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Netanyahu: Abbas must choose, peace with Israel or reconciliation with Hamas
Date: 2014-04-23 12:10:18 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:47 - ID:683696
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas needs to choose whether he wants peace with Israel or Hamas, because he cannot have both, The Jerusalem Post quoted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying Wednesday. Netanyahu, at the outset of ....
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Fatah hopes to announce start of forming Palestinian national unity govt
Date: 2014-04-23 12:07:56 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:46 - ID:683691
Fatah spokesman Ahmad Assaf voiced hope of announcing the start of forming a Palestinian national unity government. He further hoped that the positive atmosphere which prevailed yesterday upon the arrival of a delegation from the Palestinian ....
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Tunisian Ambassador to Libya did not receive abduction threat: source
Date: 2014-04-23 10:29:02 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:40 - ID:683386
A Libyan security source denied Wednesday media reports that Tunisian Ambassador in Tripoli Rida Bokadi was threatened of abduction. The source told MENA that these reports are completely false, calling on media and journalists to be accurate ....
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Lebanon parliament fails to elect new president
Date: 2014-04-23 10:24:17 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:39 - ID:683367
Lebanon's Chamber of Deputies failed on Wednesday to elect a new president of the country in the first round of voting with none of the candidates receiving the two-thirds majority needed to win. Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea won 48 votes ....
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Parliament questions FM over Bentiu massacre
Date: 2014-04-23 09:45:09 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:32 - ID:683227
The Sudanese parliament summoned on Wednesday Foreign Minister Ali Kerti to question him over the massacre in South Sudanese city of Bentiu that left many Sudanese nationals dead. MP Mohamed Hamad al-Azreq told Al-Rai Al-Am newspaper out ....
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Syria raids border Lebanese town
Date: 2014-04-23 09:35:57 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:683193
A Syrian warplanes fired three rockets at the border Lebanese town of Arsal, according to a statement by the Lebanese army command on Wednesday. The rocket attack against the Sunni town took place on Tuesday but no casualties are ....
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Three Katyusha rockets shelled at Kirkuk airport
Date: 2014-04-23 09:25:13 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:683157
Three rockets were fired at Kirkuk airport on Wednesday, while unknown gunmen kidnapped a civilian from southeast Kirkuk and led him to unknown location, a security source in Kirkuk said. The source made it clear that three Katyusha rockets were ....
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Obasanjo leads peace mision to S. Sudan
Date: 2014-04-23 08:22:24 GMT - Nigeria - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:682993
An African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan led by former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo started a 10-day mission to the country amidst renewed violence in parts of the country’s oil rich regions, The Punch newspaper reported ....
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Israeli gunboats open fire at Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza
Date: 2014-04-23 08:11:24 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:682960
Israeli gunboats on Wednesday opened machine gun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the western coasts of Gaza and Northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian security sources said the Israeli occupation gunboats showered the Palestinian fishing boats in ....
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ISIL's senior leader killed in Anbar blast - ministry
Date: 2014-04-23 08:02:03 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:682933
The Iraqi Defense Ministry said Tuesday that a senior leader of the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was killed when an explosive device went off in his house in Al Anbar, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad. According ....
