07 Apr 2023; MEMO: Israel's police commissioner on Friday called on Israeli settlers who have firearms licenses to carry their guns for now amid tension with Palestinians, reports Anadolu agency.
Kobi Shabtai made the remarks following an attack near the Hamra settlement in the northern West Bank which left two Israeli settlers dead and a third critically injured.
07 Apr 2023; MEMO: Tunisia's President Kais Saied stressed on Thursday that his country "is not for sale" and that national decisions must be "based on the will of the people." He accused unnamed internal factions of attempting to "sell Tunisia to foreign interests." His remarks came during a media statement on the sidelines of commemorating the death anniversary of former Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba (1956-1987).
ANKARA, April 7. /TASS/: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed concern over the escalation between Palestine and Israel following clashes in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and called on the parties to the conflict to refrain from further escalation and that the international community stand together to defend religious sites.
ANKARA, April 7. /TASS/: Moscow is in favor of resuming multilateral negotiations to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which would involve the Quartet on the Middle East and the Arab League, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference after talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday.
JERUSALEM/GAZA, April 7 (Reuters) - Israel's military hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza early on Friday, in retaliation for rocket attacks it blamed on the Islamist group Hamas, as tensions following police raids this week on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem threatened to spiral out of control.
Loud blasts rocked different areas of Gaza, as Israel said its jets hit 10 targets including tunnels and weapons manufacturing and development sites of Hamas, which controls the blockaded southern coastal strip.
RIYADH/ADEN, April 7 (Reuters) - Saudi and Omani envoys are planning to visit Yemen's capital Sanaa next week to negotiate a permanent ceasefire deal with Iran-aligned Houthi officials and end an eight-year-old conflict there, two people involved in the talks said.
The move signals that regional rifts are easing after rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to restore relations last month following years of hostility and backing opposite sides in Middle Eastern conflicts, including Yemen.
CAIRO, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Despite its attempt to masquerade as a "beacon of democracy" by convening the second so-called "Summit for Democracy," the United States is by no means democratic given its hegemony-based foreign policy, an expert has said.
"The United States wants to portray itself as a beacon of democracy ... but the gap is wide when it comes to implementing democracy in its relation" with other countries, said Mokhtar Ghobashy, deputy chairman of the Cairo-based Arab Center for Political and Strategic Studies, in an interview with Xinhua.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia may pull out of a wartime deal that allows the export of Ukrainian grain to global markets if the West fails to remove obstacles to Russian agricultural exports, Moscow’s top diplomat suggested Friday.
The deal, which was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July, unblocked shipments that were stuck in Ukraine’s blockaded and mined ports, alleviating rising food prices and threat of hunger in some countries.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel launched rare strikes in southern Lebanon early Friday and pressed on with bombing targets in the Gaza Strip, marking a widening escalation in the region following violence this week at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site.
The cross-border fighting erupted during a time of heightened religious fervor — when Jews are celebrating the Passover holiday and Muslims are marking the Ramadan holy month. In 2021, an escalation also triggered by clashes at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, spilled over into an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel conducted rare airstrikes in Lebanon and continued bombarding the Gaza Strip on Friday, an escalation that sparked fears of a broader conflict following violence over Jerusalem’s most sensitive site.
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