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  • Brahimi voices hope to hold Geneva 2 conf. before end of 2013

    Brahimi voices hope to hold Geneva 2 conf. before end of 2013

    Date: 2013-11-06 07:44:43 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:372522

    The UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on Tuesday said that no date has been set for Syrian peace talks in Geneva, voicing hope they would start before the end of 2013. Speaking to reporters after a raft of meetings here in Geneva, ....

  • Brahimi to hold three meetings on Syria in Geneva

    Brahimi to hold three meetings on Syria in Geneva

    Date: 2013-11-05 12:10:58 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:371623

    UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi and UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman started talks with US and Russian officials on Tuesday to assess prospects of peace talks in Geneva to end the Syrian ....

  • Palestinian official: Israel responsible for prisoner's death

    Palestinian official: Israel responsible for prisoner's death

    Date: 2013-11-05 08:36:30 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:371189

    A Palestinian official is responsible for the death of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail after his suffering from cancer. "Hassan al-Turabi has suffered from medical negligence at the Israeli jail and he was moved to hospital ten days ....

  • Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli Afola prison hospital

    Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli Afola prison hospital

    Date: 2013-11-05 07:37:35 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:371101

    A Palestinian prisoner from Nablus was announced dead Tuesday morning in the Israeli Afola prison hospital. Local sources in Nablus said Hassan Abdel Halim Al-Torabi, in his twenties, breathed his last at hospital where he has recently been ....

  • Tunisia leaders deadlock on PM, talks suspended

    Tunisia leaders deadlock on PM, talks suspended

    Date: 2013-11-05 07:11:42 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:371062

    Talks between Tunisian political leaders on choosing a new prime minister have been suspended indefinitely late on Monday, Al-Arabiya news channel reported Tuesday. "We have decided to suspend the national dialogue until there are favorable ....

  • US plays facilitation role in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations - Department of State

    US plays facilitation role in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations - Department of State

    Date: 2013-11-05 06:34:13 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:371028

    Deputy Spokesperson of the US Department of State Mari Harf said that the US is playing a facilitation role in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations when it is appropriate. In a press briefing at the US Department of State late Monday, Harf said ....

  • United Nations condemns continued assassinations in Benghazi

    United Nations condemns continued assassinations in Benghazi

    Date: 2013-11-05 05:49:32 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:370990

    The United Nations Support Mission in Libya strongly condemned the series of assassinations in Benghazi that have targeted security and military officials as well as political activists and other citizens, according to the UNSMIL official website on ....

  • 9 policemen killed, injured in suicide attack in Kirkuk

    9 policemen killed, injured in suicide attack in Kirkuk

    Date: 2013-11-04 12:22:12 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:52 - ID:370179

    Nine policemen were killed and injured on Monday in a suicide attack on a police station in western Kirkuk, some 255km north of Baghdad. A security source said that a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police station in western Kirkuk, killing ....

  • Four Palestinians arrested in Al-Khalil

    Four Palestinians arrested in Al-Khalil

    Date: 2013-11-04 11:42:20 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:369742

    Four Palestinians were arrested on Monday by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil (Hebron). Security sources said that the Israeli troops also brutally beat a worker while he was on his way to work in the territory of the ....

  • Prisoners' families from Gaza visit their kins in Nafha prison

    Prisoners' families from Gaza visit their kins in Nafha prison

    Date: 2013-11-04 11:12:06 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:43 - ID:369985

    Israeli occupation forces on Monday allowed 80 members of the Palestinian prisoners families to visit their kins at "Nafha" prison. Spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Nasser Al-Najar said Monday that 80 members of ....

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