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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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. ....
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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 ....
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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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Booby-trapped car dismantled in Manama
Date: 2013-12-29 11:32:29 GMT - Bahrain - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:467474
Bahraini police dismantled on Saturday a booby-trapped car in Manama meant to be used in terrorist attacks, Manama police chief said. While searching for two stolen cars, police suspected two parked cars in two different areas, he said. Three ....
