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  • Yemeni president sacks cabinet

    Date: 2014-09-02 12:13:25 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:69 - ID:902746

    SANAA, Sept 2 (MENA) - Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi on Tuesday dismissed the cabinet and reversed an earlier decision to lift fuel subsidies in a bid to end the anti-government protests across the country. This came after a meeting ....

  • 17 Daesh militants killed in Mosul

    Date: 2014-09-02 12:08:15 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:67 - ID:902542

    BAGHDAD, Sept 2 (MENA) - Seventeen elements of the terrorist Daesh group were killed in an air shelling on northern Mosul. An Iraqi security source told the Iraqi News Agency that the shelling burned two water tanks and four trucks. Meanwhile, ....

  • Transport minister takes part IMOC conf. in Arabia

    Date: 2014-09-02 11:22:20 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:57 - ID:902675

    CAIRO, Sept 2 (MENA) - Minister of Transport Hani Dhahi left here on Tuesday on a several days' visit to Saudi Arabia. During the visit, the minister will take part in the International Marine and Offshore Engineering Conference (IMOC), slated ....

  • Iraq PM calls for UN help

    Date: 2014-09-02 11:08:17 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:902432

    BAGHDAD, Sept 2 (MENA) - Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi called on the United Nations to help find "common understandings" among Iraqi political factions. He made his comments in his meeting with head of the UN Mission in Iraq, ....

  • Death toll from attacks in Libya rises to 14

    Date: 2014-09-02 10:09:06 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:902298

    TRIPOLI, Sept 2 (MENA) - The death toll from the fierce clashes that have been going on with the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries Benghazi Revolutionaries since the early hours of Tuesday near Benina Airport has risen to 14 soldiers. The ....

  • Daesh militants accused of ethnic cleansing

    Date: 2014-09-02 09:05:32 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:902313

    WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (MENA) - Amnesty International says it has new evidence Daesh militants are carrying out "a wave of ethnic cleansing" against minorities in northern Iraq. The human rights group said the so-called IS had turned the region into ....

  • Sudanese cabinet: Qostul-Ishkeit crossing opening crowns Egypt-Sudan ties

    Date: 2014-09-02 08:37:35 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:902238

    KHARTOUM, Sept 2 (MENA) - Sudanese Minister of Cabinet Affairs Ahmed Saad Omar termed the inauguration of "Qostul-Ishkeit" border crossing as "big success" that crowned the distinguished relations binding Egypt and Sudan. The Sudanese minister, ....

  • Families of LAF, ISF hostages block Tripoli – Beirut road

    Date: 2014-09-02 07:59:07 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:902091

    BEIRUT, Sept 2 (MENA) - Families of the hostages of the Lebanese armed Forces and Internal Security Forces blocked Tripoli-Beirut road in a bid to pressurize the government to expedite the release of their relatives held by jidadists from ....

  • Libya's Human Rights Committee condemns storming Al Falah camp

    Date: 2014-09-02 07:51:29 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:902092

    TRIPOLI, Sept 2 (MENA) – The Libyan National committee of Human Rights denounced on Tuesday the attack launched by Islamist militias of Libya Dawn on Al Falah Tawerghan camp. This assault led to the killing of one person and the injuring of four ....

  • Libya condemns assault on Tawerghan refugee camp in Tripoli

    Date: 2014-09-02 07:20:54 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:902050

    TRIPOLI, Sept 2 (MENA) – The Libyan government has denounced the attack launched by an armed group on Tripoli’s Al Falah Tawerghan camp. This assault has left one person dead and four others injured. In a statement, the government has ....

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