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Egypt FM makes contacts with Abbas, Kerry on Gaza
Date: 2014-08-01 17:36:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:86 - ID:853679
CAIRO, Aug 1 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri made on Friday intensive contacts with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State John Kerry on the deteriorating situation in Gaza, the foreign ministry's spokesman ....
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Egypt concerned over latest developments in Gaza
Date: 2014-08-01 17:25:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:85 - ID:853680
CAIRO, August 1 (MENA) - Egypt is following up with great interest and concern the recent developments in Gaza, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. Egypt calls on the conflict parties to fully commit to the humanitarian truce terms that have already ....
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UN chief blames Hamas for breaking cease-fire
Date: 2014-08-01 16:54:02 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:84 - ID:853655
NEW YORK, Aug 1 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has blamed Hamas for violating a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza and is demanding the immediate and unconditional release of an Israeli soldier reportedly captured after it started, The ....
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247 cross Rafah terminal
Date: 2014-08-01 16:42:00 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:853625
RAFAH, Egypt, Aug 1 (MENA) - As many as 247 people crossed the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Friday, an official source with the terminal said. The source said that 230 people have arrived in Egypt from Gaza, while 17 others ....
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UK probes Israeli soldier nationality
Date: 2014-08-01 16:26:14 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:853637
LONDON, August 1 (MENA) - The UK Foreign Office is "looking into" reports an Israeli soldier missing in Gaza has dual UK-Israeli nationality, the BBC reported on Friday. The Israeli military said it suspected the soldier - named as 2nd Lieutenant ....
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Two corpses moved to Gaza via Rafah crossing
Date: 2014-08-01 16:13:24 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:81 - ID:853621
CAIRO, Aug 1 (MENA) - The bodies of two Palestinians, an old man and a child, were moved to the Gaza Strip via Rafah terminal, a well-placed source said Friday. The source added that two other corpses could not be sent to the enclave and were ....
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Egypt closes Rafah terminal before deadline due to heavy Israeli shelling
Date: 2014-08-01 16:08:58 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:80 - ID:853617
RAFAH, Egypt, August 1 (MENA) – The Egyptian authorities were forced to close the Rafah crossing on Friday ahead of deadline due to the heavy Israeli shelling on the Gaza Strip. Official sources said the closure took place in the afternoon after ....
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Bin Laden family buys quarry of world’s most sought-after marble
Date: 2014-08-01 16:06:54 GMT - United Kingdom - Economy - SN:79 - ID:853618
LONDON, Aug 1 (MENA) - The quarry which produced the stone for London's Marble Arch and Michelangelo's masterpiece David has been bought by Osama Bin Laden's family for £35million, the Daily Mail reported on Friday. The Al Qaeda chief, who died ....
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Tunisian party rejects closure of border with Libya
Date: 2014-08-01 16:04:42 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:78 - ID:853602
TUNIS, Aug 1 (MENA) - President of "Al-Aman" Party Lazhar Bali has categorically rejected the closure of the Tunisian-Libyan border regardless of the reasons. In a seminar, he said that those who call for the closure of the border do not ....
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US allocates $ 185m to help feeding hungry Syrians
Date: 2014-08-01 16:01:58 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:853588
CAIRO, Aug 1 (MENA) – The United States government is providing an additional US $185 million to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to help feed the hungry in the fourth year of Syria’s protracted humanitarian crisis. Of that amount, US$122 ....
