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Police foil attempt to blow up tomb of former president Habib Bourguiba
Date: 2013-10-30 11:32:08 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:38 - ID:361945
The Tunisian police said Wednesday that they foiled an attempt to blow up the tomb of Habib Bourguiba, the first President of the Republic of Tunisia from July 25, 1957 to November 7, 1987, Al-Arabiya news channel reported, giving no further ....
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Assad meets UN/Arab League envoy over Geneva 2 conference
Date: 2013-10-30 10:13:57 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:33 - ID:361917
Syrian President Bashar Assad met on Wednesday with UN/Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi for talks on preparations for Geneva 2 conference on Syria, slated November 23-24. The conference, to be attended by the Syrian opposition, aims at finding a ....
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Israeli PM approves 1,500 new housing units in East Jerusalem
Date: 2013-10-30 09:47:22 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:361845
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu approved tenders for the construction of 1,500 additional housing units in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported Wednesday. He said the current owners of ....
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Assad forces shell two districts in Damascus
Date: 2013-10-30 09:34:09 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:361808
The Assad forces attacked Yarmouk and Assali districts of Damascus by warplanes and artillery on Wednesday at a time nearly 2,000 locals were finally allowed to leave besieged Damascus suburb of Moadamiya. Supplies in Moadamiya had been running ....
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Israel allows 300 trucks loaded with goods into Gaza Strip
Date: 2013-10-30 09:29:12 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:23 - ID:361799
Israeli occupation forces allowed the entry of 300 trucks laden with commodities into the Gaza Strip via Karam Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing. In a press release on Wednesday, Head of the Coordination Committee for entry of goods in the Gaza ....
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Abbas: No agreement with Israel untill all Palestinian prisoners released
Date: 2013-10-30 09:17:36 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:361752
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made it clear that there will be no agreement with Israel as long as there are Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Addressing a crowd on Wednesday on the occasion of the release of the second batch of ....
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Syrian Deputy prime minister fired for meeting US diplomat
Date: 2013-10-30 08:53:33 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:361681
Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil met with US Ambassador Robert Ford and appears to have now lost his job because the meeting was unauthorized by the Assad regime, the ABC News reported Tuesday. A U.S. official confirmed to ABC News that ....
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Yemen denies reports on attack on US embassy in Sanaa
Date: 2013-10-30 08:37:19 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:361647
Yemen has denied reports claiming that an attack took place near the US embassy in Sanaa, a well-paced security source said. In a press statement on Tuesday, the source said the sound heard in the area was that of fireworks displayed at a wedding ....
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Army officer injured in bombing in Baghdad
Date: 2013-10-29 16:32:05 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:47 - ID:360905
An Iraqi military officer was injured in a bomb blast in northern Baghdad. The explosive device was installed to a government vehicle, a security source said, adding that it went off earlier Tuesday as he was passing in Qaha neighborhood in ....
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FP: Baghdad burning ... (It's kind) of our fault
Date: 2013-10-29 16:30:00 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:46 - ID:360903
Two years after the last American combat troops left Iraq, the country is in flames. The violence raging there poses a serious policy challenge for the Obama administration -- and offers a cautionary tale of what could happen in Afghanistan if all ....
