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  • Mikati welcomes Saudi military aid to Lebanon

    Mikati welcomes Saudi military aid to Lebanon

    Date: 2013-12-30 08:28:34 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:469037

    Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati welcomed a Saudi aid to be provided for the Lebanese army. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, disclosed Sunday the Saudi Kingdom's intention to extend a three billion US dollars aid to the Lebanese Army, ....

  • Ban Ki-Moon urges Lebanon, Israel to exercise maximum restraint along Blue Line

    Ban Ki-Moon urges Lebanon, Israel to exercise maximum restraint along Blue Line

    Date: 2013-12-30 07:52:54 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:468976

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon strongly condemned a rocket attack on Israel from southern Lebanon that occurred Sunday. In a statement, the secretary-general appreciated the cooperation of both the Lebanese and Israeli authorities with ....

  • Lebanese MP urges Mufti to resign

    Lebanese MP urges Mufti to resign

    Date: 2013-12-29 18:43:39 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:74 - ID:468586

    Lebanese Future bloc MP Khaled Zahraman has urged Lebanon’s Mufti Mohamed Rashid to resign to ward off sedition. He was commenting on Rashid’s siege that occurred at a mosque while attending the funeral of a martyr who was killed during a Beirut ....

  • Saudi provides $3 bln military aid to Lebanon: Suleiman

    Saudi provides $3 bln military aid to Lebanon: Suleiman

    Date: 2013-12-29 17:40:46 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:71 - ID:468484

    Lebanese President Michel Suleiman announced on Sunday that Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz decided to provide Lebanon with military aid worth 3 billion dollars. Suleiman hailed the Saudi move extended appreciation to the Saudi King, saying ....

  • Trapped Lebanese mufti freed

    Trapped Lebanese mufti freed

    Date: 2013-12-29 17:29:10 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:69 - ID:468452

    Lebanese Mufti Mohammed Qabani, who has been trapped for two hours by protesters during the funeral of a victim of the Friday bombing, has been released by the Lebanese army. The Lebanese army secured the release of the mufti, who was trapped ....

  • Syria chemical disarmament progressing steadily – Ban Ki-moon

    Syria chemical disarmament progressing steadily – Ban Ki-moon

    Date: 2013-12-29 13:08:47 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:467900

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has praised steady progress in Syria's chemical disarmament despite a "limited delay" in moving the most dangerous chemical warfare agents out the country by the December 31 deadline, Voice of Russia ....

  • South Sudan gov't restores Bor, Bentiu from rebels

    South Sudan gov't restores Bor, Bentiu from rebels

    Date: 2013-12-29 12:52:19 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:50 - ID:467855

    South Sudan government forces restored the cities of Bor and Bentiu from the rebels led by former vice president of South Sudan Riek Machar, a South Sudan military source said. According to the Khartoum newspaper Akhbar al-Youm, out Sunday, the ....

  • Lebanese party leader attacked in Tripoli

    Lebanese party leader attacked in Tripoli

    Date: 2013-12-29 12:26:43 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:467791

    Orthodox Party of the Levant leader Rodrigue Khoury was attacked in the northern city of Tripoli late Saturday night. Two masked men attacked Khoury—who had arrived to Tripoli with a number of his friends—beat him, and stabbed him in the neck. ....

  • Extremist Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque precincts

    Extremist Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque precincts

    Date: 2013-12-29 12:08:41 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:40 - ID:467752

    Jewish settlers on Sunday stormed the precincts of Al-Aqsa Mosque from Bab El-Maghreba gate under tight security measures from the Israeli occupation forces. Rabbi Yehudah Glick led one of the groups which stormed the precincts of the holy mosque ....

  • Qaraqei: Israel announces names of Palestinian prisoners to be released Tuesday

    Qaraqei: Israel announces names of Palestinian prisoners to be released Tuesday

    Date: 2013-12-29 12:02:44 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:38 - ID:467730

    Palestinian Minister of Prisoners Issa Qaraqei said Sunday that Israel announced the list of names of the Palestinian prisoners expected to be released at dawn Tuesday as part of the 3rd batch of prisoners who have spent long term jail sentences in ....

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