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April 12, 2014

596 migrants rescued by Italian Navy

Nearly 600 migrants of Palestinian, Syrian and Eritrean origins were rescued by the Italian Navy and coastguard off the coast of Italy yesterday. The 596 people included 25 children...

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April 12, 2014

Israel urges the US to arm the Egyptian army

Israel is urging senior US officials and key congressmen to continue supplying the Egyptian army with 10 advanced Apache combat helicopters. An Israeli official said supplying the Egyptian army...

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April 12, 2014

Fatah vows to file libel suit against Sawiris

Fatah vowed yesterday to sue the Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris on charges of plotting against the Palestinian people and President Mahmoud Abbas and interfering in Palestinian internal affairs. Through...

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April 12, 2014

Gaza siege reduces inhabitants’ purchasing power

Civil servants in the Gaza Strip have been paid only half their salaries for the past three months due to the blockade of the enclave. This reduced the purchasing...

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April 12, 2014

Cyrenaica set conditions to talk with Tripoli

Three conditions must be met in order for negotiations to be held between the government in Tripoli, Libya, and the Cyrenaica Transitional Council to bring an end to the...

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April 12, 2014

Former Libyan Mufti sentenced to seven years over spreading false news during revolution

The Misrata Court of Appeals sentenced on Monday the former Grand Mufti of Libya, Mohamed Madani Shweref, to seven years in prison and a fine of 500 Libyan dinars,...

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April 12, 2014

Senior Saudi official: No end for crisis unless Qatar changes its foreign policy

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal ruled out on Tuesday that the political impasse between Saudi Arabia and Qatar would end “as long as Qatar has not changed its...

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April 12, 2014

Secular leader in Tunisia says alliance with Ennahda possible

Former Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid El-Sebsi said in an interview with Reuters that his party is ready to ally with the Islamist Ennahda movement. El-Sebsi, the president of...

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April 12, 2014

Tensions with Qatar impede meeting between Obama and GCC

Diplomatic sources in Washington have revealed to the UAE-based newspaper Al-Khaleej that the political disagreement between the State of Qatar and the major Gulf States has prevented the meeting...

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April 12, 2014

Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood denies terrorist listing in Saudi Arabia and the UAE

A senior member of the Islamic Constitutional Movement, a Sunni Islamist party in Kuwait affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and known in Arabic by the acronym Hadas, denied claims...

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