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Abul Gheit slams forced displacement of residents of Sheikh Jarrah district in E. Jerusalem

Date: 2021-05-06 10:03:35 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8944661

CAIRO, May 6 (MENA) - Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit condemned forced displacement of residents in Sheikh Jarrah district in E.Jerusalem. He called on the international community to intervene to prevent this measure which violates ....

Hungary offers seven intensive care units to Palestine

Date: 2021-05-06 09:07:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:8944590

RAMALLAH, May 6 (MENA) - The Hungarian government decided to donate seven intensive care units to the Palestinian government to help the country face coronavirus outbreak. Two units will be donated to Holy Family hospital in Bethlehem and the ....

Palestinian PM urges int'l community to condemn death of Palestinian teen

Date: 2021-05-05 22:09:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:109 - ID:8944285

RAMALLAH, May 5 (MENA) - Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh urged on Wednesday the international community to condemn Israeli killing of a 16-year-old teenager during clashes in the Palestinian village of Odala, south of Nablus. He called on ....

One killed, another wounded in Nablus clashes

Date: 2021-05-05 21:45:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:106 - ID:8944267

RAMALLAH, May 5 (MENA) - A 16-year-old Palestinian was gunned down and another was wounded in clashes that erupted between Israeli forces and Palestinians in a a West Bank village south of Nablus. Meanwhile, ten Palestinians were wounded and two ....

Israeli president tasks Yair Lapid with forming government

Date: 2021-05-05 20:19:06 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:99 - ID:8944164

GAZA CITY, May 5 (MENA) - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Wednesday announced that he decided to task Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid with forming Israel's next government following Benjamin Netanyahu's failure again to break more than two years of ....

15,872 COVID-19 infections, 349 deaths in Iran

Date: 2021-05-05 13:01:50 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:8943302

TEHRAN, May 5 (MENA) – As many as 15,872 new COVID-19 infections have been detected across the country in the past 24 hours, Mehr quoted the Iranian Health Ministry as saying. Sima Lari, the spokeswoman for the ministry, announced the new figure, ....

7 killed in Israeli air raid on Latakia

Date: 2021-05-05 12:27:16 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8943226

DAMASCUS, May 5 (MENA) - One person was killed and six others injured in an Israeli air strike on some parts of Latakia countryside on Wednesday, a Syrian military source said. The attack killed a civilian and injured six others including a child ....

72 new coronavirus cases in Israel

Date: 2021-05-05 07:26:56 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:8942755

GAZA CITY, May 5 (MENA) - Some 72 new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in Israel on Tuesday, with 0.2% of tests returning positive, The Jerusalem Post quoted a morning update by the Health Ministry on Wednesday. Of those infected, 90 ....

Borrell, Blinken discuss Iran deal, Russia on G7 sidelines in London

Date: 2021-05-04 17:39:56 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:8942347

LONDON, May 4 (MENA) - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and US State Secretary Antony Blinken discussed Russia and the Iran deal on the sidelines of the G7 ministerial meeting in London on Tuesday. "High Representative/Vice-President Borrell ....

Abbas: Jerusalem at core of Palestinian national project

Date: 2021-05-04 14:59:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:8942093

RAMALLAH, May 4 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Jerusalem and defending the Islamic and Christian holy sites constitute the main pillars of the Palestinian national project. He made the remarks while chairing a cabinet meeting ....