Middle East
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Booby-trapped car explodes in northern Iraq
Date: 2019-06-03 11:56:31 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:7966887
BAGHDAD, June 3 (MENA) - A booby-trapped car went off in the northern Iraqi governorate of Nineveh on Monday, according to an Iraqi security source. No injuries were reported as Iraqi security forces detonated the car in Nineveh's Mosul, ....
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Trump: Pompeo 'may be right' in casting doubt on Middle East plan
Date: 2019-06-03 09:05:45 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7966580
WASHINGTON, June 3 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "may be right" in casting doubt on the administration's long-awaited Middle East peace plan. "Look, we’re doing our best to help the Middle East to get ....
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Trump urges Russia, Iran to stop bombing Syria's Idlib
Date: 2019-06-03 08:57:42 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7966582
WASHINGTON, June 3 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump on Monday urged Russia, Syria and Iran to stop alleged bombing of the Syrian province of Idlib. "Hearing word that Russia, Syria, and to a lesser extent, Iran, are bombing the "hell out" of ....
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Kushner expresses doubt that Palestinians can self-govern
Date: 2019-06-03 08:34:19 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:7966571
WASHINGTON, June 3 (MENA) - White House senior adviser Jared Kushner has expressed uncertainty over the ability of Palestinians to self-govern, in a rare television interview broadcast on Sunday night. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law ....
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Netanyahu fires 2 ministers, opening the door to Peretz, Smotrich
Date: 2019-06-02 16:49:02 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:7965989
GAZA CITY, June 2 (MENA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent letters of dismissal on Sunday to Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who ran in the April 9 election with the New Right Party that did not ....
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Israeli forces detain 50 Palestinians in West Bank, Jerusalem
Date: 2019-06-02 12:06:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7965524
RAMALLAH, June 2 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained at least 50 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS said Israeli police arrested about 40 Palestinians ....
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Palestinian gov't refuses to receive deduced tax revenues from Israel
Date: 2019-06-02 11:35:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:7965490
RAMALLAH, June 2 (MENA) - Spokesman for the Palestinian Government in the West Bank Ibrahim Melhem said Israel withholds 40 million shekels [around $11 million] monthly from the Palestinian funds, which amounts to about 800 million shekels [around ....
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AL condemns Israel's decision to build 800 settlement units in occupied E.Jerusalem
Date: 2019-06-02 11:12:20 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7965441
CAIRO, June 2 (MENA) - The Arab League vehemently condemned Israel's decision to build more than 800 settlement units in the occupied East Jerusalem. In statements on Sunday, AL Assistant Secretary General for Palestinian territories and occupied ....
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Palestinian Foreign Ministry urges int'l community to shoulder its responsibilities towards al Quds
Date: 2019-06-02 10:41:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:7965346
RAMALLAH, June 2 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Ministry has strongly condemned the Israeli aggression on al Aqsa Mosque and schemes to judaize the holy site, urging the international community and UN organizations to ....
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Palestinian Awqaf Ministry condemns Israeli attack on Al-Aqsa
Date: 2019-06-02 10:29:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7965426
RAMALLAH, June 2 (MENA) - The Ministry of Awqaf (Endowments) and Religious Affairs condemned today the Israeli police’s attack on Muslim worshipers in the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque and the closure of the southern ceiled building in the ....