Middle East
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Kushner threatens to abandon Mideast plan B
Date: 2018-07-23 20:09:15 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:7501960
NEW YORK, July 23 (MENA) - Five months ago, Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, began quietly shifting his focus from brokering a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians to tackling the dire humanitarian crisis ....
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Turkish army kills 11 PKK militants in northern Iraq
Date: 2018-07-23 17:28:19 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:7501851
ANKARA, July 23 (MENA) - Turkish army killed on Monday 11 members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in airstrikes on eastern Turkey and northern Iraq, Radio Sawa reported. The Turkish general staff said the airstrikes were conducted between ....
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Erekat: We will address UN on legality of Jewish nation-state law with UN Charter
Date: 2018-07-23 14:26:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7501474
RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - Palestine assigned its ambassador to the United Nations (UN) to address the legal department in the UN about the legality of the Jewish nation-state law which was passed by the Knesset with the UN Charter, said the Head of ....
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Lavrov to discuss bilateral relations, regional situation during visit to Israel
Date: 2018-07-23 13:49:27 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:7501472
MOSCOW, July 23 (MENA) - Russian top diplomat Sergey Lavrov is setting off for a visit to Israel on Monday in order to discuss relations between the two countries and the situation in the region, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a ....
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Large stone of Al Aqsa Mosque's western wall falls
Date: 2018-07-23 12:05:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7501302
RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - A large stone fell on Monday from the southwestern side of the wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque, a matter which raised anger and fear of the Islamic Waqf department in Al Quds city, according to eyewitnesses. The accident ....
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12 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in W.Bank
Date: 2018-07-23 10:14:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:7501101
RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - Twelve Palestinian citizens were arrested on Monday by Israeli forces in the West Bank. In a press release, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that five Palestinians were arrested in Burqa and Beita towns in Nablus, ....
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Palestinian president greets Sisi on July 23 Revolution anniv.
Date: 2018-07-23 09:29:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7501085
RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday greeted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on the 66th anniversary of the July 23 Revolution, the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported. In his greeting cable to ....
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Potential halt of UNRWA education services "catastrophic": Education Ministry
Date: 2018-07-23 09:11:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7500986
RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education on Monday warned against the repercussions of a potential halt of education services provided by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) within ....
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Palestinian minor killed by Israeli forces near Bethlehem
Date: 2018-07-23 06:43:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:7500874
RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) – A Palestinian minor was killed while two others were wounded during clashes that broke out with Israeli forces on Monday in Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem in the south of the occupied West Bank, according to ....
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Islamophobia observatory decries al Aqsa mosque storming by ultra-Orthodox Jews
Date: 2018-07-22 14:55:48 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:7500269
CAIRO, July 22 (MENA) - The Islamophobia observatory of Egypt's Dar Al Ifta (Ifta House) strongly condemned on Sunday the raid by of more than 1000 Jewish settlers on Al Aqsa mosque compound and performing Talmudic rituals to mark Tisha B'Av event, ....