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Qatari top official affirms importance of rallying int'l efforts to support Syria
Date: 2024-12-17 10:16:00 GMT - Qatar - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10994702
DOHA, Dec 17 (MENA) - Qatar's Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al Khulaifi held a phone call on Tuesday with United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, according to Qatar News Agency ....
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UN official: Developments in Syrian allow repatriations of refugees
Date: 2024-12-17 09:55:17 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:10994520
GENEVA, Dec 17 (MENA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday said that the situation in Syria is likely to allow the return of Syrian refugees to homeland. "The fast moving situation in Syria allows more access by ....
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UN condemns Israeli airstrike on UNRWA-run school in Gaza’s Khan Yunis
Date: 2024-12-17 07:31:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:10994389
NEW YORK, Dec 17 (MENA) - The United Nations condemned the Israeli airstrike on a school in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, which resulted in the killing of dozens of civilians, WAFA reported. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric confirmed during the ....
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10 civilians killed in Israeli airstrike on apartment in central Gaza Strip
Date: 2024-12-17 07:30:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:10994388
GAZA CITY, Dec 17 (MENA) - Ten civilians from one family, including children and women, were killed and others were injured after Israeli occupation warplanes targeted, at dawn an apartment belonging to the Al-Turk family near the Jabalia parking ....
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EU, Palestine Monetary Authority sign EUR 28.3 mln agreement
Date: 2024-12-16 15:42:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:10993852
RAMALLAH, Dec 16 (MENA) - The EU and the European Investment Bank (EIB), together with the Palestine Monetary Authority, signed a EUR 28.3 million agreement under the Palestine Financial Sustainability Initiative. This funding aims to enhance ....
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9 Palestinians killed, others injured in Israeli raids
Date: 2024-12-16 11:07:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:10993220
GAZA CITY, Dec 16 (MENA) - Nine Palestinians were killed and others injured on Monday in Israeli airstrikes on the northern and central Gaza, WAFA reported. Five Palestinians were killed and others injured after Israeli warplanes hit a house in ....
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Gaza war 'most fatal conflict for civilians' in decade --paper
Date: 2024-12-16 09:22:16 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:10993070
WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (MENA) - Airwars, a UK-based nonprofit that investigates civilian deaths in conflict zones, said the toll of destruction on civilians in Gaza is the largest it has documented in a decade. Airwars said in a new report that the ....
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London to provide 50mn pounds in aid for Syrians
Date: 2024-12-16 08:34:50 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:10993002
LONDON, Dec 16 (MENA) - The British government said it will release 50 million pounds ($63 million) of humanitarian aid for "the most vulnerable" Syrians in Syria and in neighboring Lebanon and Jordan, Barron's reported. "We’re committed to ....
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Blinken discusses with UK counterpart situation in Syria, Gaza
Date: 2024-12-16 08:16:55 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10993046
WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed the US support for a responsible Syrian government chosen by the Syrian people. During a phone call between the US secretary of state and his British counterpart David ....
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Israel strikes military site in Syria’s Tartus region
Date: 2024-12-16 05:54:00 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:3 - ID:10992930
RAMALLAH, Dec 16 (MENA) - A Syria war monitor said early Monday that Israeli strikes had targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartus region, calling them “the heaviest strikes” in the area in more than a decade, AlArabiya reported. “Israeli ....