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UN stress Iran's participation in Geneva 2 conference
Date: 2013-10-16 17:59:11 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:340928
The UN has underlined the importance of Iran's participation in the forthcoming Geneva 2 conference to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria, slated for in Mid November. In press statements on Wednesday, Martin Nesirky, spokesman for ....
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Sigrid Kaag to lead Syria chemical weapons mission
Date: 2013-10-16 17:55:17 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:340923
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Dutch Mideast expert Sigrid Kaag to lead the team charged with destroying Syria's chemical weapons and announced stepped up efforts to hold a peace conference on Syria in mid-November, ABC News ....
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Iran FM: Nuclear talks constructive, fruitful
Date: 2013-10-16 17:53:40 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:340918
Iran Foreign Minister Zarif said Wednesday that talks held by representatives of Iran and the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany) were constructive and fruitful, the BBC News reported. Zarif said he hoped the ....
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Hamas denies Mashaal's visit to Iran
Date: 2013-10-16 11:37:55 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:340466
Senior Hamas official Ezzat al-Rishq denied on Wednesday reports saying that Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal will visit Iran soon. On Facebook, al-Rishq said that there is no visits scheduled for Mashaal to Iran. The relation between ....
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Israel rejects request to allow Palestinians visit their next of kin during Eid
Date: 2013-10-16 11:36:00 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:340465
MP from the Islamic movement in the Israeli Knesset Taleb Abu Arar said the Israeli security ministry's decision to turn down his request to allow 1948 Arabs to visit their next of kin in Gaza Strip during Eidul Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) emanates ....
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Palestinian Foreign Ministry warns of illegal trafficking of artefacts
Date: 2013-10-16 11:32:02 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:340458
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned on Wednesday against the illegal trafficking of Palestinian artefacts and other cultural property. The warning came after the ministry found the bronze-made Apollo statute, that was discovered in Gaza Strip ....
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Governor says Flood Management Committee to resume mission after Eid vacation
Date: 2013-10-16 09:18:53 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:340238
Khartoum Governor Abdel Rahman Khder said the Flood Management Committee, tasked with offering assistance to the victims of flooding, will continue its work immediately after the end of Eidual Adha vacation. In press statements, the governor ....
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71 killed by pro-Assad forces on first day of Eid - coordination committees
Date: 2013-10-16 08:37:31 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:340198
At least 71 people were killed by Assad loyalists on the first day of Eidual Adha, according to the Syrian coordination committees. A number of mortar shells fell on al-Hama area in the capital while Qaboon neighborhood in eastern Damascus was ....
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IMF urges Yemen to help itself
Date: 2013-10-16 08:36:09 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:340195
Yemen needs to do more at home to support its political transformation because donor support is slow to develop, the International Monetary Fund said. Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi took power in 2012 after longtime President Ali ....
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US urges probe into Sudan deaths of UN peacekeepers
Date: 2013-10-16 08:25:36 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:340181
The United States on Tuesday called on Sudan to investigate the killings of three UN peacekeepers in an ambush in the troubled western Darfur region. Three Senegalese troops died, and a fourth was wounded, when a water convoy they were escorting ....
