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Israeli occupation forces shut down checkpoint near Jerusalem

Date: 2019-07-07 06:30:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:8012969

RAMALLAH, July 7 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces shut down late on Saturday the Jaba checkpoint, in northeastern occupied Jerusalem, to the Palestinian traffic, allegedly after a Palestinian driver rammed his car into Israeli soldiers manning the ....

Ousting Turkey's central bank governor reignites concern about its independence - paper

Date: 2019-07-06 11:32:12 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:8011991

WASHINGTON, July 6 (MENA) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unexpectedly removed Murat Cetinkaya as central bank governor, weeks after he was said to refuse an informal request to resign. The decision to oust him risks a market backlash just ....

Turkey fires central bank governor

Date: 2019-07-06 06:47:58 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:8011703

ANKARA, July 6 (MENA) - Turkey fired its central bank governor Saturday and replaced him with the bank’s deputy governor, a presidential decree published on the official gazette showed. Murat Cetinkaya was removed from the role and replaced by ....

16 Palestinians injured by Israeli fire on Gaza border

Date: 2019-07-05 18:27:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:8011407

GAZA CITY, July 5 (MENA) - Around 16 Palestinians were injured by Israeli troops' gunfire in the Great March of Return protests along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday. The Great ....

Gibraltar obtains order extending detention of Iranian tanker by 14 days

Date: 2019-07-05 16:57:33 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:8011339

LONDON, July 5 (MENA) - Gibraltar said on Friday it had obtained an order extending the detention of the Iranian Grace I supertanker by 14 days because there were grounds to believe it was breaking sanctions by taking oil to Syria, Irish Times ....

Israeli settlers storm Sebastia archaeological site in Nablus

Date: 2019-07-05 09:14:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:8010577

RAMALLAH, July 5 (MENA) - Tens of Israeli settlers stormed on Friday the Sebastia archaeological site in north of Nablus. Mayor of Sebastia Mohamed Azem said in press statements Friday that the move was taken under the protection of the Israeli ....

UK seizure of Iranian oil tanker amounts to sea piracy: Official

Date: 2019-07-04 21:54:20 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:95 - ID:8010318

TEHRAN, July 4 (MENA) - An official with Iran's Foreign Ministry described UK move to seize Iranian oil tanker as sea piracy, saying that Iran will use its political and legal capacities to release the tanker and regain its rights, IRNA news agency ....

WFP scales-up food assistance as needs rise in Gaza

Date: 2019-07-04 19:20:26 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:85 - ID:8010249

GENEVA, July 4 (MENA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Palestine has expanded its operations to reach an additional 12,000 non-refugees in Gaza facing deep poverty and severe food insecurity. The increase, which has been ....

Three Israeli protesters arrested for assaulting police officer

Date: 2019-07-04 18:59:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:8010100

GAZA CITY, July 4 (MENA) - Three suspects were arrested on Thursday for assaulting an Israeli police officer and damaging his police car on Tuesday near Ramla, the Jerusalem Post reported. The officer stopped his car close to protesters who were ....

Iran summons British ambassador in Tehran over ‘illegal seizure’ of oil tanker

Date: 2019-07-04 16:17:01 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:8009932

TEHRAN, July 4 (MENA) - Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran over the “illegal seizure” of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday, Iranian state TV quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi as saying. British Royal Marines ....