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Kuwaiti Emir receives call from Pakistani PM

Date: 2017-07-03 13:59:46 GMT - Kuwait - Middle East - SN:62 - ID:6878940

KUWAIT CITY, July 3 (MENA) - Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah received a phone call from Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Monday. They discussed bilateral relations and the latest developments in the region. ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry urges quick action to stop Israeli settlement expansion plot

Date: 2017-07-03 12:58:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:6878738

RAMALLAH, July 3 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called on the UN Security Council to live up to its legal and moral responsibilities to force Israel to stop its settlement expansion on Palestinian lands, particularly al Quds. The ....

Putin talks Syrian crisis with Russian national security council o

Date: 2017-07-03 12:57:19 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:6878993

MOSCOW, July 3 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Monday with the Russian National Security Council to discuss the economic and social situation in Russia and the Syrian crisis. Spokesman for the Kremlin said the meeting tackled ....

PNC urges Inter-Parliamentary Union to take punitive measures against Knesset over Jarrar's re-arrest

Date: 2017-07-03 11:27:25 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:42 - ID:6878711

AMMAN, July 3 (MENA) - The Palestinian National Council (PNC) vehemently condemned Israel's re-arrest of Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar, a year after her release from jail. In a press release on Monday from Amman, the council urged the ....

Israel confiscates parts of historic Islamic cemetery in East Jerusalem

Date: 2017-07-03 10:41:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:6878635

RAMALLAH, July 3 (MENA) - Israel confiscated parts of the historic Islamic cemetery adjacent to the eastern wall of Al Aqsa Mosque. Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces brought heavy drilling equipment in the site. Israeli forces prevented ....

Iranian president criticizes Turkey's Dam projects

Date: 2017-07-03 10:25:55 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:6878578

TEHRAN, July 3 (MENA) - Iranian President Hassan Rohani criticized major dam projects by Turkey on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, IRNA news agency reported Monday. Rohani is demanding Turkey to halt construction of both dams, saying that they ....

Israel detains 17 Palestinians from West Bank

Date: 2017-07-03 09:29:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:6878387

RAMALLAH, July 3 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 17 Palestinians on Monday from different areas in the West Bank. Israeli forces stormed into Qalqilya and detained five people, according to press statements. Three people were detained from ....

Palestinian injured in Israeli incursion in West Bank

Date: 2017-07-02 18:36:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:6877830

RAMALLAH, July 2 (MENA) - A Palestinian man was injured by Israeli troops who raided a village in the occupied West Bank, local sources said on Sunday. The forces vandalized three acres of harvests owned by a villager during their incursion in ....

Israeli forces arrest MP Khaleda Jarrar

Date: 2017-07-02 11:51:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:6876926

RAMALLAH, July 2 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested Sunday two prominent leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in a major raid on several areas in the city of Ramallah, central West Bank. Israeli forces ....

Syrian State TV: 8 killed, 12 wounded in Damascus suicide bombing

Date: 2017-07-02 11:47:07 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:6876877

DAMASCUS, July 2 (MENA) - Syrian state TV reported on Sunday at least eight people have been killed and 12 wounded in a series of car bomb explosions in Damascus. Security forces have chased three car bombs and destroyed two of them at the entrance ....