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  • Palestinian min.: UNRWA crisis politicized at first place

    Date: 2018-08-08 09:27:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7524098

    RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) - Palestinian Labor Minister Mamoun Abu Shahla stressed that the current crisis of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) is politicized at first place. During a meeting on Wednesday with the Arab Workers' ....

  • Poor Iranians bear brunt of sanctions as food prices soar - report

    Date: 2018-08-07 19:29:35 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:7523469

    LONDON, Aug 7 (MENA) - Financial Times on Tuesday shed light on the repercussions of a US decision to reimpose economic sanctions on Iran and the suffering of Iranians as a result the soaring prices of basic goods. Tehran's municipal markets used ....

  • Israel arrests six Palestinians in West Bank

    Date: 2018-08-07 13:19:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7522814

    RAMALLAH, Aug 7 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested late Monday and early Tuesday six Palestinians in the West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said. In a statement on Tuesday, the club said two were arrested in Qarawa town and one from each of ....

  • Two Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza Strip

    Date: 2018-08-07 09:35:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7522443

    GAZA CITY, Aug 7 (MENA) - Two Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of citizens in Beit Lahia town in northern the Gaza Strip. Al Aqsa Radio said medical teams carried the bodies of the two martyrs to the ....

  • US to restore sanctions on Iran, second round to be applied on Nov. 5

    Date: 2018-08-06 20:02:15 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:97 - ID:7521923

    WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to restore nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, increasing economic pressure on Tehran and renewing his criticism of what he called a "horrible, one-sided" nuclear ....

  • Israeli settlers knock down two homes southern WB

    Date: 2018-08-06 13:43:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:62 - ID:7521189

    RAMALLAH, Aug 6 (MENA) - Israeli settlers, escorting a bulldozer, demolished on Monday two Palestinian homes at Beit al-Baraka church compound, in the north of Al Khalil city (Hebron), southern the West Bank (WB), despite the presence of a court ....

  • New Jewish "Nation-State" bill exposes Israel's hypocritical democracy

    Date: 2018-08-06 13:16:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:7520938

    RAMALLAH, Aug 6 (MENA) - Knesset Member Youssef Jabareen of the Joint (Arab) List on Monday called upon all international entities to expose Israel's violations of its commitments to the world community. The new "Jewish Nation-State bill" ....

  • PLO official says humanitarian project in Gaza paves way for "deal of century"

    Date: 2018-08-06 11:17:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:7520609

    RAMALLAH, Aug 6 (MENA) - Secretary of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat has said that the so-called "humanitarian project" in the Gaza Strip paves the way for implementing the "deal of the century". ....

  • Israeli troops arrest 16 citizens from WB including 2 journalists

    Date: 2018-08-06 11:13:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:7520732

    RAMALLAH, Aug 6 (MENA) - Israeli occupation authorities have arrested 16 Palestinian citizens from the West Bank and East Jerusalem (Al Quds) since last night, according to a statement released by the Palestinian Prisoners' Club on Monday. The ....

  • Scores of Israeli settlers storm into Aqsa

    Date: 2018-08-06 11:05:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7520939

    RAMALLAH, Aug 6 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed into Al Aqsa Mosque on Monday from Bab al Magharba guarded by Israeli police. Some 90 settlers performed Talmudic rituals in the mosque, eyewitnesses said. Consul General of Israel in ....

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