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Rouhani to be questioned by parliament

Date: 2018-08-01 07:54:31 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7513629

TEHRAN, Aug 1 (MENA) - Iranian Parliament garnered the needed votes to question President Hassan Rouhani over the country’s economic issues, the Iranian news agency Mehr reported. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said a total number of 92 out of ....

Head of Revolutionary Guards rejects Trump's offer of talks with Tehran

Date: 2018-08-01 06:46:40 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:7513577

TEHRAN, Aug 1 (MENA) - Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRG) Mohammad Ali Jafari has rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer of talks with Tehran, saying the Islamic Republic was not North Korea. "Mr Trump! Iran is not North Korea to ....

Israeli army faces Druze rising anger due to nation-state law - report

Date: 2018-07-31 22:14:26 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:7513271

GAZA CITY, July 31 (MENA) - Israeli chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot urged soldiers to leave politics “outside the confines of the army” and praised the contributions of Druze and other minorities to the defense of the state, The Times of Israel ....

Jordan, Palestine ink memo in housing field

Date: 2018-07-31 16:09:30 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:7513092

AMMAN, July 31 (MENA) - Jordanian Minister of Public Works and Housing Yehia Alkasbi signed on Tuesday with his Palestinian counterpart Mufid Al-Hasayneh a memorandum of understanding in the field of roads, housing and tenders. The two sides ....

Israel informs 6 Palestinian families of home demolition orders

Date: 2018-07-31 12:37:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7512485

RAMALLAH, July 31 (MENA) - The Israeli authorities informed owners of six homes in the village of al-Walajeh, northwest of Bethlehem, that their homes will be demolished because they were built without permit, local activist Ibrahim Awadallah said ....

Israeli forces shoot 2 Palestinians near Gaza border

Date: 2018-07-30 18:37:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:7511962

GAZA CITY, July 30 (MENA) - Two Palestinians on Monday were shot and injured by Israeli forces near the border with the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted Palestinian sources as saying on Monday. The pair were among a group of ....

10th round of Astana talks on Syria kicks off in Russia's Sochi

Date: 2018-07-30 10:27:28 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:7510911

CAIRO, July 30 (MENA) - The 10th round of Astana talks on the Syrian crisis kicked off on Monday in the Russian city of Sochi where several closed meetings are expected to be held between the participants. Representatives of the guarantor nations ....

Israel allocates dlrs 1.23mn for settlement project in E. Jerusalem

Date: 2018-07-30 09:20:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7510801

RAMALLAH, July 30 (MENA) - Israel has allocated 1.23 million dollars for building a Jewish heritage center in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem. The project will be launched under the watch of heavy security this ....

Israeli forces detain 17 Palestinians, including four journalists, from West Bank

Date: 2018-07-30 08:31:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7510756

RAMALLAH, July 30 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained on Monday 17 Palestinians, including four journalists, from various areas of the West Bank during pre-dawn raids at their homes, according to Palestinian security sources. They told WAFA that ....

Israel cancels residence permits of two Italians who drew graffiti of Ahed Tamimi

Date: 2018-07-30 08:15:11 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7510719

GAZA CITY, July 30 (MENA) - Israel's Population and Immigration Authority canceled on Sunday night the residence permits of the two Italian citizens who were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of damaging the separation wall in the West Bank, Ynet ....