Cuba will send a total of 461 doctors and nurses to West Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic, local media reported Friday.
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The main purpose of the ongoing Israeli military operation in the West Bank is to undermine the new-born Palestinian unity government by weakening the Islamic Hamas movement, Palestinian analysts said on Sunday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet in Ramallah on Thursday to discuss the peace process and security concerns, a senior Palestinian source said on Tuesday.
World leaders should create new proposals for the upcoming nuclear talks in Geneva, semi-official ISNA news agency quoted Iran's foreign minister as saying on Sunday.
The Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday the allocation of 5,000 work permits to Palestinians from the West Bank, the Israeli Governmental Press office revealed in a statement.
The U.S. government on Wednesday designated Mohamed Lahbous, a member of the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA), as a specially designated global terrorist for his involvement in terrorist activities.
Islamic Hamas movement, which controls Gaza, renewed its claim that the government being formed in the West Bank was illegal.
Fragile calm in the West Bank could end if relevant parties do not get beyond managing conflict triggers to address root issues, an international report warned Wednesday.
U.S. officials on Tuesday ruled out a rail car loaded with ammonia nitrate as the cause of a deadly fertilizer plant blast that virtually leveled the small Texas town of West.
The seat, or center of an explosion that blew off a fertilizer plant and almost razed the U.S. town of West had been located, a U.S. Official said Sunday. Assistant Texas fire marshal Kelly Kistner told a press conference here that the locationing of the center of the explosion is important to the investigation of the the blast.
Authorities are gravely concerned about toxic gases released following Wednesday's huge fertilizer factory blast here, which is believed to have killed dozens and injured more than 170.