DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Rulers in the United Arab Emirates announced Saturday that they unanimously appointed Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the president of this hereditarily ruled nation on the Arabian Peninsula. The state-run WAM news agency said the rulers of the country’s
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40 days of mourning announced. Work at ministries, departments, and federal and local institutions will be suspended today. Abu Dhabi (UAE)- Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, died on Friday at the age of 73, according to state media, after battling illness for several years. “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs […]
Thousands of Palestinians are likely to attend the funeral in Jerusalem. Jerusalem(Israel)- Thousands of Palestinians will attend the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at a Catholic church in Jerusalem’s Old City before burial, On Friday afternoon. Who was said shot dead by Israeli forces earlier this week while covering a military operation
The Palestinian Authority has turned down an Israeli request to conduct a joint probe into the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Jerusalem (Israel) – The Palestinian authority rejected Israeli proposal to join them with the investigation on the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Hussein Al Sheikh, a top advisor […]
London (Uk)- Sadhguru, Founder of the Isha Foundation, who launched the global Movement to Save Soil from extinction in March this year, will address leaders from 195 nations at the 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as the Key Note speaker. COP15 will be held […]
CAIRO — An Islamic State affiliate in Egypt on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack that targeted a water pumping station east of the Suez Canal, killing at least 11 soldiers. At least five other soldiers were wounded in Saturday’s attack, according to the Egyptian military. It was one of the deadliest attacks on Egyptian […]
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man died after he was shot by Israeli troops trying to cross the security fence near a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, hours after Israeli authorities apprehended two Palestinians who killed three people in an attack last week. The Israeli military said that soldiers “spotted a suspect who attempted […]
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops on Saturday demolished the home of a Palestinian man who killed a Jewish seminary student in a shooting ambush in the occupied West Bank five months ago, the military said. The demolition took place around dawn in the village of Silat al-Khartiyeh, with troops swinging sledgehammers to break walls and setting […]
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a long-standing expulsion order against eight Palestinian hamlets in the occupied West Bank, potentially leaving at least 1,000 people homeless, an Israeli rights group representing the villagers said Thursday. The verdict, issued late Wednesday as Israel largely shut down for its Independence Day, marks the end of a […]
JERUSALEM — Israeli medics say at least three people were killed in a stabbing attack near Tel Aviv on Thursday night. Police said they suspect it was a militant attack and that the assailant fled in a vehicle. Security forces set up roadblocks in the area around where the killings occurred, in the town of […]