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  • Juba's ambassador to Khartoum: Salva Kiir to visit Sudan soon

    Date: 2014-10-05 14:56:27 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:57 - ID:1070761

    KHARTOUM, Oct 5 (MENA) - Juba's Ambassador to Khartoum Mayan Dot Wall revealed that South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit will visit Sudan soon. The visit aims at boosting mutual cooperation between the two nations and will provide a chance ....

  • UAE president greets Sisi on October war victory anniversary

    Date: 2014-10-05 14:46:17 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:56 - ID:1070905

    ABU DHABI, Oct 5 (MENA) - UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nuhayyan sent a cable of greetings to his Egyptian counterpart Adel Fattah El Sisi on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of 6th of October war victory. Sheikh Khalifa voiced ....

  • Saudi Arabia presses ahead with combating terrorism, extremism, says king

    Date: 2014-10-05 14:09:51 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:54 - ID:1070697

    RIYADH, Oct 5 (MENA) - Saudi King Abdullah said Saudi Arabia will press ahead with combating extremists. He lauded Saudi security forces for their commendable services in thwarting attempts by extremists to undermine security and stability in the ....

  • Gunmen attack Hezbollah site on borders with Syria

    Date: 2014-10-05 14:05:07 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:52 - ID:1070541

    BEIRUT, Oct 5 (MENA) - An attack was launched Sunday on a Hezbollah site on the Lebanese-Syrian borders near Assal al-Ward town. Casualties were reported among the attackers. Elements of Hezbollah fighters fired back at the attackers who tried ....

  • 40 Islamist fighters killed in Benghazi

    Date: 2014-10-05 13:29:16 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:47 - ID:1070481

    TRIPOLI, Oct 5 (MENA) - Forty members of Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries were killed on Sunday in clashes with Hafter troops. Benghazi has been the scene of fierce clashes between Hafter forces and armed militias and Islamist groups ....

  • Relatives of Lebanese hostage threaten to block airport road

    Date: 2014-10-05 12:50:02 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:1070217

    BEIRUT, Oct 5 (MENA) - Relatives of the captive Lebanese policeman Pierre Geagea blocked a Bekaa Valley road Sunday and threatened to shut down Beirut’s vital airport road over the government's failure to secure his release. “Today we closed the ....

  • UAE astonished at U.S. Vice President's statement on states financing terrorism

    Date: 2014-10-05 10:46:04 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:1069501

    ABU DHABI, Oct 5 (MENA) - The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed its astonishment at the statement made by the U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden on the U.S. allies and the financing of terrorism, WAM News Agency reported. Minister of ....

  • Nazouri, Hafter visit wounded soldiers in Benghazi hospital

    Date: 2014-10-05 09:26:08 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:1068945

    TRIPOLI, Oct 5 (MENA) –Libyan Chief of Staff Abdel-Razeq al-Nazouri, Major General Khalifa Hafter and other top commanders visited on Sunday injured soldiers in el-Marg hospital in Benghazi city. The visit comes within the framework of raising ....

  • British hostage David Bolam freed by militants in Libya

    Date: 2014-10-05 09:05:33 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:1068941

    LONDON, Oct 5 (MENA) - A British headteacher who has been held hostage by Islamist militants in Libya has been released. David Richard Bolam, 53, who worked as the principal at the International School Benghazi in northern Libya, was abducted ....

  • Daesh plots to grab Iran’s nuclear secrets

    Date: 2014-10-05 08:57:16 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:1068637

    LONDON, Oct 5 (MENA) – Daesh is urging its members to plan for war with Iran and has ambitions to seize Tehran’s nuclear secrets, the Sunday Times quoted a manifesto attributed to one of Daesh most senior members. The document, typed on ....

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