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  • Bouteflika chosen to run for Tunisian presidential polls: NLF

    Bouteflika chosen to run for Tunisian presidential polls: NLF

    Date: 2013-10-26 18:05:03 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:40 - ID:356014

    Amar Saidani, the Chairman of the Tunisian National Liberation Front party, said that his front officially chose Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for the anticipated presidential elections in 2014. "He is our candidate, and there ....

  • Kuwait vows to help Africa meet development aspirations

    Kuwait vows to help Africa meet development aspirations

    Date: 2013-10-26 10:29:08 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:355280

    Kuwait is keen on helping the African continent materialize the development aspirations of its people through a broad partnership with all African nations, Kuwait's mission to the United Nations said as reported by KUNA. "Kuwait had never and ....

  • Sleiman warns Eastern Christians of allying with oppressive regimes

    Sleiman warns Eastern Christians of allying with oppressive regimes

    Date: 2013-10-26 09:49:41 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:355196

    Eastern Christians cannot possibly seek a better future through foreign military protection or the so-called minority coalitions, says Lebanese President Michel Sleiman. They cannot also back oppressive regimes because in so doing they will be ....

  • Clashes break out in Jenin, suffocation cases reported

    Clashes break out in Jenin, suffocation cases reported

    Date: 2013-10-26 09:44:22 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:355182

    A number of Palestinians suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation as a result of clashes with Israeli forces early Saturday in the village of Yabad southwest of Jenin, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported. Witnesses said that the ....

  • UN official calls for setting up safe zone inside Syria

    UN official calls for setting up safe zone inside Syria

    Date: 2013-10-26 09:37:31 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:355164

    UN Special Envoy for the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559 Terje Roed-Larsen called on the UN Security Council to set up a humanitarian zone inside Syria to provide aid and safe haven for those affected by the ongoing ....

  • Syrian aivists say warplanes raid cities

    Syrian aivists say warplanes raid cities

    Date: 2013-10-26 09:35:12 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:355161

    Warplanes launched on Saturday intensive raids in different cities in eastern and western Gota and Medmah Sham in Damascus countryside, according to Syrian activists. The activists captured photos of warplanes shelling Zamalka, Irbeen, Maliha ....

  • Syria Kurds take Iraq border post from jihadists

    Syria Kurds take Iraq border post from jihadists

    Date: 2013-10-26 08:10:45 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:355014

    Kurdish militants seized a crossing on the eastern border with Iraq early Saturday following three days of clashes with jihadists belonging to an al-Qaeda affiliated group, said Al-Arabiya television. The Kurdish fighters “took control of the ....

  • 4 killed in bloody clashes in Tripoli Friday night

    4 killed in bloody clashes in Tripoli Friday night

    Date: 2013-10-26 08:05:07 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:354967

    Four people were killed in bloody clashes between Sunnis and Alawites in Tripoli in northern Lebanon Friday night. Clashes were fierce and gunmen even attacked Lebanese military centers after three died in the Alawite Jabal Mohsen area. The ....

  • Fatah denounces Liberman's statements on Abbas

    Fatah denounces Liberman's statements on Abbas

    Date: 2013-10-26 07:33:48 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:354970

    Fatah movement denounced statements by a former Israeli foreign minister against President Mahmoud Abbas as a dangerous incitement. Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, was quoted in Israeli media ....

  • Israel occupies Jenin house, turns it into a military base

    Israel occupies Jenin house, turns it into a military base

    Date: 2013-10-26 07:23:39 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:354965

    Israeli forces took control over an inhabited Palestinian house and turned it into a military base in the village of Yabad, near Jenin, in northern West Bank on Friday, Ma'an News Agency reported. Two Israeli military vehicles raided the house of ....

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