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Iraqi house speaker receives official invitation to visit Saudi Arabia

Date: 2014-11-01 18:32:49 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:128 - ID:1244885

BAGHDAD, Nov 1 (MENA) – Iraqi House Speaker Salim al-Jubouri received on Saturday an official invitation from the Saudi Shura Council speaker to visit Saudi Arabia. In a press release, Jubouri office said the invitation comes within efforts to ....

Israel police arrest suspect in extremist rabbi shooting

Date: 2014-11-01 18:29:38 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:127 - ID:1244865

RAMALLAH, Nov 1 (MENA) - Israeli Police have arrested a suspect thought to have aided the Palestinian Mu'taz Hijazi, who last Wednesday in Jerusalem attempted to assassinate extremist Israeli rabbi Yehuda Glick and later was killed by the Israeli ....

Iraqi FM meets US ambassador in Baghdad

Date: 2014-11-01 18:25:44 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:124 - ID:1244881

BAGHDAD, Nov 1 (MENA) - Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari discussed with the US Ambassador in Iraq Stuart Jones the most prominent political and security issues, and ways to boost bilateral relations, the Iraqi news agency reported on ....

Algeria pres. pays tribute to memory of National Liberation War martyrs

Date: 2014-11-01 18:23:08 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:122 - ID:1244753

ALGIERS, Nov 1 (MENA) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has paid tribute on Saturday at the Martyrs’ Square of Al-Alia cemetery in Algiers, to the memory of the martyrs of the National Liberation War (November 1, 1954), of which the Algerian ....

Palestinians injured as Israeli forces disperse protest in West Bank

Date: 2014-11-01 18:05:57 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:116 - ID:1243437

RAMALLAH, Nov 1 (MENA) - Israeli forces violently dispersed on Saturday a protest in the West Bank against the closure of a road between Sweraf and al Jabaa towns and the continued attacks on Palestine's holiest place, al-Aqsa Mosque. Scores of ....

FM receives UN top envoy to Libya

Date: 2014-11-01 18:05:01 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:115 - ID:1244493

CAIRO, Nov 1 (MENA) – Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Saturday received the top UN envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon to discuss the latest developments in the North African country. The meeting tackled efforts exerted to commence a ....

No new Corona cases, one case healed

Date: 2014-11-01 17:49:36 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:106 - ID:1244521

RIYADH, Nov 1 (MENA) - Saudi Health Ministry asserted that no new Corona cases were recorded while a Corona case was cured. In a statement Saturday, the ministry said that no new fatalities or injuries were reported. This cured case brings to ....

Kurdish community in Lebanon hold sit-in in solidarity with Kobane

Date: 2014-11-01 17:47:06 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:105 - ID:1244509

BEIRUT, Nov 1 (MENA) – Kurdish community in Lebanon staged on Saturday a sit-in in Ain El Mreisseh district of Beirut on solidarity with Syrian town of Kobane. The protesters raised banners that condemn Daesh attacks on the Syrian town. ....

Algerian PM confers with Libyan parl't speaker

Date: 2014-11-01 16:36:32 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:94 - ID:1243697

ALGIERS, Nov 1 (MENA) - Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal received Saturday visiting Speaker of Libyan Parliament Aguilah Saleh at an invitation of the Speaker of the Algerian National People's Assembly Ould Khalifa. The meeting took up ....

Arabi, UN special envoy to Libya confer on means to solve Libyan crisis

Date: 2014-11-01 16:13:38 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:88 - ID:1244085

CAIRO, Nov 1 (MENA) - Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi conferred Saturday with United Nations Special Envoy for Libya Bernardino Leon on the latest political and security developments in Libya within the framework of the efforts exerted ....