28 May 2020; MEMO: A proposed law by Kuwaiti MPs has been submitted which seeks to address a long-standing demographic imbalance between expat workers and Kuwaiti nationals. If approved, it could lead to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers being laid off and replaced with locals.
28 May 2020; MEMO: Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem will reopen for worshippers on Sunday, the Anadolu Agency reported the Jordanian Minister of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Places, Muhammad Al-Khalayleh, announcing yesterday.
The mosque has been closed for two months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
28 May 2020; MEMO: Militias fighting alongside the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad destroyed and desecrated the grave of the eighth Umayyad Caliph Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz yesterday, located in the north-west province of Idlib.
28 May 2020; MEMO: Al-Karama Coalition bloc in the Tunisian parliament announced the presentation of a legislative initiative calling for the cancellation of an investment agreement between Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), signed during the era of ousted president Zine El-
28 May 2020; MEMO: US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Tuesday urged Israeli officials to stop Chinese investment of 5G in the country, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
RAMALLAH, May 28 (NNN-WAFA) – Official institutions in Palestine, on Wednesday, resumed work after several months’ lock-down, all over the West Bank, due to the COVID-19.
The move is part of the Palestinian government’s decision, to ease the restrictions and precautionary measures, against the virus, which have been taken since Mar 5.
Palestine on Wednesday (yesterday), said that, eight new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of cases in the Palestinian territories to 613.
TEHRAN, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Iranian lawmakers on Thursday unanimously elected Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, former mayor of the capital Tehran, as the speaker of the country's new parliament, official IRNA news agency reported.
Qalibaf, candidate of principlist faction, won 230 votes from the 267 lawmakers present at the parliament.
Meanwhile, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi and Ali Nikzad were elected as the first and second vice speakers of parliament.
AMMAN, May 28 (NNN-PETRA) – Jordan warned, on Wednesday, that the Israeli annexation of occupied Palestinian territories is a breach of international law and will undermine regional peace.
The remarks were made by Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Safadi, during a phone call with THE United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, on Wednesday.
27 May 2020; MEMO: Israeli politician Avigdor Lieberman accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of dragging Israel into a “civil war” to save himself and to escape personal problems.
“To get rid of personal troubles and to distract from problems he is responsible for, such as high unemployment and the like, he is inciting the public against itself,” Lieberman told Kan radio in an interview.
27 May 2020; MEMO: China cut its imports of oil from Saudi Arabia last month, customs data issued by the authorities in Beijing revealed this week. During the same period, imports of Russian crude oil increased.
Imports of Russian crude in China were 1.75 million barrels per day in April, compared with 1.66 million barrels in March. In contrast, oil imported from Saudi Arabia fell to 1.26 million barrels per day, compared with 1.7 million barrels in March.
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