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Israel enters third nationwide lockdown
After a sharp rebound in detected infections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government announced three days ago that it would re-impose the strict...
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Israeli strikes on Syria kill six: monitor
The dead were all foreign paramilitaries fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad's forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Right said.
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Israel announces third nationwide virus lockdown
Israelis will be barred from travelling more than one kilometre (1,000 yards or so) from their homes and businesses will be closed except for deliveries.
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Israel heads to polls again amid pandemic and PM's legal woes
The Knesset legislature was dissolved when the coalition headed by Netanyahu's right-wing Likud and Gantz's centrist Blue and White party missed a midnight deadline to pass a 2020 budget.
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Morocco savours Western Sahara breakthrough in Israel deal
For the Polisario Front, which has campaigned for independence for the former Spanish colony since the 1970s, Trump's announcement marked a major setback and drew a promise to fight on until Moroccan forces withdraw.
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Trump announces Morocco latest Arab state to recognise Israel
Morocco joins the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan in the White House's ‘Abraham Accords’ initiative.
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Israel gets first delivery of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
The shipment was the first of eight million doses ordered from US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer BioNTech.
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Israel's Netanyahu welcomes end of travel ban on ex-spy Pollard
Pollard served 30 years for giving away classified US documents, and had been confined by parole terms to the United States since his release in 2015.
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Bahrain urges Israel-Palestinian peace in historic Jerusalem meet
Bahrain's Abdellatif al-Zayani said the historic US-brokered deals the Gulf kingdom and the United Arab Emirates had struck to normalise ties with Israel would help foster a dawn of "peace for the entire Middle East".
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Malawi to open Israel embassy in Jerusalem
Malawi has had diplomatic ties with the Jewish state since 1964 but without opening an embassy.
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Sudanese split over normalising relations with Israel
The move - announced by the White House Friday - came shortly after US President Donald Trump declared that Washington was formally moving to delist Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, a designation that strangled Khartoum's economy for decades.
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US says Sudan to normalise ties with Israel, in new breakthrough for Trump
Trump announced the agreement by Sudan's year-old civilian-backed government moments after he formally moved to end the nation's designation of a state sponsor of terrorism, which was a major goal for Khartoum.
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Hezbollah says border talks not 'normalisation' with Israel
Lebanon and Israel, which are still technically at war, last week said they had agreed to begin UN-brokered negotiations over the shared frontier, in what Washington hailed a "historic" agreement.
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US seeks breakthrough on Sudan before election
Sudan is one of four nations listed as a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States, severely impeding investment as businesses worry of legal risks in dealing with the country.
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Israel establishes full ties with Bahrain, UAE at White House
Hundreds of guests attended the event, which US President Donald Trump is hoping will boost his reelection chances in November, but there were no handshakes to cement the historic agreements in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Israel, Gulf states accord charts new era for Middle East
Many of the oil-rich Gulf states have been quietly cultivating ties with Israel for years, but the normalisation deal allows those relationships to burst into the open, offering rich opportunities as they try to repair economies savaged by the coronavirus crisis.
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Iran says Bahrain partner to 'crimes' of Israel after deal
The Friday announcement by US President Donald Trump made Bahrain the second Arab country in a month, after the United Arab Emirates, to normalise ties with Israel under US sponsorship.
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Iran's Khamanei says UAE 'betrayed' Muslim world with Israel deal
In the agreement, only the third such deal it has struck with an Arab country, Israel pledged to suspend annexation of Palestinian lands.
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From Jerusalem to SA with love! Palestinians do #JerusalemaDanceChallenge
The #JerusalemaDanceChallenge got the world abuzz, with the official video garnering over 90 million YouTube views.
