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  • Arab League hosts meetings on population

    Arab League hosts meetings on population

    Date: 2014-03-10 12:12:16 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:601020

    The 15th meeting of heads of the national committees and councils of population began at the Arab league headquarters on Monday. As attention paid to the overpopulation issue abated in Egypt since the January 25 revolution, the National Council ....

  • Jordan denies reports over refusing to receive Bashir

    Jordan denies reports over refusing to receive Bashir

    Date: 2014-03-10 11:52:28 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:46 - ID:600965

    Jordanian authorities denied on Monday reports about the Sudanese president's request to visit Jordan for medical checkup. Sabah El Rafei, the spokesperson of Foreign Ministry, told Ammon News over the phone that Omar el Bashir did not make any ....

  • Arab League supports UAE's full sovereignty over three Gulf islands

    Arab League supports UAE's full sovereignty over three Gulf islands

    Date: 2014-03-10 10:07:02 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:600632

    The Arab League council renewed on Monday its support for the UAE's full sovereignty over the Iranian-occupied islands of Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunbs in the Gulf. The council, at the end of the 141st ministerial meeting, denounced the ....

  • AL Council welcomes member states' support of Egypt initiative to free Mideast of WMD

    AL Council welcomes member states' support of Egypt initiative to free Mideast of WMD

    Date: 2014-03-10 09:38:57 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:600553

    The Arab League Council has praised member states that sent letters to the UN chief to voice support for an Egyptian initiative to announce the Middle East a region free of weapons of mass destruction. Egypt had made the suggestion in ....

  • Hamas official denies being harassed in Egypt

    Hamas official denies being harassed in Egypt

    Date: 2014-03-10 09:35:58 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:33 - ID:600543

    Deputy head of Hamas political office Moussa Abu Marzouk denied being harassed in Egypt, but at the same time he stressed that he is among 20 other Palestinian officials whose residence permits have not been renewed by Egyptian authorities since ....

  • 2 police elements killed in Baquba

    2 police elements killed in Baquba

    Date: 2014-03-10 09:34:35 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:600319

    Two police elements were killed in an armed attack on their vehicle in northeastern Baquba, 55 kilometers east of Baghdad, a security source said Monday. A number of unidentified gunmen opened fire at the vehicle Sunday night on the main road, ....

  • Gazan families visit their jailed relatives in Israeli Nafah prison

    Gazan families visit their jailed relatives in Israeli Nafah prison

    Date: 2014-03-10 09:31:26 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:600487

    The Israeli occupation forces on Monday allowed Palestinian families from Gaza to visit their jailed relatives in Nafah desert prison. In a press statement out on Monday, a reliable source at the International Committee of the Red Cross Nasser ....

  • 220 trucks cross Karam Abu Salem into Gaza

    220 trucks cross Karam Abu Salem into Gaza

    Date: 2014-03-10 09:09:37 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:600470

    The Israeli occupation authorities on Monday allowed the entry of 220 trucks laden with goods into the Gaza Strip via the Karam Abu Salem crossing, southeast of the strip. Raed Fattouh, chairman of the coordination committee for the entry of ....

  • Assad forces 'using starvation as weapon of war'

    Assad forces 'using starvation as weapon of war'

    Date: 2014-03-10 09:06:54 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:600436

    Starvation tactics against civilians are being used as a weapon of war by the Syrian government, BBC reported Monday quoting Amnesty International. The rights group says at least 128 refugees have died at the besieged Yarmouk camp in Damascus as ....

  • Opposition taking of Syria seat decided in Doha summit -- Arab League chief

    Opposition taking of Syria seat decided in Doha summit -- Arab League chief

    Date: 2014-03-10 08:20:56 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:600351

    Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Arabi said the opposition's taking of the Syrian seat in the pan-Arab body was decided settled in the last Arab summit in Qatar. "But there are some conditions that the opposition coalition must fulfill to ....

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