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SPLM-N pledges to destroy stockpiles of anti-personnel mines
Date: 2015-01-02 16:31:06 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:77 - ID:1662189
KHARTOUM, Jan 2 (MENA) - The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement- North (SPLM-N) on Friday pledged to destroy its stockpiles of anti-personnel (AP) mines seized form the Sudanese state forces over the past four years. In a statement, SPLM-N ....
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15 killed in armed attack south of Tripoli
Date: 2015-01-02 15:35:19 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:70 - ID:1661865
TRIPOLI, Jan 2 (MENA) – Fifteen people were killed, including nine army personnel and six African workers, in an armed attack on Sokna city, 600 kilometers south of Tripoli. Most of the military casualties were from the infantry battalion 168, an ....
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Iraqi army regains control over 2 Anbar neighborhoods
Date: 2015-01-02 14:29:30 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:62 - ID:1661601
BAGHDAD, Jan 2 (MENA) – The Iraqi army has regained full control over two neighborhoods of the western province of Anbar, the Ministry of Defense said Friday. The Iraqi army, backed by tribal militants, managed to flush the neighborhoods of al ....
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Sidra oil terminal fire contained
Date: 2015-01-02 14:14:07 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:59 - ID:1661593
TRIPOLI, Dec 2 (MENA) – A fire that erupted in oil tanks of the Libyan port city of Sidra was contained Friday. Flames in all tanks were put out, a Libyan official said. The tanks had been hit by a missile, setting them ablaze during clashes ....
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Power cut for 4th day in Benghazi
Date: 2015-01-02 13:02:59 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:52 - ID:1661109
TRIPOLI, Jan 2 (MENA) – Power and communication services have gone off in the Libyan city of Benghazi for the fourth day in row. According to Libya's state electricity company, the power cut happened after a main power plant had been shelled in ....
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50 Iraqis killed, injured in Fallujah shelling
Date: 2015-01-02 12:34:20 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:1660865
BAGHDAD, Jan 2 (MENA) - Twenty Iraqis, including three children and a women, were killed and 30 others injured in Fallujah after several mortar shells landed in various areas in the western Iraqi city. The injured included nine children and five ....
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Dozens flee Libyan town amid clashes between army, militia
Date: 2015-01-02 11:35:31 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:42 - ID:1660601
TRIPOLI, Jan 2 (MENA) – Dozens of people fled from the Libyan town of Bin Jawad amid fierce clashes between the Fajr Libya fighters and the army. The clashes resulted in setting fire to seven oil tanks, flames of four of them were ....
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Peshmerga troops arrest 9 kidnappers in Iraq
Date: 2015-01-02 11:25:16 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:39 - ID:1660589
BAGHDAD, Jan 2 (MENA) - Peshmerga troops arrested on Friday six militants in northern Iraq for kidnapping six people. The hijackers were arrested during an attempt to transfer the abducted to an unidentified place. The Abducted include four ....
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Araby denounces interference in Bahraini internal affairs
Date: 2015-01-02 11:13:57 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:36 - ID:1660309
CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) - Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Araby denounced the Iranian interference in the Bahraini internal affairs. In a statement on Friday, Araby considered the statements of some senior Iranian officials as a violation of ....
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Sisi to visit Kuwait on Monday
Date: 2015-01-02 11:13:24 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:35 - ID:1660173
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 2 (MENA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will visit Kuwait on Monday for talks with Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah on means of boosting bilateral relations. It will be Sisi’s first visit to the Gulf ....
