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Arab foreign ministers arrive in Cairo for AL meeting on Palestine

Date: 2018-02-01 12:36:12 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:35 - ID:7222044

CAIRO, Feb 1 (MENA) - Arab foreign ministers have been arriving in Cairo to resume talks at the Arab League (AL) later on Thursday on the transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem Ministers who have arrived here include Algerian, ....

Stability is being restored to Aden, says Arab coalition

Date: 2018-02-01 11:01:14 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:7221708

RIYADH, Feb 1 (MENA) - The Arab Coalition said on Thursday that stability is being restored to Aden, as a high-ranking military delegation from Saudi Arabia and the UAE arrived in the city to enforce its calls for a ceasefire between the warring ....

Number of Daesh militants killed in shelling in Deir ez Zor

Date: 2018-02-01 09:28:59 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:7221551

DAMASCUS, Feb 1 (MENA) - A number of Daesh militants were killed in a raid launched by the international coalition on some Daesh hotbeds in Hajin town in Deir ez Zor countryside, Syrian activists said on Thursday. Fierce clashes took place ....

Yemeni forces control Black Hill in Taiz

Date: 2018-02-01 08:36:41 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:7221459

ADEN, Feb 1 (MENA) - Yemen's legitimate forces controlled the Black Hill in southern Taiz governorate after fierce clashes with the Houthi militias, local sources said on Thursday. Sky News reported this without giving further details. The ....

US extends temporary protected status for Syrians for 18 months

Date: 2018-02-01 06:37:45 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:7221352

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (MENA) - The Trump administration said that it would allow about 7,000 Syrians to remain in the United States for at least another 18 months under protected status as civil war rages in their native country. In a statement, US ....

Tunisia, France sign eight co-operation agreements

Date: 2018-01-31 20:57:46 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:105 - ID:7221219

TUNIS, Jan 31 (MENA) - Eight co-operation agreements were signed by Tunisia and France at a ceremony held Wednesday evening at the Carthage Palace, under the chairmanship of Tunisian President Beji Caïd Essebsi and his French counterpart Emmanuel ....

Bahrain, UK mull security cooperation

Date: 2018-01-31 20:44:40 GMT - Bahrain - Arab world - SN:104 - ID:7221236

LONDON, Jan 31 (MENA) - Bahrain's Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa met British Home Secretary Amber Rudd, as part of his official visit to the UK. Bahrain's Ambassador to the UK, Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, and ....

Lebanon PM lambastes Israeli defense min. remarks on offshore energy block

Date: 2018-01-31 20:25:02 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:103 - ID:7221030

BEIRUT, Jan 31 (MENA) – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad El Hariri has lashed out at Israeli defense minister’s remarks on Block 9 located in the Lebanese territorial waters, saying they came as part of Israel's "expansionist and settler policies aimed ....

Iraqi PM receives message from President Sisi

Date: 2018-01-31 18:16:48 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:95 - ID:7221091

BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (MENA) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi received on Wednesday a written message from President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in which he asserted support for the relations between Cairo and Baghdad in all fields. The message was ....

OIC chief expresses serious concern at mounting insecurity in Mali

Date: 2018-01-31 16:07:14 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:87 - ID:7220935

RIYADH, Jan 31 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Yousef al Othaimeen has expressed serious concern at the spate of terrorist attacks and growing insecurity in Mali. Othaimeen denounced the separate ....