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  • Telecommunications service restored in Sanaa after 12-hour hiatus

    Date: 2014-09-19 13:13:47 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:48 - ID:970373

    SANAA, Sept 19 (MENA) – The telecommunications and internet service was restored in Sanaa after a 12-hour halt. Yemeni officials ascribed the telecommunications disruption to the shelling of the state-run Public Telecommunications Corporation ....

  • Yemen's defense minter visits shelled TV building

    Date: 2014-09-19 13:12:33 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:47 - ID:970357

    SANAA, Sept 19 (MENA) - Yemen's Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed on Friday paid a visit to the Yemeni television building, which was shelled by the Houthis on Thursday. The minister was inspecting troops who were deployed at the building ....

  • Yemeni Security Committee denies Houthi control over Sanaa districts

    Date: 2014-09-19 13:08:44 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:46 - ID:970341

    SANAA, Sept 19 (MENA) - Yemen's Supreme Security Committee has denied reports that Houthis are in control of a number of neighborhoods in northern Sanaa. Such reports are baseless and unfounded, a well-placed security source said. The source ....

  • Lebanon's PM follows up latest developments in Arsal after attack

    Date: 2014-09-19 12:32:48 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:970093

    BEIRUT, Sept 19 (MENA) – Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam is following up the latest developments in Arsal after the bombing of a military truck in the border area with Syria. Two soldiers were killed and five others wounded in the blast which ....

  • AL urges Sudanese parties to accelerate national dialogue

    Date: 2014-09-19 12:23:52 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:43 - ID:969913

    KHARTOUM, Sept 19 (MENA) - The Arab League (AL) Envoy to Sudan Salah Halima called Friday on all Sudanese parties to accelerate and activate the national dialogue to achieve stability and development in the country. In press statements, Halima ....

  • 21 persons killed, injured in blast in central Kirkuk

    Date: 2014-09-19 12:09:20 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:41 - ID:969909

    BAGHDAD, Sept 19 (MENA) – A booby-trapped motorcycle went off near a shop selling weapons in in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, A security source said on Friday. The blast led to the killing of eight persons and the injury of 13 others, ....

  • Slain Egyptian national in Benghazi Christian: security source

    Date: 2014-09-19 11:46:06 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:969585

    TRIPOLI, Sept 19 (MENA) – An Egyptian national who was killed Thursday at his workplace in Benghazi is Christian, said a well-placed security source Friday. The slain national was shot dead when unidentified gunmen opened fire at his shop on ....

  • ALC adopts Egypt's draft maintaining rights of workers, employers

    Date: 2014-09-19 11:06:32 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:968981

    CAIRO, Sept 19 (MENA) - The 41st session of the Arab Labor Conference has approved a draft floated by Egypt to maintain the rights of workers and employers in security disorder-stricken countries. The Egyptian decision underlined the necessity to ....

  • Terrorists arrested for financing militant groups in Tunisia's Jebel ech Chambi: min.

    Date: 2014-09-19 10:44:40 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:969089

    TUNIS, Sept 19 (MENA) – Tunisian police have arrested several terrorists for their involvement in providing terrorist groups hidden in Jebel ech Chambi with weapons, US-funded Radio Sawa reported on Friday. The arrested are accused of bringing ....

  • MAP welcomes MENA's office in Rabat

    Date: 2014-09-19 07:54:18 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:968157

    RABAT, Sept 19 (MENA) - Editing manager of the central desk of Morocco's official news agency (MAP) Rashid Mamouni welcomed a decision by MENA to open an office in Morocco. He said MENA office will help boost bilateral media ties. Mamouni made ....

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