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Palestine International Book Fair kicks off

Date: 2018-05-03 12:34:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:7381716

RAMALLAH, May 3 (MENA) - The Palestinian Culture Ministry announced the opening of 11th Palestine International Book Fair Thursday with the participation of more than 500 Palestinian, Arab and foreign publishing houses. The ten-day fair kicked ....

Palestinian teen succumbs to wounds sustained in Gaza protests

Date: 2018-05-03 10:38:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:7381354

GAZA CITY, May 3 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth has succumbed to wounds he sustained in an attack by Israeli occupation forces on protesters east Gaza on Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced Thursday. Ans Shawqy Abu Asr, 19, died this ....

Palestinian FM: All attempts to move embassies to Jerusalem to fail

Date: 2018-05-02 17:11:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:7380644

RAMALLAH, May 2 (MENA) - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al Maliki stressed on Wednesday that any attempt to transfer more embassies to al Quds (West Jerusalem) will fail. In a press statement, Maliki said that his country will take all ....

Jewish settlers storm into Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2018-05-02 10:20:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:7379734

RAMALLAH, May 2 (MENA) - Jewish settlers stormed on Wednesday into Al Aqsa Mosque through Al Magharebah gate under tight security measures imposed by Israeli forces. Eyewitnesses said the settlers carried out provocative tours inside the mosque's ....

PNC continues sessions

Date: 2018-05-02 09:56:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7379695

RAMALLAH, May 2 (MENA) - The 23rd round of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) reconvened in Ramallah for the third straight day. The sessions tackle whether the Palestinians would be able to continue to implement their commitments to the ....

Japan: embassy will not be relocated to Quds

Date: 2018-05-02 09:06:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7379696

RAMALLAH, May 2 (MENA) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asserted that his country will not be relocating its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Al Quds. Abe's assertion came during a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in ....

Netanyahu: European delegations will come to examine Iran evidence

Date: 2018-05-01 21:54:14 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:7379240

GAZA CITY, May 1 (MENA) - Delegations from Germany, France and the United Kingdom plan to arrive in Israel as early as this weekend to study a trove of 100,000 Iranian nuclear documents Israel secretly managed to obtain from a hidden vault in ....

White House says Iran has secret nuclear weapons program

Date: 2018-05-01 10:46:40 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7378450

WASHINGTON, May 1 (MENA) - The White House revised a public statement that said that Iran currently has a secret nuclear weapons program, an assertion that contradicts what international observers have concluded. White House press secretary Sarah ....

Israel continues violating sanctity of Bab al Rahma cemetery

Date: 2018-05-01 09:11:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7378259

RAMALLAH, May 1 (MENA) - Israeli forces stormed on Tuesday Bab al Rahma cemetery which is near the eastern wall of Aqsa Mosque. Israel continued digging and zoning works in the cemetery for the third day in a row in order to occupy parts of it to ....

Abbas calls on National Council to adopt his Security Council initiative

Date: 2018-04-30 22:35:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:124 - ID:7378059

RAMALLAH, April 30 (MENA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Monday called on the Palestinian National Council to adopt the initiative he made at the United Nations Security Council in February, WAFA reported on Monday. He said during a ....