Arab world

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  • Sudan fulfills technical requirements of foreign debt exemption

    Date: 2014-04-15 20:44:38 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:158 - ID:670373

    KHARTOUM, April 15 (MENA) - Sudan's Minister of Finance and National Economy Badreddin Mahmoud said Tuesday his country completed all technical requirements related to foreign debt exemption, especially short-term programs that had been agreed upon ....

  • France's president, PM attend funeral of former head of Arab World Institute

    Date: 2014-04-15 20:31:57 GMT - France - Arab world - SN:156 - ID:670098

    PARIS, April 15 (MENA) – France's President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls attended Tuesday the funeral of the former head of the Arab World Institute Dominique Baudis. The funeral took place in Invalides square in ....

  • Saudi intel chief relieved of his post

    Date: 2014-04-15 18:51:57 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:134 - ID:670253

    RIYADH, April 15 (MENA) – Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz issued a royal order on Tuesday that Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz was relieved of his post as Chief of the General Intelligence upon his request and that General Yousif bin Ali ....

  • Official: 15 May deadline for Egypt's workers in Jordan

    Date: 2014-04-15 18:24:19 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:124 - ID:669533

    CAIRO, April 15 (MENA) – Manpower and Immigration Minister Nahed el-Ashri said that 15 May is the deadline for 34,000 Egyptian workers in Jordan to regularize their status. Some 34,336 workers have already regularized their status over the last ....

  • Carter urges lifting Sudan sanctions

    Date: 2014-04-15 18:19:01 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:123 - ID:670177

    KHARTOUM, April 15 (MENA) - Former US President Jimmy Carter called for lifting Sudan from the list of terrorism-sponsoring states and removing economic sanctions imposed on it, the Sudanese Media Center reported on Tuesday. Carter, who was ....

  • 2 killed, 6 wounded in Baghdad

    Date: 2014-04-15 15:46:08 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:99 - ID:669848

    BAGHDAD, April 15 (MENA) – At least two people were killed and six others wounded on Tuesday when a bomb exploded in Baghdad. The roadside bomb went off while two vehicles were passing by the blast site, a security source said. A security ....

  • Libyan PM phones Jordanian counterpart

    Date: 2014-04-15 15:45:22 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:98 - ID:669851

    TRIPOLI, April 15 (MENA) - Libyan acting Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni held Tuesday a telephone conversation with his Jordanian counterpart Abdullah Ensour. The Libyan official said his country will exert every possible effort to ensure the ....

  • AJU slams assaulting reporters

    Date: 2014-04-15 15:20:43 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:92 - ID:669686

    CAIRO, April 15 (MENA) - The Arab Journalists Union (AJU) condemned the assault against two journalists while covering Monday's protests at Cairo University. Khaled Hussain, a journalist for Al-Yom 7 news website, was critically shot in the chest ....

  • Algeria interior denies reports in banning private TV networks from election coverage

    Date: 2014-04-15 15:11:36 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:87 - ID:669528

    ALGIERS, April 15 (MENA) - Algeria's Interior Ministry and local groups have categorically denied news reports on banning private TV networks from covering the presidential election process, due to kick off on Thursday. A statement released by ....

  • Bouteflika urges Algerians to go massively to polls on

    Date: 2014-04-15 14:27:05 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:83 - ID:669499

    ALGIERS, April 15 (MENA) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika urged the Algerians to participate massively in the presidential election of 17 April. "I appeal to all the citizens, men and women, to participate in the presidential election and ....

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