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Al-Bashir takes part in IGAD meet in Juba Saturday
Date: 2014-05-01 18:28:11 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:119 - ID:698473
KHARTOUM, May 1 (MENA) – Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir will lead his country's delegation to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) meeting slated for May 3 in Juba, South Sudan. The delegation is planned to include Sudan's two ....
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Ex-Iraq PM: polls success rely on bridging sectarian divide
Date: 2014-05-01 17:58:02 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:114 - ID:698413
BAGHDAD, May 1 (MENA) – Former Prime Minister of Iraq Iyad Allawi, head of the National Coalition bloc, said Thursday the electoral process' success in Iraq depended on emerging out of the tunnel of sectarian and regional bias. The real success ....
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Barzani calls on Iraqi political factions to accept election results
Date: 2014-05-01 17:49:39 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:113 - ID:698439
BAGHDAD, May 1 (MENA) - President of the self-ruled northern Kurdish region of Iraq Masoud Barzani called Thursday on political groups to show responsibility for the results of the parliamentary elections and accept their results. Iraqis cast ....
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Fears from increasing number of refugees from S. Sudan in Abyei - UN
Date: 2014-05-01 17:40:50 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:110 - ID:698416
KHARTOUM, May 1 (MENA) - The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan Ali Al-Za'tari voiced his concern over an increasing number of people from South Sudan seeking refuge in the Abyei area. Over the past few days, at least ....
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Car bomb explodes in Tripoli, conflicting reports on injury of driver
Date: 2014-05-01 15:49:18 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:100 - ID:698321
TRIPOLI, May 1 (MENA) - A private car exploded Thursday on Salah el-Din road in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. There are vastly conflicting reports on whether the driver is injured or not. In press statements Thursday, Head of the information ....
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26 prisoners join open hunger strike - Palestinian Prisoners' Club
Date: 2014-05-01 15:36:22 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:101 - ID:698322
RAMALLAH, May 1 (MENA) – The Head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Club Qadura Fares said on Thursday that there is 26 prisoners who joined open hunger strike. Fares underlined that the prisoners, who began one-day strike in the Israeli Negev desert ....
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1killed, 2 injured in Tripoli random gunfire
Date: 2014-05-01 14:54:26 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:94 - ID:698251
TRIPOLI, May 1 (MENA) – One person was killed and two soldiers were injured in a random gunfire by gunmen on Tripoli airport road. A number of armed men blocked the Tripoli airport road, torched some cars and started shooting fire randomly in ....
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Violent clashes erupt between regime forces, free army – activists
Date: 2014-05-01 14:36:38 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:91 - ID:698250
DAMASCUS, May 1 (MENA) – Syrian activists said that there were violent clashes between the regime forces and the free army in Jobar neighborhood in Reef Dimashq. The clashes coincided with shelling by the regime forces of Qasion Mountain, ....
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9 Iraqi security elements killed, injured in suicide bombing
Date: 2014-05-01 14:32:14 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:90 - ID:698189
BAGHDAD, May 1 (MENA) – Nine Iraqi army and police elements were killed or injured in a suicide attack by a booby-trapped vehicle that targeted a joint checkpoint in Anbar Province, located some 110 kilometers western Baghdad. The suicide bomber, ....
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Libya's ex-premier: Egypt made many concessions to maintain brotherly relations with Libya
Date: 2014-05-01 13:32:40 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:80 - ID:698124
TRIPOLI, May 1 (MENA) - Former Libyan premier Ali Zedan said Egypt has made several concessions in order to maintain its brotherly relations with Libya, asserting that Egypt has no ambitions in Libya. Interviewed by "Libya Future" website, Zedan ....