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  • UN chief condemns attacking civilians in S. Sudan

    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 ....

  • AL chief discusses with Canadian FM regional developments

    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 ....

  • AL chief, member of Syrian national coalition discuss Syria  developments

    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 ....

  • Contacts lost with Tunisian diplomat in Libya

    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 ....

  • Arabi receives Russian envoy

    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 ....

  • Israel kidnaps 5 Lebanese grazers

    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. ....

  • Stability in Egypt serves Palestinian interests: Hamas

    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 ....

  • Bouteflika seeks re-election in wheelchair

    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 ....

  • Kerry to discuss Ukranian, Syrian crises in Geneva

    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 ....

  • UN official says looting, corpses thrown in streets of S.Sudan's Bentiu

    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 ....

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