14 October 2022; MEMO: The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) says it holds the Fatah and Hamas movements responsible for removing a clause that stipulates forming a national unity government from the reconciliation deal signed yesterday.
14 October 2022; MEMO: Iraq's parliament yesterday elected Kurdish politician Abdul Latif Rashid as president. He then immediately named Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani prime minister-designate, ending a year of deadlock after a national election in October last year, Reuters reports.
JERUSALEM, Oct 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians broke out across the West Bank and East Jerusalem yesterday, killing another Palestinian youth.
The Israeli police said in a statement that, “hundreds” of Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in several neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem. The troops fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse them.
MANAMA, Oct 13 (NNN-BNA) – Bahrain attracted 98 million U.S. dollars of direct investment, in its information and communications technology (ICT) sector, in the first nine months of this year, the Bahrain Economic Development Board said, yesterday.
“We are pleased to see more and more ICT companies calling Bahrain home, for their regional operations,” the kingdom’s investment promotional agency said in a statement, announcing the direct investment from 14 foreign companies.
CAIRO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia rejected as "not based on facts" criticism of an OPEC+ decision last week to cut its oil production target despite U.S. objections, and said on Thursday that Washington's request to delay the cut by a month would have had negative economic consequences.
BEIRUT, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Thursday announced that it has reached an agreement with the Swiss government and the Sursock Palace Association to finance the rehabilitation of the Sursock Palace, an iconic building damaged by the Beirut port blasts two years ago.
"The Sursock Palace is a gem of Lebanese architecture and a powerful symbol of pride and resilience for the Beirut community, " UNESCO's Director General Audrey Azoulay said in a statement.
BEIRUT, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Lebanese parliament on Thursday failed for the second time in a month to elect a new head of state as President Michel Aoun's term is about to end in about two weeks.
House Speaker Nabih Berri announced the postponement of the election session to Oct. 20 after the parliament failed to secure a quorum for the election, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.
Only 71 out of 128 members of parliament (MPs) attended Thursday's session, while 86 Mps, or about two-thirds of the parliament, are needed to meet the quorum.
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said Thursday that the cash-strapped country has approved a U.S.-mediated maritime border deal with Israel.
Lebanon and Israel both claim around 860 square kilometers (330 square miles) of the Mediterranean Sea that are home to offshore gas fields.
The agreement to demarcate the maritime border comes after months of talks mediated by senior U.S. official Amos Hochstein, and would mark a major breakthrough in relations between the two countries, which have formally been at war since Israel’s creation in 1948.
Sydney; 7 Oct 2022 (UMMN): A PhD student from India was stabbed multiple times to his face, chest and abdomen in Sydney’s Artamon. He was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital and underwent surgery. He remains in a serious but stable condition.
12 October 2022; MEMO: Before the start of Palestinian national meetings in Algiers yesterday, Fatah rejected an Algerian proposal for the internal Palestinian reconciliation, Quds Press reported yesterday.
"While the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has accepted the Algerian proposal for the reconciliation with Fatah, the latter rejected the proposal and suggested two major changes," an informed source told Quds Press.
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