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Israel kidnaps 5 Lebanese grazers
Date: 2014-04-17 10:17:00 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:49 - ID:673029
BEIRUT, April 17 (MENA) – The Israeli occupation forces arrested on Thursday five Lebanese nationals, including three women. They were arrested while grazing cattle inside a Shebaa farm on birders with Israel, and then they were taken into the ....
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JAF jetfighter crashed, pilot killed
Date: 2014-04-17 09:34:41 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:41 - ID:672916
AMMAN, April 17 (MENA) - The General Command of Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) announced on Thursday that a Royal Jordanian Air Force's jet fighter was crashed during a training flight in the eastern area of the Kingdom. JAF General Command mourned ....
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4 injured in Muthanna airport mortar shelling
Date: 2014-04-17 08:57:30 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:672810
BAGHDAD, April 17 (MENA) – Four people were injured on Thursday after eight mortar shells had targeted Muthanna airport in central Baghdad, a security source said. A security force cordoned off the scenes, while the ambulances rushed the injured ....
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Israeli soldiers abduction is way to release Palestinians: former PA Min
Date: 2014-04-17 08:01:33 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:672675
GAZA, April 17 (MENA) - Atallah Abu al-Saba, former Minister of Prisoners' Affairs in Gaza strip said on Thursday that kidnapping Israeli soldiers is the only way to release Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli jails. Abu al-Saba told MENA ....
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5,000 Palestinians currently imprisoned in Israel
Date: 2014-04-17 07:52:17 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:672688
GAZA CITY, April 17 (MENA) – A senior source in the Palestinian government said on Thursday that the Israeli occupation forces have arrested about 800,000 Palestinians since 1967. "Amid the arrestees are women and children," Head of the Census ....
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Algerians go to polls to pick president
Date: 2014-04-17 07:31:09 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:672632
ALGIERS, April 17 (MENA) - Nearly 22 million Algerian voters headed to the polls on Thursday to choose among six candidates their President for the next five years. The six candidates in the fifth plural presidential election in the history of ....
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Palestine marks Prisoners' Day today
Date: 2014-04-17 06:36:14 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:672551
RAMALLAH, April 17 (MENA) - On April 17 of each year, Palestinian people mark Prisoners' Day, remembering around 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and their sacrifices as fighters for the liberation of their homeland and ....
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Assad troops accused of gas attacks on Harasta: Activists
Date: 2014-04-17 06:12:44 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:672532
DAMASCUSS, April 17 (MENA) – Many people were suffocated on Thursday in Harasta, Rif Damascus due to Assad forces' gas attacks on the city, activists said. Assad's warplanes fired cluster bombs on Kasab township in rural Latakia province, on ....
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Libya says indirect contacts going on with Jordanian diplomat's kidnappers
Date: 2014-04-17 04:37:50 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:672515
TRIPOLI, April 17 (MENA) - Libya's foreign minister stressed that there are indirect contacts with the kidnappers of Jordanian Ambassador to Libya Fawaz Eitan through patriotic civilians and in coordination with security authorities. Minister ....
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UNSMIL: Violence in Libya has negative consequences on economic development
Date: 2014-04-16 22:47:51 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:169 - ID:672470
TRIPOLI, April 16 (MENA) – The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said Wednesday that resorting to violence is rejected by the Libyans as violence might have negative consequences on country's reputation and its economic development. "The ....
