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  • Israeli court sentences Sheikh Raed Salah to 8 months in prison for incitement to violence

    Israeli court sentences Sheikh Raed Salah to 8 months in prison for incitement to violence

    Date: 2014-03-04 17:04:25 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:64 - ID:590312

    Leader of the Islamic Movement's Northern Branch Sheikh Raed Salah was sentenced by an Israeli court to eight months in prison on Tuesday for a 2007 speech in which he incited to violence, Jerusalem Post reported. Salah, who also received eight ....

  • Jordanian king calls for protecting Islamic, Christian holy places in Al-Quds

    Jordanian king calls for protecting Islamic, Christian holy places in Al-Quds

    Date: 2014-03-04 16:04:40 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:55 - ID:590190

    Jordanian King Abdullah II has called for exerting further efforts to protect Islamic and Christian holy places in Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem). During a meeting with His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch in Al-Quds and Jordan on ....

  • Hague asserts UK support for Lebanon

    Hague asserts UK support for Lebanon

    Date: 2014-03-04 15:57:57 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:54 - ID:590176

    British Foreign Secretary William Hague asserted Britain's full support for Lebanon to address the difficult challenges in the coming months, which include security and combating terrorism. In a congratulatory cable sent on Tuesday to Lebanese ....

  • Libya revolutionaries on highest alert to defend national soil

    Libya revolutionaries on highest alert to defend national soil

    Date: 2014-03-04 14:48:09 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:589800

    Revolutionaries gathering in the Libyan city of Zeltin have announced a state highest alert to defend Libyan soil. The revolutionaries from 36 Libyan cities called for relocating parliament sessions from Tripoli to Zeltin, according to a ....

  • Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

    Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound

    Date: 2014-03-04 12:11:53 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:589477

    Scores of Jewish settlers broke into the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem (Al Quds) on Tuesday via the Maghareba gate under tight Israeli police protection, Palestinian sources said. They said 46 Jewish settlers, Israeli officers and students ....

  • Hamas has no Cairo office - Zahhar

    Hamas has no Cairo office - Zahhar

    Date: 2014-03-04 11:05:00 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:589276

    Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahhar has denied that his movement has any offices or conducts any activities in Egypt. "There are no Hamas headquarters or activities inside Egypt," Zahhar told MENA on the telephone Tuesday. ....

  • Kerry urges Israel to seize chances of talks with Palestinians, Iran

    Kerry urges Israel to seize chances of talks with Palestinians, Iran

    Date: 2014-03-04 06:04:21 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:588631

    US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that both Israelis and the Palestinians are faced with tough choices, noting that he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "committed" to peace, and that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ....

  • AL condemns deadly terrorist attack in China's Kunming

    AL condemns deadly terrorist attack in China's Kunming

    Date: 2014-03-03 17:00:58 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:72 - ID:588153

    The Arab League has strongly condemned a deadly terrorist attack in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan, which claimed the lives of 29 and injured 149 others. The AL General Secretariat condemned this heinous crime and voiced support ....

  • Israel releases Gazan after completing 14-year sentence

    Israel releases Gazan after completing 14-year sentence

    Date: 2014-03-03 11:48:41 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:56 - ID:587402

    The Israeli authorities Monday set free a Palestinian prisoner who completed his 14-year term. Abdallah Enshasi, from Gaza, was released today, said spokesman for the Waed Association for Prisoners said, noting that Enshasi was arrested on March ....

  • UNAMID concerned over violence in South Darfur

    UNAMID concerned over violence in South Darfur

    Date: 2014-03-03 11:45:48 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:54 - ID:587389

    The African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) expressed Monday its deep concern over reports of an escalation of violence in South Darfur over the course of the past several days. "The violence has resulted in the reported burning ....

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