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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LONDON, Aug 20 (MENA) - The armed factions have withdrawn form Khan Shaykhun town and villages of Hama countryside, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Tuesday.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 ....
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Israeli forces detain 27 Palestinians from West Bank
Date: 2019-08-19 12:37:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:8068364
RAMALLAH, Aug 19 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained early Monday 27 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank but mainly from the Ramallah district, including a 69-year-old man from Bethlehem area, said the Palestinian Prisoner Club ....
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Israel in panic over failure to break Palestinian will - ministry
Date: 2019-08-19 12:30:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:8068624
RAMALLAH, Aug 19 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the failure to break the strong will of Palestinians made Israeli occupation hysterical about whatever is Palestinian in East Jerusalem. The panic and hysteria Israel feels is seen ....
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3 killed, 12 injured in airstrike on Turkish military convoy in Syria
Date: 2019-08-19 12:24:02 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:8068649
ANKARA, Aug 19 (MENA) - The Turkish Defense Ministry said Monday that three people were killed and 12 others wounded in an airstrike on its military convoy in Syria, Al Arabiya reported without giving more details. Earlier today, Syrian ....
