DUBAI, Aug 18 (NNN-WAM) – The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, said on Monday, the UAE’s peace accord with Israel was a sovereign decision that was not directed at Iran.
“We say this and repeat it,” Gargash wrote on Twitter. “We do not accept interference in our decisions.”
RAMALLAH, Aug 18 (NNN-WAFA) – The Israeli police shot dead yesterday, a Palestinian young man, in the old city in East Jerusalem, after he stabbed an Israeli police officer and wounded him, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
The sources said that, an Israeli police force shot and killed the Palestinian young man, who stabbed an Israeli police officer, in Bab Hatta, in East Jerusalem.
SANAA, Aug 18 (NNN-SABA) – A Yemeni senior military official and eight soldiers were killed, in battle with the Houthi rebels, in Yemen’s northeastern province of al-Jawf, a local medical source said.
General Mohammed Ali al-Roqn, commander of the 122 Brigade, along with eight soldiers, were killed in the battle, on Sunday, in al-Jadafir area east of Houthi-held al-Hazm in al-Jawf.
Yemen’s Prime Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik, said in a statement that, “al-Roqn was killed while leading military operations against the Houthi militia in al-Jawf.”
TUNIS, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian President Kais Saied met on Monday with visiting Italian Minister of Interior Luciana Lamorgese and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio to discuss the illegal immigration issue.
According to a statement released by the presidency, the two Italian ministers were accompanied by the European Commissioner for European Neighborhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi and European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson.
BEIRUT, August 17./TASS/: Lebanese investigators have issued an arrest warrant for the chief of Lebanese Customs, Badri Daher, over the Beirut port blast, Al Arabiya news channel reported on Monday.
It said the arrest warrant was issued after the official had given evidence. The customs chief was questioned for four hours, it stressed.
BEIRUT, Aug 17 (NNN-NNA) – Head of Lebanese Order of Physicians, Charaf Abou Charaf, said yesterday that, 2,000 physicians were impacted by the explosions, that rocked Beirut on Aug 4.
“Physicians were either injured or have their clinics destroyed, which necessitates quick measures, to support them, in addition to helping nurses to prevent them from immigrating, as many of them have started leaving the country,” Abou Charaf said.
He also noted that public hospitals are in need for financial support, which would also help physicians and encourage them to stay in Lebanon.
ABU DHABI, Aug 17 (NNN-WAM) – The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, summoned a senior diplomat from the Iranian embassy in Abu Dhabi yesterday, over its president’s speech, following the peace accord between Israel and UAE.
BAGHDAD, Aug 17 (NNN-NINA) – A Katyusha rocket landed yesterday, in the heavily fortified Green Zone, in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
A Katyusha rocket was fired from an area located near the al-Nahdha bus station, in downtown Baghdad, and landed on the zone, which houses some of the main Iraqi government offices and the U.S. embassy, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
RAMALLAH, Aug 17 (NNN-PNN) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said that, neither the United Arab Emirates (UAE) nor any other country has the right to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people.
During a phone conversation with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, Abbas warned that, if any other Arab country takes a similar step, Palestine will take the same position that they have taken towards UAE.
17 Aug 2020; MEMO: Secretary of Fatah Central Committee, Jibril Al-Rajoub, said yesterday that the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) ambassador had left the UAE and will not return, Anadolu reported.
His remarks came during an interview with Al Jazeera news network on Saturday. “Our ambassador has left the UAE and will never return back to it,” he said
He added: “Mohamed Dahlan, the dismissed Fatah leader [who lives in the UAE], is part of the normalisation deal between the UAE and Israel.”
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