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Coronavirus death toll mounts to 22 in Iran

Date: 2020-02-27 09:55:46 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:8329763

TEHRAN, Feb 27 (MENA) - Coronavirus has claimed three more lives in Iran, bringing the death toll from the virus to 22, the country confirmed. The death toll from coronavirus increased from 19 to 22 while the number of people affected by the ....

Syrian army takes full control of southern Rif Idlib

Date: 2020-02-27 08:07:48 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8329687

LONDON, Feb 27 (MENA) - The Syrian army has taken full control of southern Rif Idlib, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Thursday. The Syrian army made new advancements in Idlib's southern countryside, where it retook four ....

Egypt condemns Israeli plan to build new settlement units in West Bank

Date: 2020-02-26 20:42:27 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:8329443

CAIRO, Feb 26 (MENA) – Egypt condemned Wednesday an Israeli decision to build 3,500 new settlements units in the occupied West Bank. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez said the Israeli move violates international law and ....

20 Palestinians wounded in confrontation with occupation troops in Nablus

Date: 2020-02-26 12:12:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:8328548

RAMALLAH, Feb 26 (MENA) - Twenty Palestinians were injured Wednesday morning by Israeli army gunfire as hundreds of illegal Israeli settlers forced their way into Joseph’s Tomb near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian news agency WAFA ....

Palestinian territories free from coronavirus - Health Ministry

Date: 2020-02-26 09:41:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:8328358

RAMALLAH, Feb 26 (MENA) - Spokesperson for the Palestinian Health Ministry Tareef Ashour stressed that the Palestinian territories are free from coronavirus (COVID-19). In statements to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, he said the tests of a ....

US sanctions 13 foreign entities for supporting Iran missile program

Date: 2020-02-25 20:52:56 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:91 - ID:8327984

WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (MENA) - The United States announced on Tuesday it was imposing sanctions on 13 foreign entities and individuals in China, Iraq, Russia, and Turkey for supporting Iran’s missile program, CNBC reported. The State Department said ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns Israeli plans to build settlement in E1 area

Date: 2020-02-25 16:02:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:64 - ID:8327487

RAMALLAH, Feb 25 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned on Tuesday an announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to build 3,500 housing units in a new settlement in E1 area, east of occupied ....

Israeli warplanes resume airstrikes on Gaza Strip

Date: 2020-02-24 14:01:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:8325559

RAMALLAH, Feb 24 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes resumed this afternoon airstrikes against targets in the besieged Gaza Strip causing damage but no injuries, WAFA reported on Monday. A drone and jetfighters bombed several locations in Khan Yunis in ....

Abu Rudeineh: American-Israeli maps will not give legitimacy to anyone

Date: 2020-02-24 13:51:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:8325114

RAMALLAH, Feb 24 (MENA) - Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the American-Israeli maps that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said will be drawn soon according to the so-called "deal of the century" would not give ....

SOHR: 11 miliants, 8 regime soldiers killed in clashes in Idlib southern countryside

Date: 2020-02-24 12:14:33 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:8325117

LONDON, Feb 24 (MENA) - The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented the killing of 11 militants of the factions, including seven jihadists, in clashes and shelling in Sheikh Damis and Hantutin areas in the southern ....