Middle East
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Israel closes road leading to Ibrahimi Mosque
Date: 2019-09-04 10:44:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:8089799
RAMALLAH, Sept 4 (MENA) - Israeli forces on Wednesday installed cement blocks closing one of the roads leading to the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. The road was closed until further notice, human rights activist Aref Jaber said. Palestinian Chief ....
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AL:UNRWA symbolizes int'l responsibility toward Palestinian refugees
Date: 2019-09-04 09:46:22 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8089711
CAIRO, Sept 4 (MENA) - Arab League (AL) assistant secretary general for Palestinian and occupied Arab lands affairs Dr Saeed Abu Ali said the UNRWA symbolizes the international community's responsibility toward the Palestinian refugees within its ....
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Palestinian activists shut down ICRC premises in Beira
Date: 2019-09-04 07:26:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:8089523
RAMALLAH, Sept 4 (MENA) - Palestinian activists and families of prisoners on Wednesday shut down the premises of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the city of Beira in Ramallah of the West Bank in protest against the conditions ....
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US slaps new sanctions on 3 Iranian space facilities
Date: 2019-09-03 21:12:16 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:76 - ID:8089315
WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (MENA) - The United States has imposed sanctions on Iran's civilian space agency and two of its research institutes, saying they are being used to advance Tehran's missile program. The new sanctions target the Iran Space ....
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Iran oil tanker goes missing off Syrian coast after being released
Date: 2019-09-03 20:16:08 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:8089313
LONDON, Sept 3 (MENA) - The tanker at the center of a diplomatic row between Iran and Britain "went dark" yesterday night off the coast of Syria, where it is suspected she may be delivering a controversial cargo of Iranian crude oil, The Telegraph ....
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Iraqi security arrests 4 Daesh terrorists in Mosul
Date: 2019-09-03 11:18:28 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:8088458
BAGHDAD, Sept 3 (MENA) - Iraq's Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday it arrested four Daesh elements in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate. Three of the arrested terrorists were fighters at the so-called Diwan al Jund while Daesh was controlling ....
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Houthi militants tapped absence of accountability for int'l law breaches: observers
Date: 2019-09-03 11:04:28 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:8088408
GENEVA, Sept 3 (MENA) - Houthi militants and their affiliate popular committees have exploited the absence of accountability for breaches of international human rights laws, the UN team set up to monitor violations in Yemen said on Tuesday. In ....
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Palestinian report: 12 Palestinians killed, 450 detained in August
Date: 2019-09-03 11:02:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:8088270
RAMALLAH, Sept 3 (MENA) - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s Abdullah Hourani Center for Studies and Documentation said Israel killed 12 Palestinians, including a child, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in August. According to the ....
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Israeli forces detain 22 Palestinians from WB
Date: 2019-09-03 10:31:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:8088404
RAMALLAH, Sept 3 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces detained Tuesday 22 Palestinians during crackdowns on their homes in the occupied West Bank, mostly from Hebron area, Wafa news quoted the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) as saying on ....
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Prisoners call off hunger strike in Israeli prison a day after starting it
Date: 2019-09-03 07:26:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8088154
RAMALLAH, Sept 3 (MENA) - More than 200 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jail of Rimon ended Tuesday their hunger strike that they started yesterday in protest against installation of jamming devices in the prison, which they fear cause cancer, ....