Palestinian officials welcome report, while Israel condemns it as ‘shameful blacklist’ The UN has published a list of companies with business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the US-based TripAdvisor and Airbnb and the British truck and digger maker JCB. Most of the 112 companies ... Read More »
The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, urged Israel on Tuesday not to annex the Jordan Valley, a large swathe of the occupied West Bank, warning of Palestinian protests if it went ahead. Israel captured the West Bank in a 1967 war. The Palestinian Authority wants to make the area part ... Read More »
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, appearing before the United Nations Security Council, angrily rejected US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday as a gift to Israel and unacceptable to Palestinians. Waving a copy of a map that the US plan envisions for a two-state solution for Israel and ... Read More »
Support for Nato drops dramatically in Germany and France as east European members cling to it more over Russia fears On the eve of a major Nato defence ministers’ summit in Brussels, malaise and uncertainty hung over the 29-member alliance. Donald Trump is demanding members of Nato take up more tasks ... Read More »
Lebanon’s new government won parliament’s vote of confidence on Tuesday, as 63 MPs voted in favor, 20 voted against and one MP abstained. The MPs of Hizbullah, the Free Patriotic Movement, the AMAL Movement and their allies granted confidence to Hassan Diab’s government as those of al-Mustaqbal Movement, the Progressive ... Read More »
Israeli occupation forces escalated their aggression against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, wounding several citizens, arresting 16 civilians including boys, closing the entrances of three villages with iron gates, and bombing sites in Gaza. In Bethlehem, two Palestinians were wounded after the Israeli occupation forces ... Read More »
The Syrian army announced in a statement published by SANA that the armed forces advancing from the eastern countryside of Idlib met other advancing troops in the southern direction of Aleppo, and regained control of 600 square kilometres. The General Command of the Army announced in a statement that “the ... Read More »
Russian oil companies are seeking to invest in the Iraqi gas sector, the First Deputy Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee at the Russian Federation Council announced yesterday. “Today, our leading oil and gas companies such as Lukoil, Bashneft, Gazprom Neft are actively working in Iraq,” Yury Fedorov said during ... Read More »
The number of US service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) stemming from Iran’s missile attack on a base in Iraq last month has shot up to more than 100, the Pentagon said Monday. The department said 109 military members had been treated for mild TBI, a significant increase ... Read More »
Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim threw, on Saturday, a copy of the US’ so-called “deal of the century” in the bin, stressing that it “was born dead” and “should be thrown in the dustbin of history”. This came during Al-Ghanim’s speech before the emergency conference of the Arab Parliamentary Union, ... Read More »
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