JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in an attack that came a week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza, police and medics said.
Two of the victims were in serious condition, including a pregnant woman with abdominal injuries and a man with gunshot wounds to the head and neck, according to Israeli hospitals treating them.
CAIRO (AP) — A fire ripped through a packed church during morning services in Egypt’s capital on Sunday, killing at least 41 worshippers and injuring 14.
The church quickly filled with thick black smoke, and witnesses said several trapped congregants jumped from upper floors to escape. “Suffocation, suffocation, all of them dead,” said a distraught witness, who only gave a partial name, Abu Bishoy.
14 August 2022; MEMO: At least 35 people were killed and 45 injured in a fire inside a church in the Egyptian city of Giza on Sunday, two security sources told Reuters.
An electrical fire broke out as 5,000 worshippers gathered for Mass at the Coptic Abu Sifin church in the Imbaba neighbourhood, the sources said.
The fire blocked an entrance to the church, causing a stampede, they said, adding that most of those killed were children, Reuters reports.
12 August 2022; MEMO: An Israeli settler rammed his car into Palestinian activist Bayan Al-Tabib on Thursday evening during a peaceful protest against settler and army attacks against Palestinians. The attack took place on a main road linking the cities of Nablus and Jenin in the Israeli-occupied northern West Bank, Anadolu has reported.
14 August 2022; MEMO: Saudi Arabian and US forces have launched a joint military exercise in the Red Sea province of Yanbu yesterday.
According to state news agency SPA, the month-long drill, codenamed "Native Fury 22" will include combined tactics, interoperability, and logistical operations between Saudi and US naval counterparts.
"The exercise aims at training on bilateral military and operational plans as well as exchanging expertise between the two sides," Saudi general Saud Al-Okaili was quoted as saying.
13 August 2022; MEMO: Protests spread throughout northern Syria over the past few days, after remarks by Turkiye's Foreign Minister hinting at a possible reconciliation with the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
At a news conference on Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that he had met his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad at a conference in Serbia last October, and that the Turkish and Syrian intelligence services had restarted contact with each other.
13 August 2022; MEMO: France has expanded visa restrictions to include former Moroccan ministers, officials and businesspeople, Rai Al-Youm online newspaper reported on Friday.
Controversy over the French visa policy relating to Moroccans has moved from social to mass media, condemning Paris's "degrading policy" concerning Moroccans who apply for visas to visit France.
13 August 2022; MEMO: The Kurdish autonomous administration on Friday handed over around 700 people to the Iraqi government, most of whom are relatives of members of Daesh and detained inside a camp in north-eastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
SOHR stated that more than 620 relatives of the organisation's members left Al-Hol camp by joint coordination between the camp administration and the Iraqi government.
13 August 2022; MEMO: An Israeli woman accused of spying for Iran and put under house arrest in December has attempted to commit suicide on Thursday.
According to Israeli paramedics, the woman had tried to overdose on pills and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Iraq announced on Saturday that it had received 50 prisoners who were militants of the Islamic State (IS) captured earlier in Syria.
"Through joint understandings and agreements, Iraq received 50 IS members, who are Iraqi citizens, from the Syrian side," tweeted the Security Media Cell (SMC), a media outlet affiliated with Iraq's armed forces.
The handover of the prisoners was carried out at the Rabia border crossing in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, according to the SMC.
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