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Former lawmaker begins jail sentence for boosting Palestinian prisoners

Date: 2017-07-02 10:47:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:6876937

RAMALLAH, July 2 (MENA) - Arab Knesset member Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List’s Balad faction began his two-year jail sentence at Gilboa Prison for boosting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. In April, the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court ....

Taliban kill 13 local militiamen in ambush in Afghanistan

Date: 2017-07-02 08:32:47 GMT - Afghanistan - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:6876636

KABUL, July 2 (MENA) – Afghan officials say the Taliban have attacked a local militia, killing 13 pro-government fighters, ABC News reported on Sunday. Munir Ahmad Farhad, spokesman for the governor of the northern Balkh province, says the local ....

Suicide bombing hits Damascus; casualties feared - State TV

Date: 2017-07-02 07:20:51 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:6876608

DAMASCUS, July 2 (MENA) - A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing and injuring a number of people, Russia Today reported on Sunday. The bomber was in one of three cars, each with bombs, that had been pursued ....

Giant US aircraft carrier fighting Daesh docks at Haifa port

Date: 2017-07-01 11:45:53 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:6875548

Gaza City, July 1 (MENA) - The United States Navy USS George H.W. Bush supercarrier docked outside Israel's northern Haifa port on Saturday morning, the Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. One of a ten-ship fleet, currently the largest warships ....

Israel to build pipeline to absorb sewage from Gaza

Date: 2017-07-01 09:18:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:6875310

RAMALLAH, July 1 (MENA) - Israel will build a pipeline to absorb sewage from neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip after the sewage treatment facility there was shut down due to the electricity crisis, Ynet reported on Saturday. The Sderot ....

Syrian soldiers killed in Ein Tarma clashes: Opposition

Date: 2017-07-01 09:07:54 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:6875237

DAMASCUS, July 1 (MENA) - A number of Syrian soldiers have been killed and others injured during clashes in Ein Tarma, Damascus eastern countryside, Syrian opposition factions announced on Saturday. The opposition said that they managed to ....

Iraqi police take full control of al Shifaa district in Mosul

Date: 2017-07-01 07:55:38 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:6875149

BAGHDAD, July 1 (MENA) - Iraq's rapid reaction forces took full control of al Shifaa district northern Mosul as part of the final operations to uproot Daesh terrorists, the Iraqi federal police announced on Saturday. The forces also recaptured ....

87 soldiers hospitalized at barracks after suffering from vomiting in Turkey

Date: 2017-06-30 19:51:02 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:6874957

ANKARA, June 30 (MENA) – A total of 87 soldiers at a military barracks in the southwestern resort district of Marmaris were hospitalized in the Aegean province of Mugla after suffering from nausea and vomiting, Sky News reported Friday. Some 84 ....

Israel cancels family visits for Hamas prisoners

Date: 2017-06-29 17:42:20 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:6873735

GAZA, June 29 (MENA) - Israel decided Thursday to no longer allow family visits for some 1,200 Hamas prisoners in an effort to put pressure on the Islamist group and advance talks on the return of Israeli citizen Abera Mengistu and the bodies of two ....

Israeli surveillance drone crashes in Bethlehem

Date: 2017-06-29 17:40:20 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:6873705

GAZA CITY, June 29 (MENA) - An Israeli unmanned Skylark surveillance drone crashed in the Bethlehem area of the West Bank in Israel on Thursday evening, The Jerusalem Post reported. The Israeli army tracked down and recovered the wreckage, and is ....