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  • April 19, 2021

    Fatah and PLO: No elections without Jerusalem

    Member of Fatah’s Central Committee and the PLO’s Executive Committee Azzam Al-Ahmad yesterday reiterated that the PLO and Fatah will not accept carrying out elections without Jerusalem. Speaking to Voice...

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  • April 19, 2021

    Gaza records highest number of covid deaths

    The besieged Gaza Strip yesterday recorded the highest number of COVID-19 fatalities, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the coastal enclave said. According to the daily briefing issued by...

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  • April 18, 2021

    Casualties as passenger train derails in Egypt

    Casualties were reported as a train derailed just north of the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. According to a statement from the National Railways Authority of Egypt, the...

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  • April 18, 2021

    Israel summons director of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque

    The Israeli intelligence service on Sunday summoned Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, the director of East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, for interrogation, according to the Jordan-run Islamic Endowments Authority, Anadolu Agency reported. The authority,...

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  • April 18, 2021

    Israel arrests 144 Palestinians in April

    Israeli forces detained 144 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the first half of April, according to a Palestinian research center on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. Six women and five...

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  • April 18, 2021

    Syria: Opposition slams May 26 elections

    Syria will hold a presidential election on May 26 that is virtually certain to return President Bashar al-Assad for a third term – an event that Washington and the...

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  • April 18, 2021

    Parliament: Syria to hold presidential elections on May 26

    Syria will hold its presidential election on May 26, the country’s parliament said on Sunday, a vote which is expected to return President Bashar al Assad for a third...

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  • April 18, 2021

    Magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits southern Iran

    A magnitude 5.9 earthquake on Sunday struck Iran’s southern province of Bushehr, where a nuclear power plant is located, but there were no immediate reports of major damage, Reuters reported....

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  • April 18, 2021

    Syrians in Denmark in limbo after ruling by authorities

    Rasha Kairout could be stripped of her residence permit and asylum status after Denmark deemed Damascus and surrounding areas safe for the return of refugees, Anadolu Agency reports. Kairout took refuge...

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  • April 18, 2021

    Ethiopia: 2nd filling of Nile dam due in rainy season

    Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Sunday that the 2nd filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) would be conducted in July and August, Anadolu Agency reported. Ethiopia broke...

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