The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Thursday urged Israeli to immediately halt all evictions and demolitions in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, after an entire family was forced out of their long-term home the (...)
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki criticized US President Joe Biden on Thursday for moving too slowly to reverse Trump administration's adverse policies against the Palestinians and not using Washington's special relationship to pressure (...)
Urgent action is required to prevent further deterioration of the economic, security and political situation across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the UN's Middle East envoy, Tor Wennesland, told the Security Council on Wednesday.
The fiscal (...)
It's still too early to predict whether Omicron's rapid spread will help push the coronavirus from the pandemic phase to a more manageable endemic phase -- but "I would hope that that's the case," Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday.
A disease that is (...)
A British man who took four people hostage at a synagogue in Texas had been investigated by MI5.
Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn in Lancashire, was the subject of an investigation in late 2020 but by the time he flew to the US he was assessed to (...)
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh called on the United States administration to put pressure on Israel in order to halt building settlements, and urged for re-opening the US Consulate in Jerusalem.
"This is not enough," the premier added (...)
Two teenagers have been arrested in England as part of the investigation into a hostage-taking incident at a synagogue in Texas on Saturday.
British citizen Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, was shot dead after a standoff with police in (...)
Before Covid-19, Nicolas Rimoldi had never attended a protest.
But somewhere along the pandemic's long and tortuous road, which saw his native Switzerland imposing first one lockdown, then another, and finally introducing vaccination certificates, (...)
Four people who were held hostage at a synagogue in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, have been freed unharmed after a 10-hour stand-off with police.
They were taken hostage during a morning service in Colleyville on Saturday. Police deployed special (...)
The UK Health Security Agency recommended against giving a fourth COVID-19 vaccine to the most vulnerable, stating that the need for further doses would continue to be reviewed.
Priority should continue to be given to rolling out first booster doses (...)
The Israeli health ministry on Sunday has permitted the country's food stores to sell rapid COVID-19 test kits in the hope of increasing availability and lowering prices of COVID-19 tests.
So far, home antigen test kits have only been allowed to (...)
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday held separate telephonic talks with his counterparts from Egypt and Israel with a focus on further expansion of bilateral ties.
Following his talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, (...)
The UN is urging authorities in Lebanon to conduct a quick and thorough investigation into an attack earlier this week against peacekeepers maintaining security and stability in the south of the country.
The 'blue helmets' were attacked on Tuesday (...)
A pro-Palestinian Instagram post from Hollywood star Emma Watson has sparked accusations of anti-Semitism from Israeli politicians, and a backlash against what many are calling the cynical weaponization of the term to attack supporters of the (...)
A deputy minister in the Israeli Naftali Bennett's government sparked an outcry on Thursday when he described illegal settlers in a West Bank outpost as "subhuman," the Associated Press reported.
Yair Golan, a former deputy military chief and a (...)
The pilot of a South Korean F-35A jet fighter made an emergency "belly landing" at an air base on Tuesday after its landing gear malfunctioned due to electronic issues, CNN reported quoting a South Korean Air Force spokesperson.
According to (...)
The Secretariat General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed grave concern over the critical health situation of the Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash, who is on an open hunger strike for the 141st day in protest (...)
South Africa has lifted overnight curfew rules, with officials saying the country may have passed the peak of its fourth wave of Covid-19 infections, BBC reported.
A government statement said the Omicron variant, while highly transmissible, had seen (...)
The US State Department said on Tuesday that it was "too soon to tell" if any progress had been made in restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as talks continue with Tehran.
Negotiations resumed in Vienna Monday in a fresh attempt to salvage the (...)
Tens of thousands of turkeys are being destroyed in Israel, as it tries to contain a serious avian flu outbreak, BBC reported.
More than 5,000 migratory cranes have already died at the Hula Nature Reserve, which Environment Minister Tamar Zandberg (...)
Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz approved a raft of measures aimed at improving relations with the Palestinians on Wednesday following a rare meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Israel.
Gantz met with Abbas at his (...)
Having heard and seen for himself the suffering of Lebanon's people, the UN chief told political leaders there on Tuesday that they "do not have the right to be divided", leaving the nation paralysed, amidst multiple crises.
"All government (...)
Israel says it plans to become the first country to roll out a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as the country prepares for a wave of infections driven by the new Omicron variant, BBC reported.
Israel's pandemic experts have recommended a fourth (...)
The deteriorating security situation in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, took center stage at the Security Council on Tuesday as the UN Special Coordinator for the peace process in the region, expressed his "continued concern" over (...)
One of the UN Secretary-General's most prominent stops during the second day of his visit to crisis-hit Lebanon was the port of Beirut, where he laid a wreath at the memorial for the victims of the explosion there which took the lives of more than (...)
