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Iraqi army controls Muqdadiyah: military official

Date: 2014-08-11 13:10:47 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:93 - ID:868386

BAGHDAD, Aug 11 (MENA) - The Iraqi army and police have controlled al-Maqdadiyah in Diyala after an operation that started at dawn on Monday, a military official has said. As many as 24 members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) ....

236,897 Palestinian in Gaza displaced in 90 UNRWA schools - UN

Date: 2014-08-11 13:10:10 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:92 - ID:868631

CAIRO, Aug 11 (MENA) - As many as 236,897 Palestinians in Gaza are displaced in 90 UNRWA schools. Another 38,994 were hosted in 23 government and private schools and public facilities, according to the mission of the United Nations Office for the ....

Iraq parliament delays session to name new PM

Date: 2014-08-11 12:43:53 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:82 - ID:868463

BAGHDAD, Aug 11 (MENA) - Iraq's newly elected parliament said Monday it will postpone till August 19 today's session to discuss the naming of a new prime minister. The Iraqi federal court, also on Monday, ruled that Nuri al-Maliki's bloc is the ....

Germany backs US raids in Iraq

Date: 2014-08-11 11:42:25 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:74 - ID:868371

BERLIN, Aug 11 (MENA) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said those displaced in northern Iraq must be helped. The US aerial intervention was "important," Steinmeier said in a statement. The campaign by the IS militants "exceeds ....

Arabi condemns ISIL crimes against Iraq's Christians

Date: 2014-08-11 10:35:01 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:61 - ID:868282

CAIRO, Aug 11 (MENA) - Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi condemned on Monday terrorist crimes committed by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against minorities in Iraq, especially Christians and Yazidis who fled ....

Arab League head meets Palestinian chief negotiator

Date: 2014-08-11 10:29:11 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:58 - ID:868239

CAIRO, Aug 11 (MENA) - Arab League chief Nabil Arabi met on Monday Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat on talks to reach permanent ceasefire with Israel. Erekat will attend later today a meeting of the Arab League on the situation in ....

US, Palestinian arrested after fleeing jail in Sanaa

Date: 2014-08-11 10:10:22 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:52 - ID:868205

SANAA, Aug 11 (MENA) - The Yemeni police arrested two prisoners - an American and a Palestinian, who fled the central jail in Sanaa. The US prisoner fled the prison with the help of the Palestinian. He was arrested while trying to travel to ....

54 militants killed in air strike at Shorqat market

Date: 2014-08-11 10:01:16 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:49 - ID:868182

BAGHDAD, Aug 11 (MENA) - Fifty-four militants have been killed in an air strike that targeted their gathering at Shorqat market. A number of Arab and foreign militants are among those killed, according to a statement by the national media center ....

Arab League chief meets UN envoy on Gaza ceasefire

Date: 2014-08-11 10:00:19 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:48 - ID:868125

CAIRO, Aug 11 (MENA) - Arab League chief Nabil Arabi met on Monday with UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry. The meeting took on efforts to cement a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Contacts that had ....

Gulf states plan to purchase experimental Ebola drug

Date: 2014-08-11 09:07:21 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:38 - ID:868051

RIYADH, Aug 11 (MENA) - Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are working on a unified plan to purchase an experimental Ebola drug, Tawfiq Khoja, director-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Health Ministers’ Executive Office, told ....