09 Dec 2020; MEMO: Iraqi President Barham Salih yesterday called on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq to listen to protesters' legitimate demands and refrain from resorting to violence, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.
An Arab businesswoman has announced her intention to stand in Israel's presidential election, the Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. If elected by the Knesset, Ahlam Khazen would be the country's first non-Jewish president. The seven-year tenure of current President Reuven Rivlin ends in July next year.
"I want to represent all the people of Israel and all the parties," explained Khazen. "I want to reinforce coexistence."
09 Dec 2020; MEMO: UAE companies signed deals to buy products from illegal Israeli settlements even before the normalisation agreement was announced, the Jerusalem Post revealed on Tuesday. The details emerged in a story about a new deal signed with Dubai-based FAM Holding to export products from Israeli settlements built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
09 Dec 2020; MEMO: Christian and Islamic sanctities are one of the founding symbols of the Palestinian Arab national identity, Joint List member Sami Abu Shehadeh said during a visit to the Gethsemane Church in the Mount of Olives in occupied Jerusalem yesterday, days after settlers attempted to set fire to the holy site.
GAZA, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- An EU delegation said on Tuesday that the EU will provide necessary medical gear for COVID-19 tests in the Gaza Strip and work to deliver vaccines to the besieged enclave once they are available.
"Once the vaccine is available, it would be first provided for those working on the front line of medical care and elderly patients," Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, the EU representative in Palestine, told a press conference in Gaza.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates said Wednesday a Chinese coronavirus vaccine tested in the federation of sheikhdoms is 86% effective, in a statement that provided few details but marked the first public release of information on the efficacy of the shot.
The UAE, home to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, conducted a trial beginning in September of the vaccine by Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm involving 31,000 volunteers from 125 nations. Volunteers between 18 and 60 years old received two doses of the vaccine over 28 days.
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Anan Yasoun rebuilt her home with yellow cement slabs amid the rubble of Mosul, a brightly colored manifestation of resilience in a city that for many remains synonymous with the Islamic State group’s reign of terror.
DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (NNN-SANA) – A series of explosion were heard in Syria’s south-western Quneitra Governorate today, causing no casualties, so far, Syrian media reported.
According to reports by Alikhbaria TV (Syrian News Channel), the sounds of powerful blasts were heard, in the southern suburbs of the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of Quneitra, in the early morning hours.
The explosions occurred near the country’s border with Israel, and it was unclear what caused the blasts, the reports said.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey wants to improve ties with the European Union on the basis of full membership, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday, adding that problems between them could only be solved if the bloc acted with common sense at a summit this week and beyond.
On Monday, EU foreign ministers said Turkey had failed to help resolve a dispute with EU members Greece and Cyprus over natural gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean, but they left any decision on retaliatory sanctions for an EU summit on Thursday.
08 Dec 2020; MEMO: The Evangelical Association in Egypt has set up a school to "treat" homosexuality, reports the Egypt Independent.
Pastor Tony George, who works for the Evangelicals Association in Egypt and the Middle East, said that homosexuality has its roots in childhood trauma and that the school will help people on the path to change.
"Recovering from homosexuality is not impossible," he said.
© Copyright
Links: ummshadi.org
