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Yemeni official denies reports on mortar attack on Sanaa airport
Date: 2014-11-06 07:49:13 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:23 - ID:1275869
SANAA, Nov 6 (MENA) – General Director of Sanaa International Airport Khaled Al-Shayef denied on Thursday media reports on a mortar attack on the runway and tower of the airport. In a statement, Al-Shayef said that two unidentified persons riding ....
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US sends long-held Guantanamo prisoner to Kuwait
Date: 2014-11-06 05:35:22 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:1275341
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (MENA) - One of the longest-held prisoners at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay was sent home to Kuwait on Wednesday, the first release based on the determination of a review panel that has been re-evaluating some men ....
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US embassy in Sanaa denies pressing Saleh to leave Yemen
Date: 2014-11-05 22:31:13 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:164 - ID:1274909
SANAA, Nov 5 (MENA) – The US embassy in Sanaa denied Wednesday reports stating that it was pressuring Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave the country. In statements to the state-run Saba News Agency, the embassy asserted that ....
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US denies orders to Yemen ex-president to leave
Date: 2014-11-05 21:10:57 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:152 - ID:1274573
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (MENA) – The US State Department dismissed on Wednesday reports on threatening Yemen's deposed president with intentional sanctions if he didn't leave the country. Backers of deposed president on Wednesday accused the US ....
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1500 volunteers arrive in Iraq's Baiji district
Date: 2014-11-05 21:10:57 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:151 - ID:1273553
BAGHDAD, Nov 5 (MENA) - As many as 1,500 Iraqi volunteers have arrived in Baiji district to partake with Iraqi forces in combating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an Iraqi news agency reported Wednesday. Military reinforcements were ....
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Abbas vows more efforts to release prisoners at Israeli jails
Date: 2014-11-05 21:06:38 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:148 - ID:1274433
RAMALLAH, Nov 5 (MENA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asserted on Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) pays special attention to the release of Palestinians taken into Israeli custody. The president made the remarks during a ....
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Senior al Qaeda operative killed in US strike in Yemen - sources
Date: 2014-11-05 21:05:40 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:147 - ID:1274581
SANAA, Nov 5 (MENA) - A senior al Qaeda leader wanted by the United States and an area commander of its local affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia, were killed in US drone strikes in central Yemen overnight, the Islamist militant group said on Wednesday, ....
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Jordan to complain to UN about Israeli actions in Jerusalem
Date: 2014-11-05 19:59:09 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:141 - ID:1274149
PARIS, Nov 5 (MENA) - Jordan will lodge a formal complaint with the UN Security Council over Israeli actions in Al-Quds (East Jerusalem) and its holy sites, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Affairs said Wednesday. Jordanian ambassador ....
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Lebanon army arrests two persons over terror charges
Date: 2014-11-05 19:56:43 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:140 - ID:1274381
BEIRUT, Nov 5 (MENA) - Lebanon's army troops arrested two men in the southern city of Sidon over terrorism charges. The two suspects are accused of belonging to armed groups and plotting terrorist attacks, the Lebanese army announced in a ....
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Palestinian official calls for holding Arab conf. over Al-Aqsa
Date: 2014-11-05 19:44:22 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:136 - ID:1273845
RAMALLAH, Nov 5 (MENA) - A Palestinian official called for holding an Arab and Islamic conference for protecting Al-Aqsa Mosque. "A conference must be convened to face Israeli escalations against the mosque," Ahmed Qurei, a member of the ....
