West Asia
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Yemen grants UN access to abandoned fuel tanker near Hudaydah
Nov 26, 2020 19:34Yemen has given the green light for a UN mission to inspect and repair a long-abandoned fuel tanker stranded near the port city of Hudaydah.
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Palestinian hunger striker released from Israeli jail
Nov 26, 2020 19:15The Zionist regime has released Palestinian inmate Maher al-Akhras, who was on hunger strike for more than 100 days in protest at his illegal detention.
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Zionist entity frees Palestinian who went on 103-day hunger strike
Nov 26, 2020 12:12The Zionist regime has released Palestinian inmate Maher al-Akhras, who was on hunger strike for more than 100 days in protest at his illegal detention, as people hailed another victory against the occupying entity.
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Russia denounces Pompeo’s visit to occupied Golan as ‘provocation’
Nov 26, 2020 09:16Russia has censured as “a provocation” a contentious visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the Israeli-occupied side of Syria’s Golan Heights, saying the Arab country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity should be respected.
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UN says Israeli siege cost Gaza Strip $16.7 billion
Nov 26, 2020 08:38The United Nations (UN) says the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip has cost the densely-populated Palestinian enclave an estimated $16.7 billion in economic losses and sent poverty and unemployment skyrocketing.
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Pakistan: No plans to recognize Israel until independent Palestinian state formed
Nov 26, 2020 08:32Pakistani has roundly dismissed media speculation that the South Asian country would recognize Israel, following reports of a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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US prevents sending of Gen. Soleimani’s assassination probe results to Iraq parliament: MP
Nov 25, 2020 20:03An Iraqi lawmaker said the US embassy in Baghdad is blocking the arrival to the parliament of the results of investigations into the January terrorist attack on Iran’s top commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).
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Yemen stresses right to self-defense as Saudi Arabia resorts to UN over Aramco raid
Nov 25, 2020 09:07Yemen says its armed forces reserve the legitimate right to respond to any act of aggression by the Saudi-led military coalition, after Riyadh complained to the UN Security Council over a Yemeni missile attack on an Aramco petroleum products distribution plant in the kingdom’s port city of Jeddah.
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Syrian media report fresh Israeli aggression near Damascus, Syria’s south
Nov 25, 2020 08:24Syrian media say Israel has launched fresh airstrikes on several positions in southern Syria and outside the capital, Damascus, the second such attack in a week.
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Turkish court adds new Saudi suspects in Khashoggi case
Nov 25, 2020 08:16A court in Turkey has named new suspects in the case against Saudi officials charged with the state-sponsored murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018, saying the measure is needed to help reveal the full truth behind the killing.