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Biden, Barzani confer on US air strikes on Amirli village in northern Iraq
Date: 2014-09-01 08:42:53 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:900642
In a phone call, US Vice President Joe Biden conferred with President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Masoud Barzani on the US air strikes on Amirli village in northern Iraq and the relief supplies offered to the Iraqis there. Both sides showed ....
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Berri calls on Lebanese to unite in face of Israeli threat, takfirist terrorism
Date: 2014-09-01 08:31:47 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:900616
Terrorism is not a security matter but an issue of national significance, and there is no fear over Lebanon, for it shall return to being an oasis of democracy in the East and a garden of freedom, said Lebanon's House Speaker Nabih Berri. Berri ....
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US ambassador to Libya denies reports on embassy storming
Date: 2014-09-01 08:25:33 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:900600
US Ambassador to Libya Deborah Jones on Sunday denied reports that militants took control over the American embassy in Tripoli. In a message on Twitter, Jones said the video appeared to have been shot in at the embassy’s residential annex, ....
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Haniyeh hails Egypt role in Gaza ceasefire
Date: 2014-09-01 07:35:12 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:900507
Deputy Chief of Hamas' Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh paid tribute to the role of Egypt in reaching a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported. Haniyeh asked Egyptian intelligence officials in a phone call to push Israel ....
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12 dead in Islamist attack on Somali prison
Date: 2014-09-01 06:55:38 GMT - Somalia - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:900445
Islamist rebels dressed in government military uniforms approached the gate of a high security prison in Mogadishu on Sunday, set off a car bomb and fired their way into the building, eyewitness Farah Mohammed told CNN. They were Al-Shabaab ....
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Palestine may push for deadline to end occupation
Date: 2014-08-31 15:26:13 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:899941
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority may use the global stage of the annual General Assembly here in a few weeks to publicly demand a deadline for ending Israel’s occupation, according to his ambassador, while expecting that the ....
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New Syrian cabinet sworn in before Assad
Date: 2014-08-31 14:32:04 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:899852
Members of the new Syrian Cabinet were sworn in before President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday. The Syrian News Agency (SANA) carried the news without giving further details. ....
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AL chief leaves for Jordan
Date: 2014-08-31 14:25:33 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:899844
Arab League Secretary General Nabil El-Arabi has left for Jordan on a several-hour visit. During his stay, El-Arabi will meet Jordanian Foreign Minister Naser Judeh to discuss the Palestinian case in particular and the Middle East developments in ....
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Israel has carried out a new land confiscation in the occupied West Bank
Date: 2014-08-31 07:30:19 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:899067
The Israeli occupation army on Sunday issued a military order to confiscate thousands of donums of farmlands in Hebron and Bethlehem in southern the West Bank with the aim of expanding Ghosh Atsiyoun settlement. Surif Municipality Chief Mohammad ....
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Residents of Wershfana flee city after Fajr Libya shelling
Date: 2014-08-31 07:27:31 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:899058
Residents of Wershfana are fleeing the city due to the continuous shelling of Fajr Libya (Libyan Dawn) coalition as well as clashes between militias affiliated to tribes living in the area especially after the recent attack on Camp 27. In a ....