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  • UNRWA commissioner-general never decided to curtail services offered to refugees

    UNRWA commissioner-general never decided to curtail services offered to refugees

    Date: 2018-06-20 15:52:58 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:7452135

    Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Pierre Krähenbühl have not decided until the moment to curtail services offered for more than 5 million Palestinian refugees, Media Adviser Adnan Abu Hasna said on ....

  • Yemeni army storms

    Yemeni army storms "Rubaysah" district in southern Hodeidah

    Date: 2018-06-20 09:19:31 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:7451317

    A Yemeni military commander said Wednesday that the Yemeni army stormed "Rubaysah" district in southern Hodeidah governorate on the western coast of Yemen, Al Arabiyah TV channel reported. The commander asserted that the Yemeni troops are seeking ....

  • Daesh kidnaps 5 persons in northwestern Salahuddine governorate

    Daesh kidnaps 5 persons in northwestern Salahuddine governorate

    Date: 2018-06-20 08:46:09 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:7451259

    Daesh terrorist group kidnapped five persons from a district in northwestern Salahuddine governorate, Al Sumariya News reported quoting an Iraqi local source as saying Wednesday. Daesh has recurrently kidnapped hundreds of civilians and held them ....

  • Erekat: US wants to turn Palestine cause into humanitarian issue rather than political

    Erekat: US wants to turn Palestine cause into humanitarian issue rather than political

    Date: 2018-06-19 08:14:12 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:7449680

    Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said on Tuesday that the United States is trying to turn the Palestinian cause from a political issue into a humanitarian one. Speaking to ....

  • Islamic Institutions say Israel is trying to control al-Aqsa

    Islamic Institutions say Israel is trying to control al-Aqsa

    Date: 2018-06-19 08:11:52 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:7449676

    Israeli occupation police is trying to slowly take control of al-Aqsa Mosque, Islamic Institutions in Jerusalem said on Tuesday in a statement. The Waqf Council, the Supreme Islamic Committee and the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem ....

  • Knesset passes law amendment says security cabinet can declare war

    Knesset passes law amendment says security cabinet can declare war

    Date: 2018-06-19 07:53:03 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:7449634

    The Knesset of Israel passed in the first reading the amendment to the proposed "Basic Law: The Government", which will cancel a recently passed clause which allowed the prime minister and defense minister to declare war. According to the ....

  • Saudi national football team land safely in Russia's Rostov

    Saudi national football team land safely in Russia's Rostov

    Date: 2018-06-19 07:37:55 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:7449607

    The Saudi Football Federation announced the arrival of members of the Saudi team this evening in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, in preparation for playing against the Uruguayan team. The federation said in a statement that "The members of the ....

  • Yemeni troops enter main complex at Hodaida airport

    Yemeni troops enter main complex at Hodaida airport

    Date: 2018-06-19 07:24:06 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:7449577

    Backed by the coalition supporting legitimacy in Yemen, Yemeni troops were able to enter the main complex at Hodaida airport, a military source said Tuesday. The troops stormed the airport after fierce clashes with Houthi militias early in the ....

  • Nothing to change after US planned new Mideast tour- Abu Rudeina

    Nothing to change after US planned new Mideast tour- Abu Rudeina

    Date: 2018-06-16 20:05:59 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:7447092

    Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said Saturday that the rhetoric about a planned US tour to Mideast to push forward what it was called as the “Deal of the Century” would never make a difference. The tour will be seen a waste ....

  • PLO official condemns extension of lawmaker’s detention

    PLO official condemns extension of lawmaker’s detention

    Date: 2018-06-16 19:24:52 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:7447057

    Member of PLO Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi condemned the extension of the administrative detention of lawmaker Khalida Jarrar for the third consecutive time. Ashrawi stated that the renewal of Jarrar’s detention was part of the Israeli ....

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