Middle East
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US State Department condemns Erdoğan meeting with Hamas
Date: 2020-08-25 21:05:02 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:8561786
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (MENA) - The US State Department on Tuesday objected to a recent meeting in Istanbul between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and two leaders of the Palestinian movement of Hamas, The Hill reported. State Department ....
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US State Department condemns Erdoğan meeting with Hamas
Date: 2020-08-25 16:55:46 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:8561548
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (MENA) - The US State Department on Tuesday objected to a recent meeting in Istanbul between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and two leaders of Hamas, which took place on Saturday. US State Department spokesperson Morgan ....
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Abbas: Peace will not be achieved by bypassing Palestinians
Date: 2020-08-25 15:28:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:8561220
RAMALLAH, Aug 25 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told visiting British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab that peace will not be achieved in the region by bypassing the Palestinians or through normalization of relations with Arab countries, ....
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Syrian president tasks Arnous with forming new cabinet
Date: 2020-08-25 13:23:04 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:8561183
DAMASCUS, Aug 25 (MENA) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued on Tuesday decree no. 210/2020, tasking Hussein Arnous with forming the Cabinet of the Syrian Arab Republic, state news agency SANA reported. Hussein Arnous was born in Idleb in ....
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Israeli occupation forces arrest 15 Palestinians from West Bank
Date: 2020-08-25 08:42:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:8560689
RAMALLAH, Aug 25 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday arrested 15 Palestinians from the West Bank. According to a statement by the Palestinian Prisoner Club, four Palestinians were arrested from Tulkarm, two from Jenin, three from ....
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Israel warplanes, artillery strike Gaza, cause damage but no injuries
Date: 2020-08-25 08:29:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8560666
RAMALLAH, Aug 25 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes and artillery struck late last night two sites to the east of Rafah, south of the besieged Gaza Strip, WAFA reported Tuesday. An Israeli warplane fired at least one missile toward a site to the east of ....
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UK FM to visit Palestine, meet Abbas
Date: 2020-08-24 10:24:38 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:8559333
LONDON, Aug 24 (MENA) - British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week to press for renewed dialogue between their governments to pursue a negotiated ....
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Israeli occupation forces detain 10 Palestinians from the West Bank
Date: 2020-08-24 09:09:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:8559270
RAMALLAH, Aug 24 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces detained on Monday 10 Palestinians, half of them from the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm, during multiple raids across the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). It ....
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Pompeo arrives in Israel, first stop in tour of Middle East
Date: 2020-08-24 08:17:58 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:8559176
GAZA CITY, Aug 24 (MENA) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Israel on Monday on a five-day tour of the Middle East region, Al Hurra TV reported. Pompeo was met upon his arrival by Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy in ....
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Explosion at Iran’s Natanz facility due to sabotage operations
Date: 2020-08-23 21:51:49 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:8558904
TEHRAN, Aug 23 (MENA) - The explosion that occurred at the Natanz facility in Iran last month was a result of sabotage operations, Iranian al-Alam television reported citing a spokesperson of the country's atomic association. Iran’s Atomic Energy ....