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Palestinian amb. urges Brazil to backpedal on opening trade office in Jerusalem
Date: 2019-12-18 09:13:02 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8234408
CAIRO, Dec 18 (MENA) - Palestinian Ambassador here Diab el Louh on Wednesday urged Brazil to backpedal on its decision to open a trade office in Jerusalem. In press statements, he said that the Arab League Council will hold an extraordinary ....
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Russia to invest $500m in Syrian port of Tartus
Date: 2019-12-18 09:02:21 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:8234413
LONDON, Dec 18 (MENA) - Russia will invest $500m in the port of Tartus in its largest ever investment in Syria, as Moscow seeks to leverage its position as the most powerful foreign player in the war-torn country, The Financial Times newspaper ....
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Iran president to make 2-day visit to Japan from Friday
Date: 2019-12-17 12:57:28 GMT - Japan - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:8233325
TOKYO, Dec 17 (MENA) - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani will visit Japan from Friday to meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Japanese government said Tuesday. The two-day visit comes amid the U.S.-Iran standoff over a landmark nuclear deal ....
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Russia suggests alternative to West’s draft resolution on Syria aid at UN
Date: 2019-12-17 12:42:53 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:8233162
MOSCOW, Dec 17 (MENA) - Russia has submitted to the UN Security Council its draft resolution on delivering humanitarian aid to Syria as an alternative to a document suggested by Germany, Belgium and Kuwait, TASS news agency reported on Tuesday. A ....
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We will continue to address Turkish provocations with cautiousness: Cyprus
Date: 2019-12-17 07:25:36 GMT - Cyprus - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:8232902
NICOSIA, Dec 17 (MENA) - Cypriot Defense Minister Savvas Angelides said that Cyprus will continue to address the Turkish provocations in the exclusive economic zone with cautiousness, adding that responding to these provocations in the same way that ....
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Israeli occupation forces demolish house in Jerusalem
Date: 2019-12-17 07:17:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:8232916
RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Bulldozers of the Israeli occupation forces demolished on Tuesday a section of a Palestinian house in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya under the pretext that it was built without a permit, Wafa News ....
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Palestine calls for designating settlers who attack Palestinians as terrorists
Date: 2019-12-16 15:17:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:8232239
RAMALLAH, Dec 16 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry Monday called on world governments to place Jewish settlers involved in attacking and terrorizing the Palestinian population in the occupied territories on their terrorist lists and ban them ....
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Israeli forces arrest 22 Palestinians in West Bank raids
Date: 2019-12-16 12:41:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8231600
RAMALLAH, Dec 16 (MENA) - Israeli forces today rounded up 22 Palestinians and assaulted others across the occupied West Bank, WAFA quoted the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPC) as saying. It said in a press statement that eight Palestinians were ....
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Israeli forces push deep into eastern Gaza border
Date: 2019-12-16 12:12:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:8231535
GAZA CITY, Dec 16 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Monday pushed deep into the eastern border of Gaza city near the border fence. Israeli bulldozers made a limited incursion into the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahia. Palestinian ....
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Israeli occupation forces arrest eight Palestinians including Fatah movement official
Date: 2019-12-15 08:52:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:8229997
RAMALLAH, Dec 15 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Sunday held eight Palestinians, including a Fatah Movement official, during an arrest campaign in the occupied East Jerusalem last night, according to local sources. An Israeli police force ....
