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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 ....
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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 ....
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Settlers storms into Aqsa
Date: 2018-09-30 09:30:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7599119
RAMALLAH, Sept 30 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed into Aqsa Mosque on Sunday from Magharba gate guarded by Israeli forces. Among the settlers, who performed Talmudic rituals, was an extremist Knesset member. Media officer at the ....
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Armed factions pull out weapons from Idlib buffer zone -- rights group
Date: 2018-09-30 06:49:43 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:7598974
DAMASCUS, Sept 30 (MENA) - Armed factions have started pulling out their heavy weapons from a demilitarized zone in Idlib, established upon a Russia-Turkish deal to avert the region a massive military offensive by the regime army, according to a ....
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Palestine files lawsuit against US at International Court of Justice
Date: 2018-09-29 11:37:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:7598175
RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - Palestine has filed a lawsuit against the US at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the main judicial body of the UN, for violating international law by moving its embassy in Israel to the occupied city of East ....
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Al Azhar slams Israeli crimes against peaceful Gaza protesters
Date: 2018-09-29 10:45:45 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7598137
CAIRO, Sept 29 (MENA) - Al Azhar strongly condemned brutal repression committed by the Israeli forces against peaceful protesters in the Gaza Strip on Friday. The violent incidents left seven Palestinians dead most of them are children and 500 ....
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Ministerial meeting on UNRWA raises remarkable $122 million
Date: 2018-09-28 19:56:36 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:7597602
AMMAN/NEW YORK, Sept 28 (MENA) - A Ministerial Meeting, held in New York raised a remarkable US$122 million for the UN Palestine refugees agency (UNRWA), the agency said in a statement Friday. The foreign ministers of Jordan, Sweden, Turkey, ....
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Israeli forces kill 6 Palestinians, injure 500 at Gaza border
Date: 2018-09-28 17:26:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7597496
GAZA CITY, Sept 28 (MENA) - At least six Palestinians were killed and 500 others were injured by live bullets or suffered teargas inhalation on Friday as Israeli forces attacked fresh Great March of Return protests at the Gaza-Israel border, WAFA ....
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Russia hopes Israel will abide by int'l laws on Syria: official
Date: 2018-09-28 11:17:24 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:7597009
MOSCOW, Sept 28 (MENA) - Russia hopes that Israel would abide by international laws and agreements on Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Friday. Israelis have extended their condolences at all levels after Russian ....
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EU proposes additional €40 mn for UNRWA
Date: 2018-09-28 11:04:20 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7596854
BRUSSELS, Sept 28 (MENA) - The European Commission proposed additional €40 million support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the European Commission said in a press release on ....