Arab world

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  • CBL assures Libyans about cash money

    Date: 2014-05-23 10:30:25 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:40 - ID:738023

    TRIPOLI, May 23 (MENA) - The Central Bank of Libya has assured citizens that there is cash money in all bank branches in the Arab country. The CBL is ready to meet any future needs of banks across Libya, it said in a statement. The CBL is a ....

  • 9 Iraqis killed, wounded in Mosul twin blasts

    Date: 2014-05-23 09:21:20 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:737870

    BAGHDAD, May 23 (MENA) – Three policemen were killed and three others were wounded in twin blasts in the Iraqi northern province of Nineveh on Friday. A source said two suicide bombers were driving two car bombings; one targeted a police patrol ....

  • 2 Iraqi officers killed, 9 injured in Mosul blast

    Date: 2014-05-23 09:19:26 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:737894

    BAGHDAD, May 23 (MENA) - Two Iraqi senior police officers were killed while eight police personnel and an officer were injured when an explosive device exploded in southern Mosul, 405 km north of Baghdad. A Nineveh security source said the ....

  • Libyan ex-security official survives assassination plot

    Date: 2014-05-23 09:08:54 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:737858

    TRIPOLI, May 23 (MENA) - A former official at the Libyan interior ministry survived an assassination plot carried out by unidentified gunmen in Benghazi. The gunmen were driving a car and opened fire on Colonel Salah Dorman but he survived the ....

  • Yemen not to be used to harm neighbors, says interior minister

    Date: 2014-05-23 07:21:41 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:737618

    RIYADH, May 23 (MENA) – The Yemeni Interior Minister said his country's war on terror and Al-Qaeda will not end until the terror group is wiped out "whatever the war takes." "We will not allow that Yemen to be used to harm the security or ....

  • Huge fire erupts in Tripoli graveyard

    Date: 2014-05-23 06:55:09 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:737586

    TRIPOLI, May 23 (MENA) - Firefighters put out a huge fire that erupted in a graveyard in eastern Tripoli on Friday. The fire was sparked by fireworks lit up by youths near the graveyard, a security source said. (MENA) WN/AS ....

  • Libyan general vows to hand over MB leaders to Egypt

    Date: 2014-05-23 06:26:06 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:737529

    BENGHAZI, May 23 (MENA) - Libya's general Khalifa Haftar said he will hand over fugitive leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to Egypt. Haftar expressed support to the stance taken by Egyptian ex-defense minister Abdel-Fattah ....

  • Baghdad blast death toll rises to 40 killed, injured

    Date: 2014-05-22 21:08:10 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:159 - ID:737377

    BAGHDAD, May 22 (MENA) – Six people were killed while 34 others injured in a blast hit the Shiite shrine of Imam al-Kazim western Baghdad on Thursday, a security official said. The explosion occurred when a woman-dressed suicidal man went off in ....

  • Jordan ready for Pope Francis's visit - minister

    Date: 2014-05-22 17:38:53 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:134 - ID:736762

    AMMAN, May 22 (MENA) – Jordan's Tourism Minister Nidal Qatamin expressed Thursday hope that Pope Francis's visit on May 24-26 would help Jordan market the religious sites in the country and draw more tourists to them. The minister said that the ....

  • Egypt's amb. to Tunisia receives Ahly football squad ahead of CAF face-off

    Date: 2014-05-22 16:59:39 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:127 - ID:737090

    TUNIS, May 22 (MENA) – Egypt's ambassador to Tunisia Ayman Musharafa met on Thursday Al Ahly football mission which arrived in Tunisia Thursday to gear up for a game with Tunisia’s Etoile du Sahel in Group B of the CAF Confederation Cup. The game ....

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