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  • Arab League keen on promoting private sector role - chief

    Date: 2014-11-23 13:20:52 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:56 - ID:1391941

    CAIRO, Nov 23 (MENA) – The Arab League is keen on enlarging the role of the private sector, the engine of development in the Arab world, to reduce poverty and unemployment rates, Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi said. Addressing the ....

  • Arab League committee to draw up study on joint Arab action

    Date: 2014-11-23 12:38:04 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:47 - ID:1390813

    CAIRO, Nov 23 (MENA) - The first meeting of the open membership experts committee on preparing a study on joint Arab action organizations and Arab ministerial councils started its meetings here on Sunday with the participation of the representative ....

  • President meets Arab business delegation

    Date: 2014-11-23 12:23:48 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:1391293

    CAIRO, Nov 23 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met on Sunday a delegation of Arab investors, business owners and heads of chambers of commerce. The president said the government is drafting several bills to ease investment procedures, ....

  • Kuwaiti FM, Tajikistani counterpart probe joint ties

    Date: 2014-11-23 12:21:59 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:43 - ID:1391133

    KUWAIT CITY, Nov 23 (MENA) - Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah held Sunday an official session of consultation with Tajikistani Foreign Minister Sirodjidin Aslov who is currently paying a ....

  • Bomb attack kills 7, injures 16 near Iraq capital

    Date: 2014-11-23 11:41:33 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:36 - ID:1390761

    BAGHDAD, Nov 23 (MENA) - A car bomb blast at an outdoor market near the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad has left seven people dead, authorities say. Police officials said the deadly explosion occurred on Sunday at the busy market in the town of ....

  • Iraqi army deploys swift intervention units to fight Daesh in Ramadi

    Date: 2014-11-23 11:07:49 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:1390225

    BAGHDAD, Nov 23 (MENA) - The Iraqi army has deployed swift intervention units near Ramadi to fight against Daesh militants, Al-Arabiya satellite TV reported. Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Abadi ordered air sorties to back the operations in ....

  • Foreign Ministry warns from bids to enter Saudi Arabia with narcotics

    Date: 2014-11-23 10:00:49 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:1389909

    CAIRO, Nov 23 (MENA) – The Foreign Ministry warned citizens against trying to enter Saudi Arabia with narcotics in their possession especially large amounts of Tramadol. The Egyptian consulate in Jeddah said Sunday a number of Egyptians have ....

  • Sisi to Al-Rai Al-Am: Egypt-Sudan relations will not go backwards

    Date: 2014-11-23 08:50:32 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:1389177

    KHARTOUM, Nov 23 (MENA) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi asserted that Egypt-Sudan relations will not go backwards, noting that cooperation between the two countries could overcome several challenges whether political, economic or security ....

  • Interior Ministry in Gaza says lacks contact with Hamdallah

    Date: 2014-11-22 22:36:28 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:117 - ID:1388149

    GAZA CITY, Nov 22 (MENA) – The Interior Ministry in Gaza said on Saturday that it lacked contacts with head of the national unity government and Interior Minister Rami Hamdallah. "Security bodies in the Gaza Strip suffer from the absence of ....

  • Bahrain parl't elections turnout 51.5 pct - Min.

    Date: 2014-11-22 21:21:06 GMT - Bahrain - Arab world - SN:110 - ID:1388125

    MANAMA, Nov 22 (MENA) - Bahraini Justice Minister Khaled bin Ali Al-Khalifa on Saturday said turnout in parliamentary elections reached 51.5 percent. The minister, who is also the country's Supreme Committee for Elections head, added turnout in ....

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