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Israeli PM proposes new law enabling him to declare war without governmental approval
Date: 2017-08-13 22:38:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:6943586
RAMALLAH, Aug 13 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to promote an amendment to the 2001 'Basic Law: The Government', Jerusalem Online reported. The amendment would allow Netanyahu to declare war- or initiate a military ....
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Palestinian national powers call for marches against Trump's pro-Israel bias
Date: 2017-08-13 11:41:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:6942462
RAMALLAH, Aug 13 (MENA) - Palestinian national and Islamic powers in Ramallah and Al Bireh governorate renewed their rejection of the US stance which they described as biased towards the Israeli occupation, pointing to the pressures being exerted on ....
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Israeli occupants arrest relatives of Palestinian attacker in Helmish operation
Date: 2017-08-13 10:17:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:6942388
RAMALLAH, Aug 13 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces at dawn Sunday stormed into Couper village in northern Ramallah city at central occupied West Bank. During the crackdown, Israeli forces arrested two relatives of the Palestinian attacker, Omar ....
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Suicide bomber kills 15 in southwestern Pakistan
Date: 2017-08-12 20:50:52 GMT - Pakistan - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:6942040
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12 (MENA) – A suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted a military truck Saturday with a bomb killing eight soldiers and seven civilians in the southwestern city of Quetta, ABC News quoted an official and the military as ....
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Floods in Iran kill at least 12
Date: 2017-08-12 16:30:36 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:6941760
TEHRAN, Aug 12, (MENA) - The Friday flash floods triggered by heavy rains killed 12 people in the country's northeast, ABC News reported on Saturday. The TV website irinn.ir quoted the spokesman for the country's disaster agency, Ali Bakhtiari, ....
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Israeli soldier injured in stabbing attack
Date: 2017-08-12 10:13:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:6941107
RAMALLAH, Aug 12 (MENA) - An Israeli soldier was injured as a Palestinian girl stabbed him near Bab Al Amoud - one of Al Aqsa Mosque gates - in occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses told MENA that the soldier was slightly injured and Israeli ....
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7 White Helmets volunteers killed in Idlib
Date: 2017-08-12 09:58:02 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:6941060
DAMASCUS, Aug 12 (MENA) - At least seven members of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) volunteers were killed on Saturday when unknown gunmen opened fire on them in Idlib countryside. The gunmen stormed the HQ of the White Helmets in Sermin ....
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Syrian army captures Sokhna city in Homs
Date: 2017-08-12 09:44:52 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:6941030
DAMASCUS, Aug 12 (MENA) - The Syrian army managed to take full control of al Sokhna city, last stronghold of Daesh terrorist group in Homs, said military sources on Saturday. The governmental forces inflicted heavy damage on Daesh terrorists and ....
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Fierce clashes between Daesh, SDF in Raqqah: SOHR
Date: 2017-08-12 08:36:45 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:6940933
LONDON, Aug 12 (MENA) - Fierce clashes erupted between Daesh terrorists and the Washington-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Raqqah city, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Saturday. The fiercest clashes took ....
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PLO asks Quartet on Middle East to confirm adoption of two-state solution
Date: 2017-08-11 14:13:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:6940076
RAMALLAH, Aug 11 (MENA) - Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee Saeb Erekat asked Friday the Quartet on the Middle East to confirm its adoption of the two-state solution based on the pre-1967 borders. This ....
