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China welcomes IAEA report on Iran's compliance with nuclear deal

Date: 2017-09-01 18:47:37 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:6971812

BEIJING, Sept 1 (MENA) – China has welcomed a report issued by Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano in which he confirmed Iran was compliant with a nuclear deal signed with world powers. In statements on ....

Palestinian teen wounded in clashes with Israeli forces in West Bank

Date: 2017-09-01 17:42:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:6971769

RAMALLAH, Sept 1 (MENA) – A Palestinian teenager was wounded in clashes with Israeli forces during a rally in a village in eastern Qalqilya of the West Bank to protest against the separation wall and settlement activities. Witnesses identified ....

39 students killed, injured in bus accident in southern Iran

Date: 2017-09-01 14:06:22 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:6971509

TEHRAN, Sept 1 (MENA) - A bus carrying high school students has overturned in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province, leaving at least nine people, including seven school girls, dead and some 30 others wounded, Press TV reported Friday. Nader ....

Merkel meets Rivlin to discuss Palestinian Israeli conflict

Date: 2017-09-01 13:13:57 GMT - Germany - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:6971499

BERLIN, Sept 1 (MENA) - German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a press conference on Friday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will receive Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in the capital Berlin to discuss the latest developments in ....

Muslims in Palestinian territories hit 1.5 million in 2016

Date: 2017-08-31 11:34:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:6970313

RAMALLAH, Aug 31 (MENA) - The Israeli central bureau of statistics said on Thursday Muslims in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, reached 1.5 million in 2016. The data revealed that there are 320,000 Muslims living ....

13 SDF elements killed in battles with Daesh in Raqqa

Date: 2017-08-31 09:50:04 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:6970187

LONDON, Aug 31 (MENA) - Thirteen elements of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed in battles with Daesh militants in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the caliphate it declared in 2014, according to the ....

Israeli army shuts down Palestinian radio station in Hebron

Date: 2017-08-31 09:28:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:6970150

RAMALLHA, Aug 31 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Thursday morning closed Manbar Al Huriya Radio and confiscated equipment after storming its headquarter in Hebron city in southern West Bank. The occupation forces detained the employees of the ....

Pravda: Russia to continue backing Iran despite Netanyahu exhortations

Date: 2017-08-30 13:48:02 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:6969272

MOSCOW, Aug 30 (MENA) - After their meeting in Sochi last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recounted how he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin Israel won't stand idly by as Iranian presence looms near Israel, Ynet reported ....

UN chief urges ending Israeli siege on GAZA

Date: 2017-08-30 12:15:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:6969201

GAZA CITY, Aug 30 (MENA) - United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for lifting the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip. Guterres, who is visiting the strip, called for hammering out a solution to the humanitarian ....

UN chief appeals for humanitarian aid on first visit to Gaza

Date: 2017-08-30 12:11:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:6969153

GAZA CITY, Aug 30 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for large-scale humanitarian aid to Gaza on Wednesday on his first visit to the isolated territory as UN chief and ordered the immediate release of $4 million from the world ....