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UN chief condemns attacking civilians in S. Sudan
Date: 2014-04-17 17:39:34 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:674146
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon strongly condemned Thursday the attack on civilians and United Nations peacekeepers in the UNMISS Protection of Civilians site in Bor, capital of Jonglei State in South Sudan, the UN spokesperson said in a ....
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AL chief discusses with Canadian FM regional developments
Date: 2014-04-17 17:38:16 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:49 - ID:674143
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi discussed with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird the latest regional developments, with special emphasis on the Palestinian cause. Arabi told reporters after the meeting that "Canada has always ....
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AL chief, member of Syrian national coalition discuss Syria developments
Date: 2014-04-17 17:37:04 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:48 - ID:674141
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi met here Thursday with a senior member of the opposition Syrian National Coalition Haytham al-Maleh to discuss the latest developments of the Syrian crisis. In statements to reporters following the ....
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Contacts lost with Tunisian diplomat in Libya
Date: 2014-04-17 14:59:26 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:41 - ID:673817
A well-placed source at the Tunisian embassy in Libya said that communication was lost with one of the Tunisian diplomats in the capital Tripoli. The embassy launched an extensive search campaign for the lost diplomat, the source told MENA's ....
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Arabi receives Russian envoy
Date: 2014-04-17 12:26:51 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:673444
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi received here on Thursday special representative of the Russian foreign minister for peace process in the Middle East Sergey Vershinin. Arabi and Vershinin had talks on the preparations of the second ....
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Israel kidnaps 5 Lebanese grazers
Date: 2014-04-17 11:37:36 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:673293
The Israeli occupation forces arrested on Thursday five Lebanese nationals, including three women. They were arrested while grazing cattle inside a Shebaa farm on birders with Israel, and then they were taken into the Israeli territories. ....
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Stability in Egypt serves Palestinian interests: Hamas
Date: 2014-04-17 11:30:06 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:673277
Atallah Abu al-Sebah, Hamas's minister of prisoners' affairs, said growing stability in Egypt will serve the interests of the Palestinians. "The role of Egypt in supporting the Palestinians is historical," he told MENA. He denied Hamas, which ....
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Bouteflika seeks re-election in wheelchair
Date: 2014-04-17 11:01:53 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:673211
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, running for re-election on Thursday, cast his vote from a wheelchair at a polling station in Algiers. Shown live on television, he was accompanied by his brothers Said Bouteflika. He did not give any ....
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Kerry to discuss Ukranian, Syrian crises in Geneva
Date: 2014-04-17 09:30:56 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:672951
US Secretary of State John Kerry left for Geneva for talks on the situation in Ukraine and the Syrian crisis. Kerry will meet with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, EU foreign and security affairs official Catherine Ashton and UN-Arab ....
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UN official says looting, corpses thrown in streets of S.Sudan's Bentiu
Date: 2014-04-17 07:57:22 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:672729
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said Wednesday that the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reported looting and corpses were thrown in streets of the city of Bentiu. In a press conference, Dujarric noted that the UNMISS workers ....