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  • September 19, 2018

    Yemen central bank nearly doubles interest rate

    Yemen’s central bank nearly doubled its interest rate today in an effort to stabilise the riyal after violent demonstrations against a plunging currency, Reuters reported. State news agency Saba...

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  • September 19, 2018

    Saudi Arabia bans 300,000 Palestinians from Makkah

    Saudi Arabia issued new directives banning up to 300,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon from performing pilgrimage, Alarab.qa reported yesterday. Reporting the Palestinian Institution for Human Rights (Shahed), the Qatari...

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  • September 19, 2018

    Oil prices retreat due to US tariffs on China imports

    Prices of crude oil retreated yesterday after the US placed new tariffs on Chinese imports, media reports said. As part of a new phase of trade tensions between the...

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  • September 19, 2018

    Palestinians in Europe launch conference to discuss threats to Palestine

    A group of Palestinian societies in Europe are planning to launch a comprehensive conference in Berlin on Sunday, a statement said. The organisers called for all members of the...

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  • September 19, 2018

    Qatar ambassador visits field hospitals in Gaza

    Qatar’s Ambassador to Palestine has visited the field hospitals established in the Gaza Strip by the Jordanian and Moroccan authorities, Alarab.qa reported on Tuesday. Mohammed Al-Emadi met with officials...

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  • September 19, 2018

    Hamas: Fatah’s conditions make reconciliation impossible

    Fatah’s conditions “make reaching reconciliation very impossible”, the head of Hamas’ Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh said yesterday. Speaking at a conference to mark 30 years since the movement was...

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  • September 19, 2018

    1,000 Ethiopia Jews to move to Israel

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a ministerial committee that he would allow 1,000 Ethiopian Jews from the Falash Mura tribe to move to Israel, Israeli media reported on...

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  • September 19, 2018

    The Sudanese intelligence services are likely to jail more officers for corruption

    This week’s sentencing of one of the most powerful intelligence officers in Sudan has not only sent shockwaves through the ranks of the National Security and Intelligence Service (NISS)...

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  • September 19, 2018

    Palestinian shot dead in Jerusalem

    A Palestinian man was shot by Israeli occupation forces yesterday outside Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem. Police sealed off the street while the body of a 26-year-old Palestinian...

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  • September 19, 2018

    France calls for support for Morocco, Algeria to halt illegal immigration

    Morocco and Algeria are ready to cooperate with us but they are seeking international financial support to secure their borders, France’s interior minister, Gerard Collomb, said yesterday. Speaking in...

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