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French FM's visit to Iran postponed

Date: 2018-01-02 22:06:56 GMT - France - Middle East - SN:101 - ID:7171601

PARIS, Jan 2 (MENA) - French President Emmanuel Macron and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani decided to postpone French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian's visit to Tehran this week to a later date, Al Arabiya news channel quoted a statement ....

India officially cancels $500-million defense deal with Israel

Date: 2018-01-02 20:31:29 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:95 - ID:7171514

GAZA CITY, Jan 2 (MENA) - Two weeks before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to India, New Delhi has officially cancelled a $500-million defense deal with defense giant Rafael to purchase Spike anti-tank guided missiles, The JPost ....

Palestinian injured in Israeli shooting in Nablus

Date: 2018-01-02 19:22:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:91 - ID:7171435

RAMALLAH, Jan 2 (MENA) - A Palestinian citizen was injured on Tuesday after Israeli occupation forces opened fire against him at a village in Nablus city in the occupied West Bank. The man was injured during clashes with Israeli troops at Salim ....

Israeli decision on WB declaration of war against Palestinians -- Cabinet

Date: 2018-01-02 13:44:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:7170719

RAMALLAH, Jan 2 (MENA) - The Palestinian Cabinet on Tuesday said that a decision adopted by the right wing extremist Likud party imposing Israeli hegemony on the West Bank if applied by the Israeli government will be a declaration of war against the ....

Palestinian presidency: Knesset resolutions,Trump decision illegal

Date: 2018-01-02 12:50:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7170674

RAMALLAH, Jan 2 (MENA) - Official spokesman for the Palestinian presidency Nabil Abu Rudeina has described as null and void an Israeli Knesset's bill on Jerusalem and the decision by US president Donald Trump on recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's ....

Fox News says it has documents that Iranian regime scared of protests

Date: 2018-01-02 12:17:16 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:7170681

WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (MENA) - Fox News network said on Tuesday that it obtained leaked Iranian documents purporting that the Iranian regime is scared of the current bloody protests plaguing the country. The network indicated that these documents ....

Israel nabs 15 Palestinians including woman

Date: 2018-01-02 11:31:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:7170556

RAMALLAH, Jan 2 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained on Tuesday 15 Palestinians including a woman during raids on several cities of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement. Forces detained ....

Israeli army conducts military drills in southern Nablus

Date: 2018-01-02 11:03:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7170306

RAMALLAH, Jan 2 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces conducted on Tuesday morning military drills by live ammunition in Khirbet al-Tawil area in the town of Aqraba, southern Nablus city. Yousef Derieh, member of the anti-settlements committee in ....

11 Palestinians arrested in ِAl Quds, WB

Date: 2018-01-02 09:27:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7170222

RAMALLAH, Jan 2 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested 11 Palestinians in Al Quds and the West Bank at the break of dawn on Tuesday. Palestinian sources said that the Israeli forces arrested Nassar Azam al Rafaie and Mohammed Ziab al Sheikh ....

'Unified Jerusalem' bill passes in Knesset plenum

Date: 2018-01-02 09:26:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7170168

RAMALLAH, Jan 2 (MENA) - The Israeli Knesset plenum has approved the "Unified Jerusalem Law", which is an amendment to "Basic Law: Jerusalem", Ynet reported Tuesday. Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett pushed the bill, which was submitted by MK ....