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Lebanon's Berri adjourns presidential election session for 10th time
Date: 2014-08-12 12:57:06 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:870478
Lebanon's Speaker of the House Nabih Berri adjourned till September 2 the presidential elections session due to lack of quorum, the state's news agency reported. Nearly 30 minutes after the voting session was scheduled to begin, there were only ....
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AL welcomes Abadi assignment to form new Iraqi govt
Date: 2014-08-12 12:56:37 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:870476
Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Araby has welcomed a decision by Iraqi President Mohamed Fouad Massoum, assigning Dr Haidar al-Abadi to form the new Iraqi government. Araby, in a statement Tuesday, hoped Abadi would succeed in forming a ....
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Arabi discusses ceasefire initiative with Ban, Kerry on phone
Date: 2014-08-12 12:56:00 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:870471
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Araby telephoned UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US State Secretary John Kerry on Tuesday to discuss efforts to implement the Egyptian initiative to stop the Israeli aggression in Gaza. Araby called for ....
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US Secretary of State Kerry says image of 7-year-old boy holding severed head is 'grotesque'
Date: 2014-08-12 10:02:16 GMT - Australia - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:870083
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday described a photograph of a Sydney-born 7-year-old boy clutching the severed head of a Syrian soldier as "disturbing" and "grotesque," and called for international cooperation against the terrorist ....
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Kuwaiti FM heads for Arabia to participate in OIC meeting on Palestine
Date: 2014-08-12 09:16:24 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:869974
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah headed for Saudi Arabia Tuesday. He will lead the Kuwaiti delegation to the extraordinary meeting of the executive committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the level of ....
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US not to send fighter aircraft to Iraq: Kerry
Date: 2014-08-12 08:36:37 GMT - Australia - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:869879
The US will not send fighter aircraft to Iraq, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. Kerry urged Prime Minister-Designate Haider al-Ibadi to quickly form a national unity government to stand against ISIL militants. ....
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Hamas welcomes forming int'l investigations committee to probe into war crimes in Gaza
Date: 2014-08-12 08:34:40 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:869874
Hamas welcomed a decision on forming an international investigations committee to probe into the war crimes done in Gaza. Hamas called on the committee to swiftly starts its work, said Hamas Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. William Schabas, a ....
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Obama lauds new Iraqi prime minister, urges formation of diverse Cabinet
Date: 2014-08-12 06:41:23 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:869654
Iraq’s president nominated a new prime minister Monday to replace powerful incumbent Nouri al-Maliki, and President Obama backed the move quickly as the U.S. tried to quell a power struggle in Baghdad and counter the threat from Sunni ....
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Pentagon says airstrikes have slowed but not stopped Sunni militants
Date: 2014-08-12 06:15:31 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:869617
Four days of airstrikes have slowed the progress of Sunni militants laying siege to refugees on Mount Sinjar and advancing toward the Kurdish capital of Erbil, but the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria remains strong and on the offense, the Pentagon ....
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Liberia puts third province under Ebola quarantine
Date: 2014-08-11 16:27:25 GMT - Nigeria - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:869244
The Liberian army has put a third province under quarantine to check the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced Monday, according to Al Arabiya News on Monday. “Lofa county in the north has been quarantined ....
