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Palestinian foreign ministry deplores Israel's confiscation of lands in W. Bank
Date: 2018-08-14 11:25:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7532769
RAMALLAH, Aug 14 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned in the strongest terms the scooping and confiscation of lands in the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry lashed out at the ruling right-wing party's ....
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29 Palestinians arrested in W.Bank
Date: 2018-08-14 09:02:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7532593
RAMALLAH, Aug 14 (MENA) - Twenty-nine Palestinians were arrested on Tuesday by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that eight Palestinian citizens, including two women, were arrested in ....
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Russian military downs 5 drones near Syria's Hmeymim air base
Date: 2018-08-13 20:18:25 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:95 - ID:7532237
MOSCOW, Aug 13 (MENA) - Russian air defenses at the Hmeymim airbase shot down on Monday five attack drones launched by militants operating in Syria's de-escalation zone of Idlib, Sputnik quoted Maj. Gen. Alexei Tsygankov, head of the Russian Center ....
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Emergency cancer medicines sent to Gaza Strip
Date: 2018-08-13 13:12:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:7531210
RAMALLAH, Aug 13 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Health on Monday said that it had sent three months’ supply of cancer medicines to its warehouses in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian News Network (PNN) reported. Officials indicated that they had ....
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11 Palestinians arrested in W.Bank
Date: 2018-08-13 12:42:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:7531213
RAMALLAH, Aug 13 (MENA) - Eleven Palestinians were arrested by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank. In a statement on Monday, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that three Palestinian citizens were arrested in Jenin, two Palestinians in ....
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Lebanese FM visits Moscow next week for talks on Syrian refugees
Date: 2018-08-13 09:27:12 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7530961
BEIRUT, Aug 13 (MENA) - Lebanese Foreign Minster Gebran Bassil will visit Moscow next week for talks on the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the file of Syrian refugees with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, well-informed Lebanese sources said ....
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Israeli forces decide to demolish house of martyr Dar-Yousef
Date: 2018-08-13 08:19:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7530958
RAMALLAH, Aug 13 (MENA) - Israeli forces decided to demolish the house of the family of martyr Mohamed Tareq Dar-Yousef in Kuber town, northwest of Ramallah. Palestinian sources said the army stormed into the town and hanged a demolition notice ....
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Palestinian injured by Israeli army gunfire in Gaza succumbs to wounds
Date: 2018-08-13 06:46:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:7530868
GAZA CITY, Aug 13 (MENA) - A Palestinian man died on Monday night of wounds he sustained on May 14 in the Great Return March protests at the Gaza border with Israel, according to medical sources. The sources said that Wissam Yousef Hijazi, 30, ....
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Turkish Lira plunges to fresh record low
Date: 2018-08-12 21:35:15 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:101 - ID:7530737
ANKARA, Aug 12 (MENA) - The Turkish lira sank to a fresh record low of 7.22 to the dollar, as investor worries over the state of the economy and deteriorating ties with the United States continued to drag down the currency, Sky News reported. The ....
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Ghazni city’s all strategic parts under full control of Afghan army
Date: 2018-08-12 16:28:25 GMT - Afghanistan - Middle East - SN:80 - ID:7530489
KABUL, Aug 12 (MENA) - The Afghan National Army Chief of Staff General Sharif Yaftali confirmed that sporadic clashes continue in some parts of Ghazni city, the provincial capital of Ghazni province. Speaking during a press conference in Kabul, ....