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Syria intercepts Israeli missiles over Quneitra
Date: 2020-03-05 05:28:41 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:8339923
DAMASCUS, March 5 (MENA) - Syrian air defenses have intercepted Israeli missiles near Homs in central Syria and Quneitra in the south, state media reported Thursday. "At 00:30 on Thursday our air defense monitored Israeli warplanes coming from ....
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Arab foreign ministers reiterate their rejection of Trump's peace plan
Date: 2020-03-04 23:07:56 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:84 - ID:8339786
CAIRO, March 4 (MENA) - Arab foreign ministers reiterated their rejection of the US-Israeli peace plan, announced in late January, for failing to meet even the minimum rights and aspirations of the Palestinian people. During the 153rd session of ....
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Iranian president: Coronavirus has affected almost all Iranian provinces
Date: 2020-03-04 11:13:56 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:8338753
TEHRAN, March 4 (MENA) - An outbreak of novel coronavirus has affected almost all of Iran’s provinces, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, according to the official presidency website. Russia Today quoted the Iranian president as saying ....
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Relief operations in Syria's Idlib overwhelmed: U.N. official
Date: 2020-03-04 06:07:21 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:8338280
ANKARA, March 4 (MENA) - Relief operations to meet the needs of nearly 1 million people who fled recent fighting in northwest Syria's Idlib have been overwhelmed, the U.N. aid chief said as the United States and Britain pledged to step up aid ....
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Israel arrests 9 Palestinians in WB
Date: 2020-03-03 14:31:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:8337375
RAMALLAH, March 3 (MENA) - Israel arrested on Tuesday nine Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank. In a statement wired by Palestinian news agency WAFA, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said Israeli forces detained two in Jericho, two in ....
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Coronavirus shatters trust in Iran’s leaders after cases surge: FT
Date: 2020-03-03 12:41:39 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:8337270
LONDON, March 3 (MENA) - In less than two weeks the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Iran has jumped from two to more than 2,300, shaking public trust in the Iranian regime’s capacity to contain the disease and exacerbating the country’s ....
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Scores of settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque
Date: 2020-03-02 12:25:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8335405
RAMALLAH, March 2 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli occupation forces, broke into Al Aqsa Mosque from Bab el Magharba gate on Monday. Nearly 226 settlers toured the mosque yards in a provocative way, the Islamic Awqaf Ministry ....
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Turkish soldiers injured in shelling of village in Syria's Idlib
Date: 2020-03-02 10:19:51 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8334942
DAMASCUS, March 2 (MENA) - Syrian field sources said that Turkish soldiers have been injured in artillery shelling of a Turkish post in the village of Qaminas in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. Sky News quoted the sources as saying that ....
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EU calls for extraordinary meeting on Syria next week
Date: 2020-03-01 22:33:20 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:8334759
BRUSSELS, March 1 (MENA) - EU Minister for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell called for an extraordinary meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council next week to discuss the unfolding situation in Syria at a request of the Greek foreign minister. The ....
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Shopping mall in central Israel evacuated amid coronavirus fears
Date: 2020-03-01 12:55:37 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:8333939
GAZA CITY, March 1 (MENA) - The emergency services evacuated parts of a shopping mall in central Israel after a suspected coronavirus patient came to a health maintenance organization (HMO) located on the top floor after recently arriving from ....
