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  • Abbas orders mourning day over Mandela's death

    Abbas orders mourning day over Mandela's death

    Date: 2013-12-06 10:55:44 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:425544

    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared a day of mourning Friday following the death of South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, according to Palestinian media. Offering condolences to Mandela's family, to the ....

  • Yemeni president gets phone call from Saudi interior minister

    Yemeni president gets phone call from Saudi interior minister

    Date: 2013-12-06 09:14:29 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:425386

    Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi received a phone call from Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed Bin Naif Bin Abdulaziz who condoled with Hadi the death of 52 people in the recent terrorist attack in Yemen. The Saudi minister denounced ....

  • Cautious calm prevails in Sanaa after bloody day

    Cautious calm prevails in Sanaa after bloody day

    Date: 2013-12-06 09:06:15 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:425363

    Cautious calm prevailed in most of streets in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and most of the cities after a day that witnessed the country's worst militant assault in 18 months. On Thursday, a suicide bomber and gunmen wearing army uniforms attacked ....

  • Iran slams attack on Yemen Defense Ministry

    Iran slams attack on Yemen Defense Ministry

    Date: 2013-12-06 08:45:18 GMT - Iran - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:425313

    Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned the deadly terrorist attack on the headquarters of Yemen’s Defense Ministry in the center of the capital, Sana’a, Press TV reported Thursday. Such indiscriminate terrorist attacks, which are aimed at ....

  • Kerry says goal of talks is a viable Palestinian state

    Kerry says goal of talks is a viable Palestinian state

    Date: 2013-12-06 08:40:19 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:425304

    US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday after meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah that the goal of the talks with Israel is to reach a viable Palestinian state, WAFA reported. “The goal here for everybody is a viable ....

  • Conflict with Palestinians riskier for Israel than nuclear Iran- Diskin

    Conflict with Palestinians riskier for Israel than nuclear Iran- Diskin

    Date: 2013-12-06 08:36:59 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:425301

    Former Israeli Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin harshly criticized Thursday the Israeli government policies regarding the Palestinians, stating that "the ramifications of failed negotiations are far graver for Israel’s future than the Iranian nuclear ....

  • Syria says Turkey's backing of rebels against UN resolutions

    Syria says Turkey's backing of rebels against UN resolutions

    Date: 2013-12-06 08:19:00 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:425267

    Syria's Foreign Ministry slammed what it called "Turkish authorities' involvement in supporting the armed terrorist groups in Syria", the state-run news agency SANA reported Friday. In two identical letters addressed to the UN Secretary-General ....

  • Qaeda branch in Yemen claims responsibility for Defense Ministry attack

    Qaeda branch in Yemen claims responsibility for Defense Ministry attack

    Date: 2013-12-06 08:13:28 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:425259

    Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's media arm, al-Mallahem, claimed the attack on the Yemeni Defense Ministry that left 52 people killed, ABC News reported. The group claimed responsibility for the attack early Friday morning on its Twitter ....

  • Hague extends condolences for victims of Yemen's blasts

    Hague extends condolences for victims of Yemen's blasts

    Date: 2013-12-05 16:56:55 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:39 - ID:424677

    British Foreign Secretary William Hague extended his heart-felt condolences on his twitter account for the victims who were killed in the explosions that rocked the Yemeni capital Sanaa. The explosions left 30 persons killed, including six ....

  • Arabi warns of grave risks arising from adopting Prawer Plan

    Arabi warns of grave risks arising from adopting Prawer Plan

    Date: 2013-12-05 15:55:04 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:424566

    Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi warned of the grave risks arising from the adoption of Israel's Prawer Plan. The Plan, which was first approved by Israel's parliament, the Knesset, in 2011, would displace up to 70,000 citizens of 40 ....

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