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Qurei meets Russian representative
Date: 2014-09-09 20:35:13 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:153 - ID:914505
RAMALLAH, Sept 9 (MENA) – Member of higher office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Ahmed Qurei held a meeting Tuesday with Russian representative to the Palestinian National Authority Alexander Rudakov. The meeting took up ....
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Syria army advances in Joubar neighborhood
Date: 2014-09-09 20:03:27 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:151 - ID:914546
DAMASCUS, Sept 9 (MENA) - Syrian army units advanced in Joubar neighborhood in eastern Damascus on Tuesday. Footage aired by state-run SANA showed Bashar al-Assad army in control of vast areas of Joubar amid artillery shelling to retake the ....
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Houithi elements try to occupy power station
Date: 2014-09-09 19:32:28 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:146 - ID:914496
SANAA, Sept 9 (MENA) - Houithi elements tried to occupy electricity station and government and service facilities, an official source at the higher security committee in Yemen said Tuesday. The security and military bodies stood against these ....
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Blast 'kills Islamist rebel chiefs' in Syria
Date: 2014-09-09 19:26:32 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:145 - ID:914499
DAMASCUS, Sept 9 (MENA) - A bomb blast has killed at least 20 people at a meeting of leaders of the key Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham in Syria, the BBC reported on Tuesday. State TV said the group's head, Hassan Abboud, was killed in the ....
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Saudi Arabia denies re-opining embassy in Damascus
Date: 2014-09-09 19:17:28 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:142 - ID:914400
JEDDAH, Sept 9 (MENA) – Saudi Arabia Foreign Ministry dismissed Tuesday media reports claiming the Kingdom reopened its embassy in Damascus. The fake news story fanned by the privately owned Erem News claiming that Saudi Arabia would reopen its ....
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Sudan's decision to close Iranian cultural center final
Date: 2014-09-09 18:55:50 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:138 - ID:914403
KHARTOUM, Sept 9 (MENA) - Sudanese Speaker of the Parliament al-Fateh Izz al-Din asserted Tuesday that his country's decision to close the Iranian cultural center and its branches all over Sudan was final. In statements Tuesday, Izz al-Din denied ....
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KSA contained corona virus: GCC official
Date: 2014-09-09 18:36:19 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:133 - ID:914346
RIYADH, Sept 9 (MENA) – Director-General of the Executive Board of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Health Ministers Tawfiq Khoja has said Saudi Arabia has contained corona virus disease. Khoja told the Bahrain-based Al-Watan newspaper that the ....
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All departments ready to receive pilgrims: Makkah governor
Date: 2014-09-09 18:09:30 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:130 - ID:914314
MAKKAH, Sept 9 (MENA) – Governor of Makkah Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah said Tuesday all departments stand ready to receive Hajj pilgrims. During a meeting with Hajj Minister Bandar Hajar, the governor said an awareness campaign was launched to ....
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Libyan delegation heads for UAE
Date: 2014-09-09 16:52:01 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:119 - ID:914185
TRIPOLI, Sept 9 (MENA) - A Libyan delegation comprising parliament speaker Aguila Salah Issa, acting Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani and Libyan Army Chief-of-Staff Abdel-Razzaq Nazuri headed for the UAE on a two-day official visit at an ....
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Azhar Imam praises dialogue among Sudanese
Date: 2014-09-09 16:20:54 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:112 - ID:914203
CAIRO, Sept 9 (MENA) – Al Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayyeb praised Tuesday the idea of holding an inclusive dialogue among different Sudanese political factions in order to rise above their pending disputes. El-Tayyeb's remarks came during his ....