Middle East
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Kushner: Trump still undecided on Israel’s capital
Date: 2017-12-03 18:55:19 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7121860
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (MENA) – US President Donald Trump has not yet decided whether to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital or whether to proceed immediately in moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city. That’s according to his son-in-law ....
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Ehud Barak responds to Tel Aviv protest
Date: 2017-12-03 15:05:19 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7121423
GAZA CITY, Dec 3 (MENA) - Israel's former prime minister Ehud Barak called Saturday's protests "a decisive step in the battle for the future of the state". The former prime minister responded in his Twitter account to a demonstration on Rothschild ....
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Palestinian FM calls for holding extra-ordinary meetings of AL, OIC on al Quds
Date: 2017-12-03 12:26:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7121002
RAMALLAH, Dec 3 (MENA) - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al Malki has called for holding two extra-ordinary meetings of the Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation to probe threats to holy places in al Quds. Malki made the request ....
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Palestinian Foreign Ministry slams Israeli escalation in Al Aqsa Mosque
Date: 2017-12-03 11:41:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7120907
RAMALLAH, Dec 3 (MENA) - Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the ongoing Israeli escalation in Al Aqsa Mosque which was stormed by settlers and Jewish extremist groups. It slammed also storming of the yard of the ....
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Officials: Trump mulls calling Jerusalem Israel’s capital
Date: 2017-12-01 19:38:01 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:7119010
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump is considering recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a highly charged declaration that risks inflaming tensions across the Middle East, Washington Post quoted officials as saying ....
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Clashes erupted after Palestinian shot dead by Israeli settler in Nablus
Date: 2017-12-01 13:35:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7118375
RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - Clashes erupted between Israeli occupation forces and a number of Palestinian youth following Friday prayers held at Ras al Nakhla in the east of Qusra village, southeast of the West Bank city of Nablus. On Thursday, ....
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Palestinian presidency: Al Quds 'key for war and peace'
Date: 2017-12-01 11:33:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:7118235
RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - Spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Al Quds is the key for war and peace, stressing that any just solution to the Palestinian issue must ensure that Al Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) is the ....
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Israeli forces demolish home of Palestinian prisoner
Date: 2017-12-01 08:40:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7117950
RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces demolished earlier Friday home of Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Ziyad in Qabatiya city, northern West Bank. Dozens of residents, including a toddler and an elderly woman, suffered suffocation ....
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Quake rocks Iran's south-central province
Date: 2017-12-01 08:26:32 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7117978
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (MENA) - A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit on Friday morning Hojedk town at Ravar County located in south-central province of Kerman, according to the seismological center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University. The tremor ....
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Russian planes destroy over 910 terrorist facilities in Syria in past week
Date: 2017-12-01 08:24:58 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7117979
MOSCOW, Dec 1 (MENA) - Russia’s Aerospace Forces carried out over 420 sorties in Syria over the past seven days and destroyed over 910 facilities belonging to Daesh terrorist group, Russian news agency TASS quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as ....