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  • Libyan PM-designate terms foreign interfering in Libya as "unacceptable"

    Date: 2014-05-12 08:43:13 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:716378

    TRIPOLI, May 12 (MENA) - Libyan Prime Minister-designate Ahmed Maiteeq termed any foreign interference in Libyan affairs as "unacceptable". In statements to Al-Nabaa news channel Sunday, Maiteeq eliminated that the international community would ....

  • 79 killed in violent actions Sunday

    Date: 2014-05-12 07:56:08 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:716192

    DAMASCUS, May 12 (MENA) - Seventy-nine people were killed Sunday in violence in different parts of Syria, said the Local Coordination Committees of Syria. Free army groups targeted an air base in Rif Dimashq, causing human and material losses, ....

  • Israel allows Gazans to visit relatives in Rimon prison

    Date: 2014-05-12 07:31:09 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:716259

    GAZA CITY, May 12 (MENA) - Israeli occupation authorities allowed on Monday dozens of prisoners' relatives in the Gaza Strip to visit them in Rimon prison in Negev, south Israel. Some 77 family members of the prisoners, including 10 children ....

  • Six Qaeda operatives killed in Yemen

    Date: 2014-05-12 07:30:25 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:716221

    SANAA, May 12 (MENA) - Six al-Qaeda militants were killed in an air strike over eastern the capital, tribal sources said on Monday. The air raid was carried out by a drone, the sources said as quoted by Radio France Internationale. No further ....

  • 3 MB-affiliated clerics suspended in Saudi Arabia

    Date: 2014-05-12 07:30:16 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:716248

    RIYADH, May 12 (MENA) - Saudi Arabia suspended three mosque imams for ever for their affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood and their contact with the group members in other Arab countries, Okaz newspaper out Monday reported. The trio will not ....

  • Iraqi officer, 5 soldiers injured in blast

    Date: 2014-05-11 20:51:37 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:153 - ID:715950

    BAGHDAD, May 11 (MENA) – An Iraqi army officer and fiver soldiers were injured when a bomb exploded near their checkpoint in Yusufiyah in southern Baghdad. Earlier, four Iraqi soldiers were killed and another was injured when an Islamic State of ....

  • 3 unidentified bodies found in Baghdad

    Date: 2014-05-11 19:10:10 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:144 - ID:715837

    BAGHDAD, May 11 (MENA) – Iraqi security forces found on Sunday three unidentified bodies in Tarmiyah Qada, northwest of Baghdad, a security source said. Gunshot wounds were observed on the bodies' heads and abdomens, the source said. Nobody ....

  • 5 soldiers killed, injured in Iraq's Kirkuk

    Date: 2014-05-11 19:08:32 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:143 - ID:715821

    BAGHDAD, May 11 (MENA) – Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and another was injured when an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militia attacked an army checkpoint with machineguns on Sunday. The armed men opened fire at the checkpoint in ....

  • Trench, sand barricades on borders with Egypt underway: Libyan official

    Date: 2014-05-11 18:32:23 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:139 - ID:715796

    TRIPOLI, May 11 (MENA) – The implementation of a trench and sand barricades on the borders with Egypt is a project proposed a year ago and is under implementation, Libyan Cabinet spokesman Ahmed al-Amin told MENA on Sunday. Consultations and ....

  • 3 brothers of Iraqi Sahwa forces killed in Baghdad

    Date: 2014-05-11 14:54:09 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:109 - ID:714761

    BAGHDAD, May 11 (MENA) – An armed group hanged three brothers who are members in Iraqi Sahwa forces in southern Baghdad, a security source said on Sunday. Unidentified gunmen raided a residential house owned by three Sahwa members and hanged ....

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