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China: Two-State solution base to resolving Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Date: 2019-11-08 09:05:34 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:8179519

BEIJING, Nov 8 (MENA)- The two-State solution is the solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, China's representative to the Middle East Zhai Jun said. In statements to MENA, he stressed the necessity of adhering to the Arab Peace Initiative ....

Pompeo urges world to address Iran’s 'nuclear provocations'

Date: 2019-11-07 16:32:12 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:8178959

WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Iran’s actions call for all nations to reject its “nuclear extortion” and take “serious steps to increase pressure”, Euronews network reported. Pompeo made the call after Tehran ....

Israel occupation forces arrest 11 Palestinians in West Bank

Date: 2019-11-07 12:13:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:8178234

RAMALLAH, Nov 7 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested Thursday 11 Palestinians after raiding their homes in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency quoted the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) as saying. It said four people were ....

Israeli occupation forces raid Palestinian homes northern Ramallah

Date: 2019-11-07 09:51:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:8178146

RAMALLAH, Nov 7 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces raided several homes during a crackdown carried out Thursday on the northern Ramallah towns and villages of Birzeit, Kobar, Abu Qash, Surda and Abu Shukheidim. The occupation forces measured the ....

US senators press for sanctions on Turkey if it is violating Syria ceasefire

Date: 2019-11-07 07:48:45 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:8178054

NEW YORK, Nov 7 (MENA) - Republican and Democratic US senators asked President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday to let them know - and to respond with touch sanctions - if reports are true that Turkey is violating a ceasefire agreement in ....

Jewish settlers storm Aqsa mosque under Israeli soldiers' protection

Date: 2019-11-06 14:11:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:8177137

RAMALLAH, Nov 6 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers and a former Israeli minister of agriculture stormed on Wednesday Al Aqsa mosque compound from Bab al Maghareba gate under tight security measures by Israeli soldiers. The Awqaf department in the ....

Israeli bulldozers make limited incursion into GS

Date: 2019-11-06 12:08:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:8176591

GAZA CITY, Nov 6 (MENA) - Israeli military bulldozers made a limited incursion into eastern Jabalia, northern the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday. The bulldozers started scooping up lands in the area and a barbed wire fence was later ....

SDF repel Turkish attack on northern Syrian silos - SOHR

Date: 2019-11-06 11:55:59 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8176653

DAMASCUS, Nov 6 (MENA) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said Wednesday the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) repelled a Turkish attack at Sharkarak cereal silos in northern Syria. In an attempt by the Turkish forces and their loyal ....

Syria, Kazakhstan in talks over bilateral relations

Date: 2019-11-06 08:18:39 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:8176436

DAMASCUS, Nov 6 (MENA) - Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad received Kazakh Ambassador Kairat Lama Sharif. Talks tackled means to enhance bilateral relations in the cultural, economic, scientific and consular domains, SANA ....

Russia ready to assist Kurds-Damascus talks on SDF joining govt army - Deputy FM

Date: 2019-11-05 10:53:02 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:8175012

MOSCOW, Nov 5 (MENA) - In late-October, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the complete withdrawal of troops from the Syrian-Turkish border, Sputnik reported. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said Tuesday that ....