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Erekat, Bogdanov discuss peace settlement, fighting coronavirus

Date: 2020-04-18 08:50:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8400080

RAMALLAH, April 18 (MENA) - Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee Saeb Erekat on Saturday discussed with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in a phone conversation the Palestinian-Israeli peace ....

Number of coronavirus deaths in Israel reaches 158

Date: 2020-04-18 08:29:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:8400048

RAMALLAH, April 18 (MENA) - The Israeli Health Ministry announced on Saturday that the number of deaths due to coronavirus reached 158, according to the Palestinian news agency. The ministry added that the total cases reached now 13,107, with ....

Turkey's coronavirus death toll rises by 126 to 1,769: health minister

Date: 2020-04-17 17:47:47 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:8399730

ANKARA, April 17 (MENA) - Turkey's confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease increased by 4,353 in the past 24 hours, and 126 more people have died, taking the death toll to 1,769, The New York Times reported. The total number of cases in the ....

Coronavirus: Iran’s death toll rises to 4,958, infections reach 79,494

Date: 2020-04-17 12:31:03 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:8399216

TEHRAN, April 17 (MENA) - Iran's death toll from the new coronavirus rose by 89 in the past 24 hours to reach 4,958 on Friday, Al Arabiya reported. The total number of cases of infection reached 79,494, of which 3,563 were in critical condition, ....

264 new cases of coronavirus confirmed in Israel, bringing total infections to 12,855

Date: 2020-04-17 10:50:54 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8399120

GAZA CITY, April 17 (MENA) - In the past 24 hours, 264 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed, but 343 patients have recovered at the same time, the Health Ministry reported Friday morning - this is the first time Israel's daily number of ....

Palestine confirms 12 new cases of coronavirus

Date: 2020-04-17 10:16:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8399077

RAMALLAH, April 17 (MENA) - Palestinian Minister of Health Mai Keileh confirmed Friday 12 more cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the West Bank, bringing up the total in Palestine to 307, in addition to 95 cases in occupied Jerusalem, ....

IMF tallies up economic wreckage in Middle East, warns over debt

Date: 2020-04-16 21:55:17 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:91 - ID:8398612

WASHINGTON, April 16 (MENA) – A debt pile-up across the Middle East and Central Asia will tie down resources available to fight the global coronavirus pandemic and pose an added challenge as an estimated $35 billion in the region’s external ....

AL chief urges donor states to bridge UNRWA funding gap

Date: 2020-04-16 18:08:19 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:8398380

CAIRO, April 16 (MENA) - Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit on Thursday urged donor states to fill the UNRWA funding gap to meet basic needs of Palestinians living in refugee camps in the occupied Palestinian territories, Jordan, ....

Iraq summons Turkish ambassador over attack on Kurdish refugee camp

Date: 2020-04-16 14:27:11 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:8397997

BAGHDAD, April 16 (MENA) - The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has slammed Turkey for violating Iraqi airspace and launching a deadly airstrike on one of the refugee camps in the Kurdistan region, Ahmad Al Sahaf, the ministry's spokesman, said on ....

Palestinian UN envoy: Israel manipulating international focus on COVID-19 fight

Date: 2020-04-16 10:56:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:8397346

RAMALLAH/NEW YORK, April 16 (MENA) - Palestinian Authority's Permanent Envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour said Israel is manipulating the international community's focus on the fight against COVID-19 for the implementation of more ....