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  • UN defends work of Palestinian refugee agency

    UN defends work of Palestinian refugee agency

    Date: 2018-01-16 08:43:52 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:7193402

    United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the work of the UN agency that helps Palestinian refugees "is critical" and if the United States or any other donor cuts its contributions "we will have to find other sources". Dujarric was ....

  • Saudi Arabia condemns interception of Qatari fighters to UAE civilian planes

    Saudi Arabia condemns interception of Qatari fighters to UAE civilian planes

    Date: 2018-01-16 08:42:10 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:7193398

    An official source at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed his country's condemnation of the interception by Qatari fighter planes of two civilian UAE planes bound for Bahrain's capital, Manama, according to a statement by the UAE ....

  • UAE says Bahraini radars detected flights intercepted by Qatari fighter jets

    UAE says Bahraini radars detected flights intercepted by Qatari fighter jets

    Date: 2018-01-16 07:43:21 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:7193290

    The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority, GCAA, said Monday Qatar's military aircraft intercepted two civilian UAE planes carrying a total of 277 passengers while preparing to land in Manama International Airport, the UAE's official news agency ....

  • Israel extends remand of Palestinian girl who hit soldiers

    Israel extends remand of Palestinian girl who hit soldiers

    Date: 2018-01-16 06:54:36 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:7193183

    An Israeli military court has extended the detention of a Palestinian teen filmed last month slapping soldiers. Ahed Tamimi was filmed in December outside her family home, pushing, kicking and slapping the soldiers, who fended off the blows ....

  • PLO central council suspends Oslo agrement with Israel

    PLO central council suspends Oslo agrement with Israel

    Date: 2018-01-16 06:39:47 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:7193212

    The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Central Council Monday has decided that the transitional period stipulated in the agreements signed in Oslo, Cairo and Washington, with its obligations no longer stand. The Central Council called, in ....

  • Bahrain condemns Qatar interception of UAE plane

    Bahrain condemns Qatar interception of UAE plane

    Date: 2018-01-15 13:07:57 GMT - Bahrain - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:7192133

    The Bahraini Foreign Ministry Monday strongly condemned Qatari jets' interception of a UAE civilian aircraft on a regular flight on a normal flight path to Manama. This action clearly violates agreements and relevant international laws, the ....

  • Qatari fighters intercept UAE civil aircraft on flight to Manama

    Qatari fighters intercept UAE civil aircraft on flight to Manama

    Date: 2018-01-15 11:47:17 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:7191880

    The UAE General Authority of Civil Aviation (GCAA) announced on Monday that Qatari fighter-planes have intercepted a UAE civilian aircraft that was on a regular flight to Manama, Bahrain. In a statement, the GCAA described the act as "a flagrant ....

  • Israeli forces capture 15 Palestinians from WB

    Israeli forces capture 15 Palestinians from WB

    Date: 2018-01-15 10:49:54 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:7191757

    Israeli occupation forces arrested at dawn Monday 15 Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank. In a released statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said the forces arrested eight from Bethlehem, three from Qalqilia, two from Jericho, ....

  • UAE: Abdullah Al-Thani was a guest and free in his movements

    UAE: Abdullah Al-Thani was a guest and free in his movements

    Date: 2018-01-15 08:24:50 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:7191329

    An official source from the United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al-Thani “is a guest of the country and is free in his movements throughout,” Al-Arabiya television reported. “An official ....

  • Jerusalem is Palestine's eternal capital- Abbas

    Jerusalem is Palestine's eternal capital- Abbas

    Date: 2018-01-15 08:23:36 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:7191345

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday Jerusalem is Palestine's eternal capital. Addressing the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) meeting in Ramallah, he called US President Donald Trump's deal of the century ....

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