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13 Palestinians arrested, two injured in W.Bank

Date: 2019-12-18 09:46:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:8234458

RAMALLAH, Dec 18 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested on Wednesday 13 Palestinians in the West Bank. Palestinian security sources said that a large security force stormed Dheisheh Refugee Camp, south of Bethlehem, prompting clashes with a ....

S. Korea mulling troops dispatch to Strait of Hormuz

Date: 2019-12-18 09:30:54 GMT - south korea - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:8234410

SEOUL, Dec 18 (MENA) - South Korea has been reviewing various options, including troop dispatch, as to what role it can play to safeguard the Strait of Hormuz, Yonhap news agency quoted South Korean officials as saying Wednesday. Amid tensions ....

Palestinian amb. urges Brazil to backpedal on opening trade office in Jerusalem

Date: 2019-12-18 09:13:02 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8234408

CAIRO, Dec 18 (MENA) - Palestinian Ambassador here Diab el Louh on Wednesday urged Brazil to backpedal on its decision to open a trade office in Jerusalem. In press statements, he said that the Arab League Council will hold an extraordinary ....

Russia to invest $500m in Syrian port of Tartus

Date: 2019-12-18 09:02:21 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:8234413

LONDON, Dec 18 (MENA) - Russia will invest $500m in the port of Tartus in its largest ever investment in Syria, as Moscow seeks to leverage its position as the most powerful foreign player in the war-torn country, The Financial Times newspaper ....

Iran president to make 2-day visit to Japan from Friday

Date: 2019-12-17 12:57:28 GMT - Japan - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:8233325

TOKYO, Dec 17 (MENA) - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani will visit Japan from Friday to meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Japanese government said Tuesday. The two-day visit comes amid the U.S.-Iran standoff over a landmark nuclear deal ....

Russia suggests alternative to West’s draft resolution on Syria aid at UN

Date: 2019-12-17 12:42:53 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:8233162

MOSCOW, Dec 17 (MENA) - Russia has submitted to the UN Security Council its draft resolution on delivering humanitarian aid to Syria as an alternative to a document suggested by Germany, Belgium and Kuwait, TASS news agency reported on Tuesday. A ....

We will continue to address Turkish provocations with cautiousness: Cyprus

Date: 2019-12-17 07:25:36 GMT - Cyprus - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:8232902

NICOSIA, Dec 17 (MENA) - Cypriot Defense Minister Savvas Angelides said that Cyprus will continue to address the Turkish provocations in the exclusive economic zone with cautiousness, adding that responding to these provocations in the same way that ....

Israeli occupation forces demolish house in Jerusalem

Date: 2019-12-17 07:17:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:8232916

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Bulldozers of the Israeli occupation forces demolished on Tuesday a section of a Palestinian house in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya under the pretext that it was built without a permit, Wafa News ....

Palestine calls for designating settlers who attack Palestinians as terrorists

Date: 2019-12-16 15:17:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:8232239

RAMALLAH, Dec 16 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry Monday called on world governments to place Jewish settlers involved in attacking and terrorizing the Palestinian population in the occupied territories on their terrorist lists and ban them ....

Israeli forces arrest 22 Palestinians in West Bank raids

Date: 2019-12-16 12:41:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8231600

RAMALLAH, Dec 16 (MENA) - Israeli forces today rounded up 22 Palestinians and assaulted others across the occupied West Bank, WAFA quoted the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPC) as saying. It said in a press statement that eight Palestinians were ....