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  • Iran FM hails ‘constructive’ talks with Japan officials after meeting Abe

    Date: 2019-08-28 10:53:13 GMT - Japan - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:8080221

    TOKYO, Aug 28 (MENA) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he has held “constructive” negotiations with Japanese officials on a range of issues, among them bilateral relations, Iran's Press TV reported. He also described as ....

  • Rouhani: Iran can not isolate itself from the world

    Date: 2019-08-28 10:26:38 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:8080122

    TEHRAN, Aug 28 (MENA) - President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Iran can not isolate itself from the world. At a meeting of the Iranian government, he underlined the necessity of cooperating with the international community, reported ....

  • Abe tells Zarif Japan will work to ease tensions

    Date: 2019-08-28 07:28:42 GMT - Japan - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:8079993

    YOKOHAMA, Aug 28 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that Japan will continue diplomatic efforts to ease tensions in the Middle East, NHK reported Wednesday. Abe met Zarif in ....

  • 2 Palestinians killed in Israeli rocket attack in southern Gaza

    Date: 2019-08-27 21:44:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:8079780

    GAZA CITY, Aug 27 (MENA) - Two Palestinians were killed when an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired a rocket at a motorcycle in Tel al Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday. A third Palestinian was seriously ....

  • Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese skies

    Date: 2019-08-27 14:36:21 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:8079262

    BEIRUT, Aug 27 (MENA) - Israeli reconnaissance planes continued for the second day to breach Lebanon's airspace after Hezbollah's threats to down any Israeli aircraft entering the Lebanese airspace. The planes circled, around the clock, over ....

  • Netanyahu tells Hezbollah's Nasrallah to 'calm down' after drone incident

    Date: 2019-08-27 11:36:36 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:8078879

    GAZA CITY, Aug 27 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to "calm down" after he said his group would retaliate for Israeli attacks in Syria and the Lebanese capital of Beirut, JPost reported ....

  • Palestine Foreign Ministry blasts US administration blackmail policies

    Date: 2019-08-27 11:05:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:8078802

    RAMALLAH, Aug 27 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Affairs Ministry on Tuesday stressed that the Palestinian people categorically refuse the blackmail polices adopted by the US administration which bargains on the fundamental rights of Palestinians, ....

  • Fierce clashes flare up between Syrian army, opposition in Idlib countryside

    Date: 2019-08-27 10:03:19 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:8078741

    LONDON, Aug 27 (MENA) - Fierce clashes erupted in eastern Idlib countryside between troops of the Syrian regime's army and factions of the armed opposition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Tuesday. Factions of the ....

  • 30 Israeli armored vehicles storm West Bank village

    Date: 2019-08-27 09:50:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8078722

    RAMALLAH, Aug 27 (MENA) - Thirty Israeli armored vehicles stormed on Tuesday a Palestinian village in southern the West Bank and Israeli soldiers took photos for three homes and searched others. The occupation forces stormed the homes of ....

  • Moscow warns of large-scale conflict in ME: TASS

    Date: 2019-08-26 21:13:23 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:95 - ID:8078310

    MOSCOW, Aug 26 (MENA) - Moscow is worried over the escalation of the Middle East conflict following an Israeli drone attack on the Hezbollah press center in Lebanon, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement TASS quoted on Monday. "Moscow ....

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