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Japan won't join US-led maritime coalition but may send MSDF to gulf separately
Date: 2019-09-03 07:07:19 GMT - Japan - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:8088125
TOKYO, Sept 3 (MENA) - Japan will not join a US-led security mission to protect merchant vessels passing through key Middle Eastern waterways, but will consider deploying its naval force independently, The Japan Times reported Tuesday. Though the ....
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Lebanon slams Turkish response to Aoun's speech
Date: 2019-09-02 17:01:02 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:8087688
BEIRUT, Sept 2 (MENA) - The Lebanese Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Ministry deplored Monday the statement issued by the Turkish Foreign Ministry in response to President Michel Aoun’s address marking the start of the first centenary of the ....
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Russian envoy to ME, Israeli amb. mull Lebanese-Israeli tensions
Date: 2019-09-02 13:59:55 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:8087391
MOSCOW, Sept 2 (MENA) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov and Israeli Ambassador to Russia Gary Koren discussed the recent tensions on the Lebanese-Israeli border, the Russian ....
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China appoints new Middle East special envoy
Date: 2019-09-02 13:45:25 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:8087386
BEIJING, Sept 2 (MENA) - Senior diplomat Zhai Jun has been appointed as China's new special envoy for Middle East affairs, State news agency Xinhua quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang as saying on Monday. Zhai, who served as ....
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Israeli settlers storm into Al Aqsa Mosque
Date: 2019-09-02 13:03:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:8087167
RAMALLAH, Sept 2 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed Monday Al Aqsa mosque, through al Maghariba gate, guarded by Israeli occupation forces. As many as 102 settlers broke into the holy mosque in successive groups since the morning, ....
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Prisoners start open-ended hunger strike demanding better conditions
Date: 2019-09-02 12:05:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:8087169
RAMALLAH, Sept 2 (MENA) - More than 200 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jail of Rimon started on Monday an open-ended hunger strike in protest against installation of jamming devices in the prison, which they fear cause cancer. They also ....
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Response to south developments considered, appropriate: Lebanese FM
Date: 2019-09-02 10:38:12 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:8086820
BEIRUT, Sept 2 (MENA) - The level of response regarding the recent security developments along Lebanon's southern borders was fully considered and appropriate, said Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil on Monday. In a statement, Lebanon's ....
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Lavrov: talk about Syrian regime's failure to secure proper conditions for refugees' return "politicized"
Date: 2019-09-02 10:18:17 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8086829
MOSCOW, Sept 2 (MENA) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that all talk about the Syrian government's failure to create proper conditions for the return of refugees is politicized and biased. Delivering a speech at the Moscow ....
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Israel launches spy balloon off Mays al-Jabal
Date: 2019-09-02 09:32:32 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:8086831
BEIRUT, Sept 2 (MENA) - The Israeli army launched Monday morning a spying air balloon in the Assi area facing Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. The Israeli army also pursued this morning excavations works and lifted earth ....
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Israel arrests 12 Palestinians in WB
Date: 2019-09-02 07:25:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8086663
RAMALLAH, Sept 2 (MENA) - At least 12 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli troops as part of a wide-scale campaign in the West Bank. Seven citizens were arrested in Hebron and one university student in Ramallah, Palestinian sources said ....
