JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Facebook has taken down content that spread lies in Israel against coronavirus vaccinations as the government seeks to drum up support for the programme, the Justice Ministry said on Sunday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday became the first person to be vaccinated in Israel. Opinion polls show some two-thirds of the public want to follow suit.
CAIRO, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi discussed on Saturday the efforts to resume the Middle East peace process with foreign ministers of Jordan and Palestine.
During a meeting in Cairo, President Sisi affirmed to the Jordanian and Palestinian foreign ministers that his country will continue its tireless efforts to solve the Palestinian cause, Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus on a live television broadcast Saturday evening.
Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein received the shot at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu was the first Israeli to receive the vaccine, hours before a major roll-out of the vaccinations was to begin in the country.
"This is a great day," Netanyahu told reporters at Sheba, "I believe in this vaccine and I am doing this to serve as a role model and encourage people to get vaccinated."
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel on Sunday began its coronavirus inoculation drive, aiming to vaccinate some 60,000 people a day in a bid to stamp out the illness that is once again surging among its population.
The country will first immunize health workers, followed by the elderly, high-risk Israelis and those over 60 years old. Israel says it has secured sufficient doses for much of the country’s 9 million people from both Pfizer and Moderna, whose vaccine U.S. authorities approved this week for emergency use.
19 Dec 2020; MEMO: Turkey is not afraid of the US's unilateral sanctions, the country's vice president said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports.
"As always, we will continue to be on the side of common sense, in line with the interests of our nation. We are not afraid of [US's unilateral] sanction. Turkey does not [need] to be discouraged by any sanction," Fuat Oktay told the lawmakers in his closing speech while debating the 2021 budget in the parliament.
19 Dec 2020; MEMO: The Sudanese army declared on Friday that the international borders with Ethiopia are clear and indisputable and that they "will not give up one inch" of their country's territory.
BEIRUT, Dec 19 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanon signed, yesterday, a cooperation agreement with the World Food Programme (WFP), to boost the country’s agriculture sector.
Lebanese Agriculture Minister, Abbas Mortada, said, only the agriculture sector is capable of guaranteeing food security for Lebanon while securing access to food at reasonable prices, amid the current economic crisis.
ADEN, Yemen, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's internationally-recognized President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Friday ordered the formation of a new power-sharing government, the state-run news agency reported.
According to a presidential decree, Hadi chose the former Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik to lead the new power-sharing government formed equally between the country's northern and southern provinces.
BAGHDAD, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A well-known Iraqi activist has been killed in Baghdad, fellow activists and local media say.
Salah al-Iraqi was reportedly shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Baghdad al-Jadida area on Tuesday evening.
Iraqi played an active role in the mass protests against government corruption, high unemployment and dire public services that erupted last year.
In his last Facebook post hours before his death, he had written: “The innocent die while the cowards rule.”
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Prominent Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, already in jail for more than three years without being convicted, denied charges against him on Friday as an Istanbul court opened a new trial in which he is accused of involvement in an attempted coup in 2016.
Ankara’s Western allies have raised concerns about Kavala’s detention and the European Court of Human Rights has said it only serves to silence him. After President Tayyip Erdogan last month promised judicial reforms, rights activists and opposition politicians redoubled calls for his release.
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