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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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, ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....