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Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza

Date: 2018-10-03 18:17:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:104 - ID:7605369

RAMALLAH, Oct 3 (MENA) - An Israeli army sniper shot Ahmed Samir Abu Habel, 15, in the head and killed him on Wednesday during protests at the northern Gaza border with Israel, according to WAFA correspondent and medical sources. They said Israeli ....

Cabinet sets phone numbers for garbage complaints

Date: 2018-10-03 17:10:30 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:95 - ID:7605262

CAIRO, Oct 3 (MENA) - The Cabinet has set two WhatsApp numbers for receiving public complaints about garbage piles. The contacts are 01555516528, and 01555525444, along with hotline number 16528. Complaints could be also filed on new website ....

Jewish settlers storm Aqsa Mosque precincts

Date: 2018-10-03 11:46:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7604436

RAMALLAH, Oct 3 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers forced their way into East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday amid tight security measures imposed by Israeli occupation forces, Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) ....

14 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in W.Bank

Date: 2018-10-03 10:14:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7604261

RAMALLAH, Oct 3 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested on Wednesday 14 Palestinians in the West Bank. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that nine Palestinians were arrested in Al Quds, two in Bethlehem and three others in Ramallah ....

Fierce clashes break out between Hay'at Tahrir al Sham, Daesh in Idlib

Date: 2018-10-03 07:39:21 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7604041

DAMASCUS, Oct 3 (MENA) - Fierce clashes broke out between elements from Hay'at Tahrir al Sham and Daesh members in Idlib countryside. A number of Daesh members were killed and injured in the clashes, Alhurra news channel quoted Syrian sources as ....

Amnesty International: Israel’s planned demolition of Khan al-Ahmar "war crime"

Date: 2018-10-02 17:02:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:7603561

RAMALLAH, Oct 2 (MENA) - The planned demolition by Israeli forces of a West Bank village and the forcible transfer of its residents to make way for illegal Jewish settlements is a war crime, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Saleh Higazi, ....

Turkey orders 417 detained in money laundering probe

Date: 2018-10-02 08:15:29 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7602307

ANKARA, Oct 2 (MENA) - Turkish media said prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 417 people suspected of money laundering for transferring 2.5 billion Turkish lira (US$423 million) to thousands of bank accounts abroad. As many as 216 of the ....

Palestinians stage all-out strike against racist Israeli law

Date: 2018-10-01 11:38:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7601006

RAMALLAH, Oct 1 (MENA) - The occupied Palestinian territories and the Palestinians in Israel observed on Monday a general strike in protest against the new racist Israeli law, the Nation-State Basic Law, WAFA reported. Life almost came to ....

Iran Guard launches missiles into Syria ‘in retaliation for Ahwaz attack’

Date: 2018-10-01 06:00:31 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:7600457

TEHRAN, Oct 1 (MENA) - Iranian state media said on Monday the country's Revolutionary Guard, known as the IRGC, fired missiles into eastern Syria in response to an attack on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahwaz last week, Al Arabiya news ....

Real Madrid honors Palestine's Ahed Tamimi

Date: 2018-09-30 12:45:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:7599604

GAZA CITY, Sept 30 (MENA) - Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi, who served an eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail, was honored by Spanish soccer club Real Madrid on Saturday after being invited to visit the team’s stadium. Tamimi, 17, was ....