The US decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem prompted angry protests [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters] Announcement labelled ‘provocation to Arabs’ as May 15 marks Nakba Day and the mass displacement of Palestinians. The US State Department has said the new US embassy in Jerusalem will open in May 2018, to coincide with […]
Continue reading …The UN Security Council delayed a vote on demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to Saturday at noon (1700 GMT) to allow more time for negotiations, diplomats said. Syria’s UN envoy Staffan De Mistura in Vienna. (File Photo: Reuters) The council has been in talks on a draft resolution on the truce since February 9 […]
Continue reading …Egypt’s National Elections Authority (NEA) approved on Friday President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Moussa Mostafa Moussa, the head of the Ghad Party, as the final candidates in the upcoming presidential elections, which are set for 26-28 March 2018. National Elections Authority sets two final Presidential candidates (Photo: Ahram ) The Authority has also approved the electoral […]
Continue reading …A protester holds a placard reading “Papers for all or no papers at all” in Paris on Wednesday, during a demonstration against the French government’s new immigration bill. [Photo/Agencies] The government of French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled tough proposed immigration rules on Wednesday that human rights organizations say will victimize asylum-seekers. The bill, which was […]
Continue reading …Trump’s Middle East peace plan is almost ready but won’t be “loved” by either side, Nikki Haley has predicted. However, the Trump administration’s staunchly pro-Israel stance seems at odds with the plan’s alleged impartiality. Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. © Debbie Hill / Reuters A vision for […]
Continue reading …President Donald Trump and America’s powerful gun lobby on Thursday cast citizens with weapons as a solution to shootings, as it emerged an armed deputy was on campus during a deadly Florida rampage but failed to act. © Mandel Ngan / AFP | US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with state and local […]
Continue reading …President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed Friday recent comments by a spokesperson of the U.S. Department of Defense claiming there were civilian casualties in Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch to clear the PKK-affiliated People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region. Addressing the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) provincial chairs in Ankara, Erdoğan said […]
Continue reading …DP World has commenced arbitration proceedings before the London Court of International Arbitration.- Alamy Image The illegal seizure is the culmination the government’s campaign to force DP World to renegotiate the terms of the concession. Dubai Ports World (“DP World”) has issued the following statement on its Doraleh Container Terminal S.A. in Djibouti: “The Government […]
Continue reading …Nikolas Cruz has been charged with the shooting in Parkland that killed 17 people. Broward County Sheriff’s Office Nikolas Cruz’s dangerous and disturbing behavior was flagged repeatedly to authorities, both local and federal, over a span of two years starting in February 2016. But no one stopped him before he killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman […]
Continue reading …In an unprecedented joint Argentine-Russian police operation straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, six people have been arrested for trying to smuggle over $60mn worth of cocaine out of Argentina through diplomatic mail. The cocaine that has been found in the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, appears in this undated handout photo provided on […]
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