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  • China gives priority to conditions in Middle East, peace in Africa during its UNSC presidency

    Date: 2018-10-31 13:13:48 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7647881

    BEIJING, Oct 31 (MENA) - The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that conditions in the Middle East alongside security and stability in Africa will be a top priority for China during its rotating presidency of the United Nations Security ....

  • Arab meeting backs UNRWA in East Jerusalem

    Date: 2018-10-31 12:54:01 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:42 - ID:7647858

    CAIRO, Oct 31 (MENA) - The 28th joint meeting between the 79th session of Palestinian Education Affairs Council and the UNRWA declared its rejection of the Israeli announcement of getting rid of the agency's institutions in Jerusalem including ....

  • Israel tightens noose on Palestinian female prisoners in HaSharon jail

    Date: 2018-10-31 11:10:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7647691

    RAMALLAH, Oct 31 (MENA) - The Palestinian Prisoners Association warned on Wednesday that Israel is making life for Palestinian female prisoners in HaSharon prison more difficult after they refused to get out from their rooms for 56 days now. The ....

  • Erekat: Trump, Netanyahu continue destruction of two-state solution

    Date: 2018-10-31 10:31:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7647670

    RAMALLAH, Oct 31 (MENA) - Saeb Erekat, Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said Wednesday US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are continuing to destroy the ....

  • US hails outcomes of Istanbul summit on Syria

    Date: 2018-10-30 21:50:44 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:99 - ID:7647277

    BRUSSELS, Oct 30 (MENA) - The Istanbul summit on Syria took "huge steps" toward ending its civil war, but the situation remains dangerous with so many foreign armed forces in the country, a top US envoy said Tuesday. The leaders of Turkey, ....

  • Palestinian Foreign Ministry slams Israel's settlement activities

    Date: 2018-10-30 12:33:35 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:7646002

    RAMALLAH, Oct 30 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry Tuesday denounced the escalating expansion of settlements in collaboration with Israeli ministers and officials and the storming of houses in the Old Town in Hebron by Israeli ....

  • Israeli forces arrest 15 Palestinians from WB

    Date: 2018-10-30 12:31:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7646249

    RAMALLAH, Oct 30 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces have detained 15 Palestinian citizens from different parts of the West Bank, since Monday night until dawn Tuesday. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement on Tuesday that ....

  • Abbas to preside over meeting to put into force measures against Israel

    Date: 2018-10-30 11:16:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7646027

    RAMALLAH, Oct 30 (MENA) - Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee secretary general Saeb Erekat has said that president Mahmoud Abbas will on Tuesday preside over a meeting of the higher national committee he formed to ....

  • Scores of settlers storm Aqsa Mosque under Israeli occupation protection

    Date: 2018-10-30 10:52:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:7645975

    RAMALLAH, Oct 30 (MENA) - At least 140 Jewish settlers stormed al Aqsa Mosque compound from Bab el Maghreba gate under tight protection from the Israeli occupation forces. Eyewitnesses said the settlers carried out provocative tours of the holy ....

  • Palestinian national forces call for boycotting E. Jerusalem municipal elections

    Date: 2018-10-30 10:19:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:7645909

    RAMALLAH, Oct 30 (MENA) - The national and Islamic forces and popular and religious authorities in Palestine called on East Jerusalem residents to boycott the municipal elections of the Israeli occupation authorities in the holy city which will ....

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