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UN: Worse may still come in Syria, after airstrikes in Idlib
Date: 2018-06-11 14:26:25 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:7440020
GENEVA, June 11 (MENA) - The UN humanitarian agency's top official for Syria is expressing concern about recent airstrikes in rebel-held Idlib province, warning that "we may have not seen the worst of the crisis" in Syria even after 7 years of ....
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EU provides €15 million to support families in need in Palestine
Date: 2018-06-11 11:46:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:7439485
RAMALLAH, June 11 (MENA) - The European Union made a contribution of €15 million to the Palestinian Authority payment of social allowances to poor families in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It will contribute to payments made to around 65,839 ....
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Israeli army conducts military exercises south Nablus
Date: 2018-06-11 11:08:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7439417
RAMALLAH, June 11 (MENA) - Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, complained on Monday that Israeli army military training in their area has destroyed their crops, WAFA news agency reported on ....
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Israel carries out limited incursion into central Gaza
Date: 2018-06-11 10:38:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7439306
GAZA CITY, June 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces conducted a limited incursion east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday morning, witnesses said. Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, were seen destroying farmers' ....
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Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians from West Bank, including journalist
Date: 2018-06-11 10:07:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7439346
RAMALLAH, June 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained on Monday 11 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank, including a journalist, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said that the occupation forces detained ....
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Sana: Terrorists set fire to planted lands in Quneitra
Date: 2018-06-10 13:34:29 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7438175
DAMASCUS, June 10 (MENA) - Terrorist groups set fire to dozens of dunams planted with trees and wheat in the area of Kroum al-Hamria and villages of Jabba in the northern countryside of Quneitra, Sana news agency reported Sunday. On Saturday ....
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Assad denies Russia makes decisions for him
Date: 2018-06-10 11:04:30 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7437814
DAMASCUS, June 10 (MENA) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad denied that military ally Russia was making decisions for him, but said it was natural for there to be differences of opinion between allies, in an interview published on Sunday by state ....
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Palestinian leadership rejected UN envoy meeting on Gaza -- official
Date: 2018-06-10 11:01:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7437821
RAMALLAH, June 10 (MENA) - The Palestinian leadership has refused to attend a meeting called for by UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, said a member of the ....
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Iran says couldn't wait EU 'vague promises'
Date: 2018-06-10 10:00:02 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7437748
TEHRAN, June 10 (MENA) - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has said that Tehran cannot wait for too long to see if Europe can preserve the nuclear deal, calling on Europeans to announce their clear decision sooner. "The Islamic Republic ....
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Israeli navy targets Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast
Date: 2018-06-09 11:33:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7436657
GAZA CITY, June 9 (MENA) - Israeli gunboats on Saturday fired at Palestinian fishing boats sailing off the coast of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said. None was harmed. In the West Bank, Israeli forces mounted a search and arrest ....