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  • Israeli occupation forces arrest number of youths in Al Quds

    Date: 2017-10-29 09:16:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7063448

    RAMALLAH, Oct 29 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Sunday arrested a number of youths from various districts of the old city of Al Quds and led them to detention centers. The arrests come in the wake of the detention of al Quds preacher Raed ....

  • Netanyahu delays vote on bill annexing Greater Jerusalem after US frowns on it

    Date: 2017-10-29 09:03:44 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7063440

    GAZA CITY, Oct 29 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed on Saturday an initial vote on the Greater Jerusalem bill, after some of his coalition partners opposed it and the US appeared to frown on it, Israeli newspaper Jerusalem ....

  • Palestine Foreign Ministry: Israeli army exercise organized state terrorism, protects settlers’ terrorism

    Date: 2017-10-28 21:32:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:62 - ID:7063208

    RAMALLAH, Oct 28 (MENA) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry asserted that Israeli occupation army is exercising "organized state terrorism" and protecting settlers’ terrorism. In a press release on Saturday, the ministry said the settlers, under ....

  • Turkey arrests 49 Daesh-linked suspects in Ankara

    Date: 2017-10-28 15:20:32 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:7062811

    ANKARA, Oct 28 (MENA) - Turkey on Saturday arrested 49 suspects linked to Daesh terrorist organization in the capital Ankara, according to police officials. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the ....

  • Israeli forces attack olive harvesters, supporters in village near Nablus

    Date: 2017-10-28 12:09:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:7062487

    RAMALLAH, Oct 28 (MENA) - Israeli forces attacked Palestinian farmers and supporters as they harvested olives in the Nablus area village of al Sawiyeh, according to Ghassan Daghlas, a local official. He said that the soldiers assaulted a ....

  • Fire at Tehran oil refinery kills six, says Iran's state-run TV

    Date: 2017-10-27 16:44:55 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7061598

    TEHRAN, Oct 27 (MENA) - A fire killed six workers and injured three others at an oil refinery in Tehran's Shar-e Rey district on Friday, The New York Times cited Iran's state TV as reporting. "The fire broke out in one of the refinery's units, ....

  • Missile fired from Yemen at civilian populated area in Saudi Arabia

    Date: 2017-10-27 15:06:40 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7061446

    RIYADH, Oct 27 (MENA) - Spokesman for the Arab Coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen Colonel Turki al-Maliki stated that on the early hours of Friday a ballistic missile from Yemen was fired towards Saudi Arabia's southern border, Al Arabiya News ....

  • Palestinian presidency calls May’s remarks on Balfour Declaration “ political insolence”

    Date: 2017-10-27 15:04:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:7061296

    RAMALLAH, Oct 27 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Palestinian Presidency Tayeb Abdul Rahim has dismissed as a political insolence the comments of British Prime Minister Theresa May, who said that she will celebrate the centenary of the Balfour ....

  • 6 Houthi militants killed in clashes with tribesmen in Yemen

    Date: 2017-10-27 14:34:02 GMT - Yemen - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:7061387

    ADEN, Yemen, Oct 27 (MENA) - Six Houthi militants were killed in fierce clashes with a local tribe in al Bayda Province in Yemen. The face-off left three tribesmen injured, Yemeni News Agency (Saba) quoted a local source as saying on Friday. ....

  • Senior Hamas official wounded in car bombing in Gaza

    Date: 2017-10-27 13:16:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:7061259

    GAZA, Oct 27 (MENA) - Head of Hamas security apparatus in Gaza Tawfiq Abu Naim was wounded on Friday when a bomb planted inside his car exploded west of Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza City. Unidentified men detonated the bomb as Abu Naim ....

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