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  • Zahhar: Hamas relations with Iran are strategic

    Zahhar: Hamas relations with Iran are strategic

    Date: 2014-04-23 14:19:45 GMT - Iran - Arab world - SN:68 - ID:684046

    Leader with Palestinian movement Hamas Mahmoud al-Zahhar said on Wednesday that his movement's relations with Iran are strategic. In statements to the Iranian Fars news agency, he underlined the necessity of maintaining the Iranian role in the ....

  • Arab League Council convenes at level of permanent delegates on Monday

    Arab League Council convenes at level of permanent delegates on Monday

    Date: 2014-04-23 14:02:38 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:61 - ID:684013

    The Arab League Council will convene an extraordinary meeting at the level of permanent delegates on Monday to discuss current Arab conditions and some important files. The agenda of the talks will tackle in particular the latest Palestinian ....

  • Fatah says reconciliation meetings positive, fruitful

    Fatah says reconciliation meetings positive, fruitful

    Date: 2014-04-23 12:17:02 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:683723

    Fatah spokesman Fayez Abu Eita termed on Wednesday as positive and fruitful the current reconciliation meetings with Hamas, citing a tangible progress in the national unity government file. He told MENA that the meetings, that continued till a ....

  • Netanyahu: Abbas must choose, peace with Israel or reconciliation with Hamas

    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 ....

  • Fatah hopes to announce start of forming Palestinian national unity govt

    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 ....

  • Tunisian Ambassador to Libya did not receive abduction threat: source

    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 ....

  • Lebanon parliament fails to elect new president

    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 ....

  • Parliament questions FM over Bentiu massacre

    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 ....

  • Syria raids border Lebanese town

    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 ....

  • Three Katyusha rockets shelled at Kirkuk airport

    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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