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Army leader killed, 4 guards injured in Baquba explosion
Date: 2014-03-08 13:32:53 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:596577
An Iraqi army commander was killed and four of his guards were injured in a bomb explosion that targeted his convoy in north Baquba, 55 km east to the Iraqi capital, on Saturday. An explosive charge planted on the side of the road went off as the ....
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AL chief, South Sudanese FM discuss boosting bilateral cooperation
Date: 2014-03-08 12:01:11 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:38 - ID:597054
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi held talks Saturday with South Sudan's Foreign Minister Barnaba Benjamin at the AL premises. During the meeting, the two sides discussed ways of boosting cooperation ties between the pan-Arab body and ....
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Egypt takes rapid steps toward establishing civil state - Lebanese FM
Date: 2014-03-08 11:45:12 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:597010
Egypt took rapid steps toward establishing a civil state, said Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil. Following his meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Nabil Fahmy on Saturday, Bassil said that he came to visit Egypt as the first Lebanese ....
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Saudi Arabia to host Asia media summit in May
Date: 2014-03-08 08:57:27 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:596542
Saudi Arabia will host the Asia Media Summit, which will be organized by the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) and hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Information and the General Commission for Audiovisual Media, in May. ....
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97 killed in Syria
Date: 2014-03-08 07:37:00 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:596396
Ninety-seven persons were killed across Syria on Friday, including 25 in Aleppo, Idlib and Daraa by regime shells. Clashes erupted between the Free Syrian Army and regime army in Homs, Sky News TV quoted sources in the opposition as saying. ....
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MB slams Saudi decision designating it as terrorist group
Date: 2014-03-08 07:25:34 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:596383
The Muslim Brotherhood has slammed a Saudi decision to designate it as a terrorist group. In a statement on Friday, the group said the decision hurts it. "This new stance of the Saudi Arabia is fully contradictory to the course of its ....
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Al Qaeda-linked group says its operations do not target ordinary Shiites
Date: 2014-03-08 07:24:22 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:596377
The al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades said on Friday that its operations do not target ordinary people of the Shiite doctrine or other denominations. In a statement on Twitter, the group said that an error took place in a twin bomb attack ....
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Low ranking officer shot dead in Benghazi
Date: 2014-03-08 07:21:00 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:596373
Unidentified militants gunned down a low ranking officer of the military police in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday. The armed men targeted the non-commissioned officer identified as Abdel Karim al-Manfa outside a gasoline station on the ....
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Militants fire at Lebanese army camp
Date: 2014-03-08 07:17:24 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:596362
Militants fired at a Lebanese army camp on Friday, but no casualties have been reported. Five gunmen opened fire at the camp of the Lebanese army in Baalbek in northeastern Lebanon without causing any casualties, a statement issued by the ....
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Jordan’s King meets John Kerry on Palestinian-Israeli peace talks
Date: 2014-03-07 19:52:22 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:596105
Jordan's King Abdullah II conferred with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is here on a brief visit, on the latest developments on the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. The meeting focused on efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East and ....
