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Persistent fighting kills hundreds, causes mass displacement across Libya – UN report
Date: 2014-12-23 13:45:28 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:108 - ID:1597857
GENEVA, Dec 23 (MENA) - Fighting in recent months between armed groups in western and eastern Libya, as well as in the south, has resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths, mass displacement and acute humanitarian conditions for those trapped in ....
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Kuwait-Bahrain joint commitee kicks off in Manama Wed.
Date: 2014-12-23 13:24:12 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:102 - ID:1597613
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 23 (MENA) - Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al Khaled al Sabah leaves for Manama Wednesday to lead his country's delegation to the ministerial meeting of the 8th Kuwaiti-Bahraini Joint Higher ....
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Iraqi cabinet approves 2015 budget bill
Date: 2014-12-23 13:22:38 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:101 - ID:1597921
BAGHDAD, Dec 23 (MENA) - The Iraqi Cabinet approved on Tuesday the 2015's draft federal budget and sent it to the parliament. This came after a ministerial committee, including Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, amended some articles of the budget ....
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Yemeni killed, 4 injured in southern separatists' protest
Date: 2014-12-23 13:21:40 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:100 - ID:1597477
SANAA, Dec 23 (MENA) - A Yemeni person was killed and four others injured when clashes erupted Tuesday between security forces and southern separatists in Yemen's Shabwah province. The national security forces rushed to Ataq, the main city in ....
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Algeria kills jihadist leader
Date: 2014-12-23 13:02:12 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:99 - ID:1597665
ALGIERS, Dec 23 (MENA) - The Algerian army confirmed on Tuesday that it has killed the head of the jihadist Jund al-Khilafa group that beheaded a French hostage in September, said a statement by Defense Ministry on Tuesday. The body of Abdelmalek ....
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118 new Syrians refugees cross into Jordan
Date: 2014-12-23 12:59:16 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:96 - ID:1597453
AMMAN, Dec 23 (MENA) - As many as 118 new Syrian refugees, mostly women, children and elderly people, entered Jordan over the past 48 hours, Petra News Agency quoted a national army's statement as saying on Tuesday. The Jordanian Border Guards ....
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Syria congratulates Tunisian people on pres. polls' success
Date: 2014-12-23 12:51:04 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:93 - ID:1597465
DAMASCUS, Dec 23 (MENA) - Syria has congratulated the Tunisian people on the success of presidential election, a well-placed source at Foreign Ministry told SANA on Tuesday. The Tunisian people clearly determined its choices, the source ....
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Gunmen assassinate Yemeni chieftain
Date: 2014-12-23 12:49:02 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:92 - ID:1597597
SANAA, Dec 23 (MENA) - Unidentified gunmen killed a chieftain from the Yemeni governorate of Maareb, in the capital Sanaa, on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen who used a motorbike in the assassination process opened fire on the head of ....
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Egypt amb. meets Lebanese health min.
Date: 2014-12-23 12:29:23 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:86 - ID:1597401
CAIRO, Dec 23 (MENA) - Egypt's Ambassador in Beirut Mohamed Badr El-Din met on Tuesday with Lebanese Health Minister Wael Abu Faour. They discussed ways of bolstering bilateral relations in all fields, especially in the health domain. They tackled ....
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Chief Palestinian negotiator says UN statehood vote to take place within days
Date: 2014-12-23 12:10:34 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:81 - ID:1596209
MOSCOW, Dec 23 (MENA) - A planned vote on the proposal to formally recognize Palestine as a sovereign State at the UN Security Council is to take place before year-end, Palestine’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told the Russian media. “We are ....
