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US, Iran are at loggerheads, again: Washington Post
Date: 2019-08-20 11:58:16 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:8069865
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (MENA) - Though the US and Iran have lived in a state of hostility for decades, rarely have relations been as tense as in recent months, the risk is that a miscalculation could lead to a war that neither the US nor Iran say they ....
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Settlers storm Aqsa Mosque under protection of occupation forces
Date: 2019-08-20 11:35:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8069754
RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - Groups of Israeli settlers on Tuesday stormed Al Aqsa Mosque from Al Maghreba Gate under protection of Israeli occupation forces. According to Palestinian sources, the settlers broke into the mosque and toured it before ....
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Daesh could re-emerge in Syria: Chinese envoy warns
Date: 2019-08-20 10:30:31 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8069737
GENEVA, Aug 20 (MENA) - China's special envoy to Syria said on Tuesday that there was a danger of Daesh forces reviving in Syria and called for progress in the political process between President Bahshar el Assad government and opposition, the New ....
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Plakiotakis: No formal request by Iranian tanker to dock in Kalamata
Date: 2019-08-20 09:00:46 GMT - Greece - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:8069592
ATHENS, Aug 20 (MENA) - No “formal request” has been made so far to Greek authorities by the Iranian tanker wanted by US authorities to dock at the port of Kalamata, Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis said on Tuesday. The Grace 1, renamed the ....
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Five Palestinian injured by Israeli forces in W.Bank, Al Quds
Date: 2019-08-20 08:49:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:8069537
RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - Five Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday when hundreds of settlers stormed the vicinity of Joseph's Tomb near in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The settlers repeatedly stormed ....
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Pompeo: Release of Iranian tanker 'very unfortunate'
Date: 2019-08-20 07:47:44 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:8069516
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed frustration over the "very unfortunate" decision to release an Iranian tanker held off Gibraltar, in an implicit rebuke to ally Britain. "It’s very unfortunate that that ship ....
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SOHR: Armed factions withdraw from Khan Shaykhun, Hama countryside
Date: 2019-08-20 07:40:47 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:8069489
LONDON, Aug 20 (MENA) - The armed factions have withdrawn form Khan Shaykhun town and villages of Hama countryside, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Tuesday. The Turkish military convoy is still stationed in one of ....
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US doubled military presence in Gulf: Pentagon
Date: 2019-08-19 19:53:43 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:8069248
WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (MENA) - The US has doubled its military presence in the Arab Gulf area to safeguard international maritime trade and protect the US troops deployed in the region, Pentagon Spokeswoman Rebecca Rebarich said. The number of US ....
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Syrian Kurds hand over four Daesh children to Germany
Date: 2019-08-19 14:33:27 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:8068897
DAMASCUS, Aug 19 (MENA) – The Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northeastern Syria on Monday handed to Germany four children whose parents were part of Daesh terror outfit, Kurdish sources and a spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry ....
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Palestinian president terminates services of all his advisors
Date: 2019-08-19 13:32:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:8068692
RAMALLAH, Aug 19 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued Monday an order terminating the services of all his advisors regardless of their title or ranking. Abbas also decided to abolish the decisions and contracts related to them, and ....
