Headlines- Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, will visit Tehran on Thursday and meet with several Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions.
- According to a notice on a Treasury Department website, the US has imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group and designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- A huge flash flood in Nepal ravaged villages, killing at least 160 people and leaving hundreds more missing for.
- At least one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when a person crashed a car into a crowd in the northwest French city of Caen.
- Wildfires that sweft through several Algerian provinces claimed the lives of twelve people..
Tag: Palestine Authority
Israel’s Northern Ghost Towns Are Being...
Towns along the Israel-Lebanon border have emptied as rocket fire from the Hezbollah militant in Lebanon has increased, and there are no plans for the residents to return.From Metula, Israel, Pilar Cebrián sheds light on the thousands of displaced people and the ghost towns they left behind, in this story narrated by Veronica Villafañe. VOA …
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‘Lion’s Den’ Militants Viewed as Heroes...
Israel has vowed to crack down on the Lion’s Den, an armed Palestinian resistance group in West Bank that has attacked Israeli soldiers and civilians numerous times over the past six months.
Press Conference by Arab Group Chair,...
Press briefings by Sofiane Mimouni, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations and Chair of the Arab Group for the month of May 2021; Abdou Abarry, Permanent Representative of Niger to the United Nations and Chair of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for the month of May 2021; and Riyad Mansour, Permanent Representative of Palestine to the United Nations
Israel Laser Defense
Amid an escalation of tensions between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas government, Palestinians have launched hundreds of incendiary devices carried by balloons over the border into Israel. Now, Israel has developed a laser defense system – the first of its kind in the world – to shoot them down
UN Security Council Considers Situation in...
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, arrives to address the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Behind him is Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations
West Bank Palestinians Say Peace Further...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s recently announced Middle East peace plan calls for Israel to keep control over all of Jerusalem, with its Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites. The plan envisions the capital of the Palestinian state in outlying suburban neighborhoods of Jerusalem such as Abu Dis, which is technically in the West Bank