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Iraqi cabinet approves 2015 budget bill
Date: 2014-12-23 14:40:37 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:1599021
The Iraqi Cabinet approved on Tuesday the 2015's draft federal budget and sent it to the parliament. This came after a ministerial committee, including Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, amended some articles of the budget bill. ....
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Libyan students storm their country's embassy in Ankara
Date: 2014-12-23 14:21:43 GMT - Turkey - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:1598541
A group of Libyan students stormed the Libyan embassy in the Turkish capital of Ankara, claiming they were not paid their scholarship by the embassy. Some 150 students rallied outside the embassy compound and then forced their way inside after ....
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Algeria kills jihadist leader
Date: 2014-12-23 13:58:33 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:33 - ID:1598509
The Algerian army confirmed on Tuesday that it has killed the head of the jihadist Jund al-Khilafa group that beheaded a French hostage in September, said a statement by Defense Ministry on Tuesday. The body of Abdelmalek Gouri, who claimed ....
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Yemeni killed, 4 injured in southern separatists' protest
Date: 2014-12-23 13:51:24 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:32 - ID:1598381
A Yemeni person was killed and four others injured when clashes erupted Tuesday between security forces and southern separatists in Yemen's Shabwah province. The national security forces rushed to Ataq, the main city in Shabwa province, to ....
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Satellite images show 290 Syrian cultural sites damaged by civil war, UN agency says
Date: 2014-12-23 12:52:38 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:1597761
Satellite imagery shows that at least 290 cultural heritage sites in Syria have been damaged by the country's civil war, a U.N. agency said Tuesday. Syria is home to archaeological treasures that span thousands of years of written history, from ....
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Saudi CP meets Lebanon's Mufti
Date: 2014-12-23 12:39:46 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:1597661
Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud held a meeting with Lebanon's Grand Mufti Abdel Latif Deria and his accompanying delegation. The meeting tackled a number of issues of mutual concern. ....
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Moussa meets with Iranian acting amb. to Egypt
Date: 2014-12-23 12:32:08 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:1597569
Former Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa received the acting Iranian ambassador to Egypt after taking office. They conferred on the Syrian crisis, Daesh, the latest developments in Yemen and the Palestinian issue. Moussa reviewed the ....
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Arab League chief welcomes Essebsi's election as Tunisia president
Date: 2014-12-23 12:27:13 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:1597505
Arab League Secretary General Nabil El Arabi has welcomed the election of Beji Caid Essebsi as the new president of Tunisia. In a press statement released on Tuesday, Araby greeted Essebsi and the Tunisian people over this important achievement, ....
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UN representative for Libya meets with GNC team
Date: 2014-12-23 12:19:25 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:1597425
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya Bernardino Leon met with the team authorized by the Libyan General National Congress (GNC) in Tripoli. The meeting took up the mechanisms of the coming national dialogue, the spokesman of ....
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Israeli who joined ISIS may have citizenship revoked
Date: 2014-12-23 07:30:43 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:1594409
Interior Minister Gilad Erdan is considering revoking the citizenship of an Israeli youth who flew to either Syria or Iraq, joined Islamic State and is now trying to come back home for medical treatment. Erdan said that he is waiting for the ....