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12 people wounded in Turkish police bus bomb attack
Date: 2017-10-17 20:00:53 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:7044778
ANKARA, Oct 17 (MENA) - At least 12 people were injured after a bomb attack targeting a Turkish police bus in the southern Turkish city of Mersin. The report was carried by Sky News on Tuesday without giving more details. H M E/M A F ....
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Palestinian presidency condemns Israel’s approval to build new settlement units
Date: 2017-10-17 17:56:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:80 - ID:7044787
RAMALLAH, Oct 17 (MENA) - The Palestinian presidency condemned on Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of the construction of 300 housing units in the settlement of Beit El, north of Ramallah, as well as approving the ....
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Israel advances 1,292 settler homes, hundreds more planned
Date: 2017-10-17 17:27:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:78 - ID:7044775
EAST JERUSALEM, Oct 17 (MENA) - In its first of two meetings this week, the Israel Defense Ministry's body responsible for authorizing settlement construction in the West Bank advanced plans for 1,292 housing units across the West Bank Tuesday, The ....
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Netanyahu vows Israel will stop Iran’s aim for military base in Syria
Date: 2017-10-17 15:28:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:7044556
RAMALLAH, Oct 17 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu at negotiations on Tuesday that his country will prevent the emergence of a permanent Iranian military presence in Syria, ....
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Palestinian cabinet decries Sinai terror attack
Date: 2017-10-17 14:09:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7044257
RAMALLAH, Oct 17 (MENA) - Palestine's cabinet on Tuesday denounced the terrorist attack that targeted security forces in North Sinai, leaving a number of soldiers dead. The cabinet offered sincere condolences to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El ....
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Palestinian PM: legal, historic status of Waqfs in Al Quds must be protected
Date: 2017-10-17 12:02:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:7043803
RAMALLAH, Oct 17 (MENA) - Palestinian Prime Minister Ramy Al Hamdallah on Tuesday said that efforts are exerted to maintain Islamic and Christian Waqfs (religious endowments) in Al Quds city and other Palestinian territories against selling or ....
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Israeli forces arrest Palestinian young man in Jalazone camp
Date: 2017-10-17 09:50:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7043561
RAMALLAH, Oct 17 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested in the wee hours of Tuesday a Palestinian young man, claiming that he has published a post on his Facebook account they considered as an indication for preparing an operation against the ....
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Fatah Central Committee: Abbas signed decision to open recruitment in GS
Date: 2017-10-17 09:05:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7043489
RAMALLAH, Oct 17 (MENA) - Fatah Central Committee member Hussein al Sheikh said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed Tuesday a decision to start recruitment in the Gaza Strip for the security services in an effort to rebuild it, stressing that ....
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Turkey closes its air space with Iraq's Kurdistan
Date: 2017-10-16 21:40:31 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:7043166
ANKARA, Oct 16 (MENA) - Turkey said Monday it supports an operation conducted by the Iraq government forces which moved into the disputed city of Kirkuk and seized oil fields and other infrastructure following last month's Kurdish independence vote, ....
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'We will strike anyone who tries to harm us' - Netanyahu
Date: 2017-10-16 21:11:13 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:7043140
GAZA CITY, Oct 16 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned Syria that Israel would continue to carry out airstrikes "as needed" after the Israeli Air Force destroyed a Syrian anti-aircraft battery, Yedioth Ahronoth ....
