JERUSALEM, Sept 11 (NNN-MA’AN) – Polls released on Tuesday, predicted a narrow victory by Israel’s opposition party, in the Israeli elections next week.
Two separate polls released by Israel’s main TV news channels, showed that the centrist Blue and White party wins 32 seats, in the 120-seat parliament, while Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud ruling party wins only 31.
KHARTOUM, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's ruling Sovereign Council on Tuesday announced that it is closer to reaching a comprehensive peace deal with the armed groups during the talks in South Sudan's capital Juba.
"The two parties to Juba talks have agreed on most of the outstanding issues between them," said the council in a press release.
South Sudan is currently hosting talks between Sudan's Sovereign Council and leaders of armed groups in Sudan's Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions, under a mediation initiative by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit.
CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian and Arab leaders on Tuesday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to annex the occupied Jordan Valley in the West Bank, while warning it could kill the peace process.
Netanyahu said on Tuesday that he would annex the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank right after Israel's Sept. 17 election, if he wins re-election.
"I intend to apply Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea immediately after the elections," Netanyahu said in a televised speech.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 31 people died and another 100 were wounded on Tuesday during the Shi’ite Muslim religious rituals of Ashura in the Iraqi city of Karbala, a Health Ministry spokesman said, offering no details as to how they died.
Ashura marks the day when, according to Islamic tradition, the Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) grandson Imam Hussain was killed in battle in the year 680. Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims from around the world converge each year on Karbala, the site of the battle.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel has exposed a nuclear weapons development site in Iran, calling for world leaders to increase the pressure on Iran.
In a live broadcast on Israel's main TV channels, Netanyahu said that the nuclear site was discovered in Abadeh, a county in Iran's southern Fars province.
He presented two aerial photos, saying that they indicate that Iran had destroyed the site after learning that Israel discovered its purpose.
RAQQA, Syria (AP) — The neighbors reported a foul smell coming from the house next door. The house, which the Islamic State group had used as a school for its “cubs,” had been untouched ever since the militants were chased out of the Syrian city two years ago. Weeds grew around an abandoned car in its courtyard.
Even before the first responders felt the soft ground of the courtyard, they knew what was underneath: the latest mass grave in Raqqa, the former capital of the Islamic State group’s self-declared “caliphate.”
ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) — Thirty-four migrants including women and a small child who had been rescued by a German sailboat were successfully transferred to a larger humanitarian ship during a thunderstorm in international waters north of Libya.
The transfer happened late Monday about 120 kilometers (75 miles) off the Libyan coast, near the Bouri offshore oil field.
The 22 men, six women and a 1-year-old boy had been rescued earlier in the day from a rubber boat with a broken engine by the crew of a 14-meter-long sailboat operated by the German charity Resqship.
10 Sep 2019; MEMO: The Israeli High Court gave the Israeli army the green light on Monday to block the release of the bodies of Palestinians killed by occupation forces, Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre (JLAC) has revealed. The corpses will be used as bargaining chips in any future negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
10 Sep 2019; MEMO: The leader of Israel’s Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) party, Benny Gantz, is planning to propose a bill which would ban the prime minister and other ministers from staying in office while they are being charged with corruption, Arab48.com reported on Monday.
10 Sep 2019; MEMO: The Popular Mobilisation Forces militia umbrella organisation has accused Israel of striking its sites in Al-Qaem Governorate in the west of Iraq, Arab48.com reported on Monday.
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