Middle East
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| Area | 7208 |
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| Population | 371 million (2010) |
| Countries | Israel |
| Iran | |
| Saudi Arabia | |
| Turkey | |
| Egypt | |
| Syria | |
| Iraq | |
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| ID | 405649 |
About Middle East
The Middle East is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey, and Egypt. Saudi Arabia is geographically the largest Middle Eastern nation while Bahrain is the smallest. The corresponding adjective is Middle Eastern and the derived noun is Middle Easterner.
Israel-Gaza: UK launches surveillance flights to find Hamas hostages
...By Ruth ComerfordBBC NewsThe UK will carry out unarmed surveillance flights over the Middle East to search for Hamas hostage locations, the Ministry of Defence says...
British soldier killed off duty in Kenya
... He was commissioned from Sandhurst in August 2014 and was deployed in Europe, the Middle East, the Falklands and Africa...
Bowen: US sets clearer red lines for Israel as ceasefire ends
... A new Palestinian refugee crisis would be another dangerous and desperate moment for the Middle East...
Mia Schem: Wounded festival-goer in Hamas hostage video freed
... Speaking on his third visit to the Middle East since the war broke out last month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he wanted to see the truce extended...
Dr Martens shares plunge after profit warning
... The company said in its results that widespread caution among Dr Martens wholesale customers had resulted in a " weaker order book than in prior years" but added that trade in recent weeks in Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific had improved...
Henry Kissinger: Divisive diplomat who towered over world affairs
... He became a powerful critic of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton s foreign policy, arguing the presidents wanted too fast a leap towards peace in the Middle East...
Royal Navy sends second warship to Gulf
...By Jonathan BealeDefence correspondentThe UK is to send a second warship to the Gulf, in response to rising tensions in the Middle East...
Burlington, Vermont, shootings leave one troubling question: Why?
... The following day, prosecutors said, he started an argument about the Middle East and attacked his lodgers, Hanaan Shahin and her son Wadea Al-Fayoume...
Coronavirus: France, Italy, jobs saved, the immigrants on the quarantine ship
Alan Kurdi , operated by The German group of the sea-eye, was refused entry to the country, the transfer ordered by Italy and Malta
Italy 156 migrants on Board of a German rescue ship off the West coast of Sicily, to a different ship and in quarantine.
said The Migrants , mainly from Africa and the Middle East must undergo health checks, Italian officials.
The German rescue ship, Alan Kurdi was denied access to The Italian and Maltese ports on coronavirus fears.
Italy, the Ministry of transport said The Move was necessary as Sicily, the health services were already stretched.
The Migrants said after disembarking from the Alan Kurdi ship, operated by The German humanitarian group sea-to-eye would be to much pressure on The Island , local authorities, Italy's civil protection chief Angelo Borrelli.
As of Sunday, and More Than 156,363 infections confirmed.
The country has reported 431 deaths over a period of 24 hours - the lowest daily increase in More Than three weeks.
Mr Borrelli signed a document on Sunday signed the order, the Coast Guard , with the support of The Italian Red Cross , a ship "in The Next few hours" in the quarantine and test reports, the 156 migrants near The Italian territorial waters, local media.
it was Not a decision on the Final Destination of The Migrants , who were rescued by small boats in distress off the Libyan coast, officials said.
Italy has previously said that The Migrants rescued and brought to its shores to be the responsibility of the European Union (EU) and should be distributed among the member States.
the sea-Eye has also be found on EU heads of state to, a lasting solution to the migrant crisis in The Mediterranean .
Earlier this month, the EU's top Court - the European Court of justice ruled that the refusal of the refugees in the framework of an agreement, the face to ease burden of Italy and Greece.
In Greece, A Number of migrant investments have been recently put under quarantine after a local resident tested positive for coronavirus. Aid organizations have warned that an outbreak of Covid-19 housed in crowded camps - where the Hygiene is bad - it could spread The Virus quickly.
to date, no confirmed cases of The Virus in camps on five Greek Islands, where about half of all EU asylum seekers Live .
italy, europe migrant crisis, germany, coronavirus pandemic
Source of news: bbc.com
