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Palestinian PM slams Israel for administrative detention against prisoners
Date: 2014-12-23 15:01:48 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:1598321
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has slammed Israel for administrative detention against the Palestinians prisoners. Israel is the only country worldwide that practices administrative detention against the Palestinian prisoners in ....
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Hamas slams draft resolution submitted to UNSG by Palestinian authority
Date: 2014-12-23 14:58:25 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:43 - ID:1599281
Hamas has slammed a draft resolution submitted by the Palestinian Authority to the UN's Security Council to establish the Palestinian state. The move "does not represent the Palestinian people and has no national cover," Spokesman for Hamad Sami ....
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3 Iraqis killed, 11 wounded in two attacks
Date: 2014-12-23 14:54:04 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:42 - ID:1599253
Three Iraqis were killed and 11 others injured when two explosions rocked the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad Tuesday. A roadside bomb exploded as a patrol was passing by the rural district of Taji, killing a serviceman and wounding five others. ....
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AL chief praises Egypt-Qatar reconciliation
Date: 2014-12-23 14:47:59 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:39 - ID:1599117
Arab League chief Nabil el Araby has praised bids to mend fences and to usher in a fresh stage of Egyptian-Qatari relations. In press statements, Araby underlined the importance of the Egyptian-Qatari reconciliation. The reconciliation will ....
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Iraqi cabinet approves 2015 budget bill
Date: 2014-12-23 14:40:37 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:1599021
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 bill. ....
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Libyan students storm their country's embassy in Ankara
Date: 2014-12-23 14:21:43 GMT - Turkey - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:1598541
A group of Libyan students stormed the Libyan embassy in the Turkish capital of Ankara, claiming they were not paid their scholarship by the embassy. Some 150 students rallied outside the embassy compound and then forced their way inside after ....
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Algeria kills jihadist leader
Date: 2014-12-23 13:58:33 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:33 - ID:1598509
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 Gouri, who claimed ....
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Yemeni killed, 4 injured in southern separatists' protest
Date: 2014-12-23 13:51:24 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:32 - ID:1598381
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 Shabwa province, to ....
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Satellite images show 290 Syrian cultural sites damaged by civil war, UN agency says
Date: 2014-12-23 12:52:38 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:1597761
Satellite imagery shows that at least 290 cultural heritage sites in Syria have been damaged by the country's civil war, a U.N. agency said Tuesday. Syria is home to archaeological treasures that span thousands of years of written history, from ....
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Saudi CP meets Lebanon's Mufti
Date: 2014-12-23 12:39:46 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:1597661
Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud held a meeting with Lebanon's Grand Mufti Abdel Latif Deria and his accompanying delegation. The meeting tackled a number of issues of mutual concern. ....