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Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns Israeli escalation

Date: 2020-03-05 13:20:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:8340659

RAMALLAH, March 5 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned in the strongest terms Israel's recent escalation and colonial expansion in the Palestinian territories, the latest of which was the demolition of houses in Bir Zeit ....

Iran schools, universities closed over coronavirus

Date: 2020-03-05 11:46:40 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:8340515

TEHRAN, March 5 (MENA) - Iran's health minister Saeed Namaki announced that schools and universities around the country will remain closed through Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on March 20, Sky news reported. He made the statement at a televised ....

Scores of settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2020-03-05 11:45:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:8340494

AMALLAH, March 5 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli occupation forces, broke into Al Aqsa Mosque from Bab el Magharba gate on Thursday. Nearly 76 settlers, 17 talmudic students and 70 Israeli employees toured the mosque yards ....

Syria intercepts Israeli missiles over Quneitra

Date: 2020-03-05 05:28:41 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:8339923

DAMASCUS, March 5 (MENA) - Syrian air defenses have intercepted Israeli missiles near Homs in central Syria and Quneitra in the south, state media reported Thursday. "At 00:30 on Thursday our air defense monitored Israeli warplanes coming from ....

Arab foreign ministers reiterate their rejection of Trump's peace plan

Date: 2020-03-04 23:07:56 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:84 - ID:8339786

CAIRO, March 4 (MENA) - Arab foreign ministers reiterated their rejection of the US-Israeli peace plan, announced in late January, for failing to meet even the minimum rights and aspirations of the Palestinian people. During the 153rd session of ....

Iranian president: Coronavirus has affected almost all Iranian provinces

Date: 2020-03-04 11:13:56 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:8338753

TEHRAN, March 4 (MENA) - An outbreak of novel coronavirus has affected almost all of Iran’s provinces, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, according to the official presidency website. Russia Today quoted the Iranian president as saying ....

Relief operations in Syria's Idlib overwhelmed: U.N. official

Date: 2020-03-04 06:07:21 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:8338280

ANKARA, March 4 (MENA) - Relief operations to meet the needs of nearly 1 million people who fled recent fighting in northwest Syria's Idlib have been overwhelmed, the U.N. aid chief said as the United States and Britain pledged to step up aid ....

Israel arrests 9 Palestinians in WB

Date: 2020-03-03 14:31:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:8337375

RAMALLAH, March 3 (MENA) - Israel arrested on Tuesday nine Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank. In a statement wired by Palestinian news agency WAFA, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said Israeli forces detained two in Jericho, two in ....

Coronavirus shatters trust in Iran’s leaders after cases surge: FT

Date: 2020-03-03 12:41:39 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:8337270

LONDON, March 3 (MENA) - In less than two weeks the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Iran has jumped from two to more than 2,300, shaking public trust in the Iranian regime’s capacity to contain the disease and exacerbating the country’s ....

Scores of settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2020-03-02 12:25:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8335405

RAMALLAH, March 2 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers, backed by Israeli occupation forces, broke into Al Aqsa Mosque from Bab el Magharba gate on Monday. Nearly 226 settlers toured the mosque yards in a provocative way, the Islamic Awqaf Ministry ....