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AI: Iran must investigate reports of protesters death in custody

Date: 2018-01-10 13:21:54 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:7183853

LONDON, Jan 10 (MENA) - The Iranian authorities must immediately investigate reports that at least five people have died in custody following a crackdown on anti-establishment protests, and take all necessary steps to protect detainees from torture ....

Israel detains 13 Palestinians from West Bank

Date: 2018-01-10 11:32:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:7183691

RAMALLAH, Jan 10 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 13 Palestinians, including a girl, from the West Bank at dawn Wednesday. In a statement on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that three Palestinian youth were detained from Ramallah, ....

Occupation forces close Nablus entrances after murder of settler

Date: 2018-01-10 11:11:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7183457

RAMALLAH, Jan 10 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday shut down Huwwara checkpoint southern Nablus preventing movement of cars on a road between Nablus and Qalqiliya cities. The closure came after an Israeli settler was shot dead on ....

US lost mediation rights, Abbas tells Norway's FM

Date: 2018-01-09 21:50:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:7183005

RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide during their meeting in Ramallah on Monday that the United States has lost its mediation rights after it recognized Jerusalem as ....

Israeli forces killed 8 unarmed Palestinian demonstrators on Gaza border - B'Tselem

Date: 2018-01-09 21:20:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:89 - ID:7182944

RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - The Israeli B'Tselem human rights organization said Tuesday the occupation soldiers shot and killed eight unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, none of whom posed mortal danger, who were participating in protests near the Gaza ....

Palestinian young man shot by Israeli forces near Bethlehem

Date: 2018-01-09 20:26:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:7182901

RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - A young Palestinian man was shot in the leg by Israeli forces during clashes that erupted in the town of Tuqu in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, during which forces fired tear gas, sound bombs, and ....

UNHCR urges Israel not to forcibly deport African refugees

Date: 2018-01-09 20:01:11 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:86 - ID:7182791

GENEVA, Jan 9 (MENA) - The UN refugee agency called on Israel not to forcibly send thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese refugees or asylum seekers to other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Voice of America reported Tuesday. UNHCR spokesman William ....

Palestine discusses new conference on Middle East with Russia, China — envoy

Date: 2018-01-09 16:18:12 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:76 - ID:7182611

MOSCOW, Jan 9 (MENA) - Palestine is negotiating to convene an international conference on the Middle East settlement with Russia, China and some European countries, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal told TASS on Tuesday. "We are ....

US decision freezing UNRWA funds is blackmail - Palestinian Cabinet

Date: 2018-01-09 12:56:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7182130

RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - The Palestinian Cabinet on Tuesday described a US decision freezing the funds of UNRWA as blackmail that is rejected by the Palestinian side. At its weekly session, the Cabinet said that the decision is illegal and adds ....

Erekat: Palestinian State meaningless unless Al Quds its capital

Date: 2018-01-09 12:33:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7181934

RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - A Palestinian State is meaningless without Al Quds as its capital, said Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat on Tuesday. In statements to Voice of Palestine Radio, he added that the US rhetoric on deals for ....