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Turkey detains pro-Kurdish mayors, removes them from office
Date: 2020-05-15 15:38:55 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:8433997
ANKARA, May 15 (MENA) - Turkish authorities on Friday detained four more elected mayors from Turkey’s mainly Kurdish populated east and southeast regions, as the government pressed ahead with its crackdown on a pro-Kurdish party it accuses of links ....
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Terrorists significantly boost ME activities amid coronavirus pandemic - Russian diplomat
Date: 2020-05-15 13:23:00 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:8433798
MOSCOW, May 15 (MENA) - Terrorists are now acting much more actively in the Middle East, especially Syria and Iraq, amid the coronavirus pandemic, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov told Sputnik Friday. "Terror organizations have ....
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Iran reports 2,102 new coronavirus cases, 48 deaths
Date: 2020-05-15 13:12:35 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8433769
TEHRAN, May 15 (MENA) - Iran has registered 2,102 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number to 116,635, local media reported Friday. The country also reported 48 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 6,902, ....
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Turkey asks permission to explore oil in Libya
Date: 2020-05-14 22:01:48 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:89 - ID:8433053
ANKARA, May 14 (MENA) – Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Dönmez said the state-owned Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) applied for permission from Libya's Tripoli-based government to explore oil, Haberturk newspaper reported. Donmez said Turkey would start ....
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Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli troops near Hebron
Date: 2020-05-14 15:48:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:8432752
GAZA CITY, May 14 (MENA) – A Palestinian young man was shot dead Thursday by Israeli occupation forces outside the town of Beit Awwa, to the west of Hebron city in the occupied West Bank, WAFA reported. Israeli troops reportedly fired live ....
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AL: Israeli annexation of Palestinian lands represents "new war crime"
Date: 2020-05-14 12:39:20 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:8432298
CAIRO, May 14 (MENA) – The Arab League asserted that Israel’s implementation of its imperialist plans to annex any part of the Palestinian lands that had been occupied in 1967, including the Jordan Valley, the north of the Dead Sea and the territory ....
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Fatah organizes protest rejecting annexation of parts of Ibrahimi Mosque
Date: 2020-05-14 08:31:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:8431970
RAMALLAH, May 14 (MENA) - Fatah movement in central Hebron organized a protest in front of Ibrahimi Mosque rejecting a decision of Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett to confiscate and annex parts of the mosque. The protesters cried out ....
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US envoy threatens to trigger return of UN sanctions on Iran
Date: 2020-05-14 08:00:16 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:8431968
WASHINGTON, May 14 (MENA) - The United States publicly threatened to trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Iran if the UN Security Council does not extend an arms embargo on Tehran that is due to expire in October under the Iran ....
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76 Palestinians in diaspora died of coronavirus
Date: 2020-05-13 08:39:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8430608
RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - Palestinian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry announced that the number of deaths of coronavirus among Palestinians in the diaspora has risen to 76. Two new coronavirus cases were detected among the Palestinian ....
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Israeli soldiers shoot dead 15-year-old Palestinian boy in the south of West Bank
Date: 2020-05-13 07:37:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:8430568
RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Fawwar refugee camp in the south of the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. It said Zeid Fadel Qeisieh was shot in the head and ....
