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  • Obama: Threat from Iraq militants could grow

    Obama: Threat from Iraq militants could grow

    Date: 2014-06-23 08:03:11 GMT - USA - International - SN:20 - ID:792756

    Al-Qaida-inspired militants who have violently seized territory in Iraq could grow in power and destabilize other countries in the region, President Barack Obama said. The Iraqi public will ultimately reject the Islamic State of Iraq and the ....

  • Corona death toll in Saudi Arabia hits 291

    Corona death toll in Saudi Arabia hits 291

    Date: 2014-06-23 08:00:58 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:792753

    The number of Corona-virus deaths has hit 291 of 707 infected cases in Saudi Arabia, said the Saudi health ministry on Sunday. Two persons died and a new case were reported within the past 24 hours, said the ministry in a statement on ....

  • Hard evidence Hamas behind kidnappings - Netanyahu

    Hard evidence Hamas behind kidnappings - Netanyahu

    Date: 2014-06-23 07:44:12 GMT - Israel - International - SN:17 - ID:792714

    Israel has unequivocal evidence that Hamas is behind the June 12 kidnapping of three Israeli settlers, and is passing that evidence on to several other countries before releasing it publicly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ahead of ....

  • Trial of 40 MB members in Qena to be resumed Monday

    Trial of 40 MB members in Qena to be resumed Monday

    Date: 2014-06-23 07:41:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:792583

    Qena Criminal Court is scheduled to resume Monday the trial of 40 Muslim Brotherhood elements, including four leaders, to hear all witnesses. The defendants were remanded in custody on charges of premeditated murder, inciting violence and ....

  • 7 persons killed, three injured in Khartoum blast

    7 persons killed, three injured in Khartoum blast

    Date: 2014-06-23 07:40:02 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:792701

    Seven people, including a foreigner, were killed and three others injured in an explosion that hit a liquid Oxygen factory in Khartoum. The blast claimed the life of the factory's director. The dead bodies were taken to a morgue and the ....

  • Intifada greatest phenomenon in history: Haniyeh

    Intifada greatest phenomenon in history: Haniyeh

    Date: 2014-06-23 07:37:45 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:792692

    Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh hailed protests against Israel in the occupied West Bank. "The Palestinian Intifada (uprising) is the greatest phenomenon in the contemporary history," Haniyeh said in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah in first remarks on ....

  • 350,000 displaced in Pakistan's Waziristan

    350,000 displaced in Pakistan's Waziristan

    Date: 2014-06-23 07:36:27 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:14 - ID:792688

    Some 350,000 people have been displaced since the start of an army offensive against militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan a week ago, officials said. Long lines of buses and lorries are reported waiting in intense heat for security clearance ....

  • Naval forces, border guards rescue 11 persons from drowning

    Naval forces, border guards rescue 11 persons from drowning

    Date: 2014-06-23 07:32:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:792681

    Naval forces and border guards have managed to rescue 11 citizens who were on board of a boat in Ras Gharib in Suez, from drowning. "After we received appeals from citizens about the disappearance of a boat with 11 persons on board, we contact ....

  • Canada Orsainville airlift inmates recaptured in Montreal

    Canada Orsainville airlift inmates recaptured in Montreal

    Date: 2014-06-23 07:25:20 GMT - Canada - International - SN:11 - ID:792660

    Canadian police have recaptured three prisoners who escaped by helicopter from a jail outside Quebec City earlier this month, the BBC News reported. Police said they were detained at a home in Montreal in the early hours of Sunday and more ....

  • Terrorism will not hinder 2015 elections - Nigerian President

    Terrorism will not hinder 2015 elections - Nigerian President

    Date: 2014-06-23 07:21:30 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:10 - ID:792651

    Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday assured that the challenges of terrorism and insecurity would not curtail the conduct of a free, fair and credible general elections in 2015, local media reported. The President, who delivered a ....

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