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Egypt strongly condemns terrorist attack in Saudi's Qatif
Date: 2017-06-12 16:08:22 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:56 - ID:6851960
CAIRO, June 12 (MENA) – Egypt has strongly condemned a terrorist attack that targeted a security patrol in the Saudi Province of Qatif earlier on Monday, leaving a policeman dead and two others wounded. The government and people of Egypt offer ....
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AL Council warns of Israel's growing penetration of African continent
Date: 2017-06-12 15:12:27 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:50 - ID:6851620
CAIRO, June 12 (MENA) - The Arab League Council at the permanent delegates' level warned of Israel's growing penetration of the African continent. The Council, meanwhile, urged the African countries not to attend any African-Israeli conferences, ....
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Officer killed, 2 security men injured in bomb blast in Qatif
Date: 2017-06-12 10:16:33 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:6850975
RIYADH, June 12 (MENA) - The Saudi Interior Ministry announced on Monday that an officer was killed and two security personnel injured when an explosive device went off in al Masoura district in Qatif. The bomb targeted a security patrol, Saudi ....
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Daesh abduct 20 families in Mosul -- security source
Date: 2017-06-12 09:18:51 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:6850886
BAGHDAD, June 12 (MENA) - Twenty families have been abducted by Daesh fighters in Mosul where Iraqi troops are battling to take control of the last hotbed of the terrorist group in the city, according to a security source. The families were taken ....
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Cypriot president in Beirut for bilateral relations
Date: 2017-06-12 08:51:54 GMT - Cyprus - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:6850824
NICOSIA, June 12 (MENA) - Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades starts on Monday a three-day official visit to Lebanon for talks on bilateral relations and other issues of mutual interest, according to a statement by the president's ....
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Libya's Benina airport reopens after three-year halt
Date: 2017-06-12 07:20:44 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:6850759
MOSCOW, June 12 (MENA) - Benghazi's Benina aiport has seen its first flight in three years took off, according to an official source. Flights from the airport have been halted since 2014 when a nearby military conflict left the airfield ....
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Libyan army dissolves Abubaker Sadiq brigade after Gaddafi release
Date: 2017-06-12 07:19:55 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:6850741
TRIPOLI, June 12 (MENA) - The Libyan army Western Military Region Commander Idris Madi issued an order to dissolve Abubaker Sadiq brigade and distribute its elements after it released Saif al Islam Gaddafi who was held by the militant group since ....
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Qatar crisis not on Arab League meeting agenda Monday -- spokesman
Date: 2017-06-11 21:15:52 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:73 - ID:6850540
CAIRO, June 11 (MENA) - An extraordinary meeting of the Arab League at the level of permanent delegates slated for Monday will not discuss a recent decision by four Arab countries to cut off their relations with Qatar, said a spokesman of the ....
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Qaradawi writings to be withdrawn in Saudi Arabia -- minister
Date: 2017-06-11 19:15:31 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:65 - ID:6850451
RIYADH, June 11 (MENA) - All books of Yusuf Qaradawi will be withdrawn from Saudi universities and schools upon directives from Education Minister Ahmad bin Mohammed Al-Issa. The Qatar-based scholar's writings endanger the thought of students, ....
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Saif al Islam Gaddafi still wanted for trial, says top Libyan prosecutor
Date: 2017-06-11 18:38:25 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:63 - ID:6850341
TRIPOLI, June 11 (MENA) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the second son of the late deposed Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, is still wanted for trial and, in case arrested, could not be freed from jail under the amnesty law, Libyan Prosecutor-General ....