RAMALLAH, Sept 9 (NNN-WAFA) – At least 100 Palestinian protesters were injured yesterday, in clashes with Israeli soldiers, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian medics and eyewitnesses said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that, 100 Palestinians were injured by Israeli soldiers, in clashes with them, in the villages of Beita and Huwara near Nablus.
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan party run by a billionaire considered close to the monarchy won the most seats in legislative elections, while the Islamist party that has been in power for a decade suffered a stinging defeat, according to results announced Thursday.
09 Sep 2021; MEMO: Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem yesterday in support of prisoners who are enduring Israel's reprisals after six detainees escaped from a high security facility.
09 Sep 2021; MEMO: A United Nations panel found that 18,000 Yemeni civilians had been killed or wounded in air strikes since 2015 during the ongoing conflict in the country.
A report presented to the Human Rights Council yesterday said Yemenis have been subjected to some ten air strikes a day, a total of more than 23,000 since March 2015.
09 Sep 2021; MEMO: Lebanon's caretaker minister of social affairs today announced the launch of cash subsidy cards for 500,000 families saying that negotiations were under way for them to be partly funded from new IMF SDR allocations and World Bank loans, Reuters reports.
The government introduced a subsidy programme last year to finance the import of basic goods such as wheat, fuel and medicine which has all but depleted foreign reserves and is now being phased out.
09 Sep 2021; MEMO: Recently released Palestinian detainee Anhar Al-Deek has today given birth to her son Alaa.
Anhar was released on 2 September after a mass social media campaign calling for her to be allowed out of prison to give birth to her son.
09 Sep 2021; MEMO: Morocco said turnout in yesterday's parliamentary election was just over 50 per cent, higher than in 2016 after authorities combined it with local elections that traditionally draw better participation, Reuters reported.
09 Sep 2021; MEMO: Israeli security and intelligence services have been involved since Monday in "the largest manhunt" in the occupation state's history in the search for six Palestinians who escaped from the high-security Gilboa Prison through a tunnel. As the search continues, the Israel Defence Forces Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, has boosted the number of soldiers involved in the manhunt.
09 Sep 2021; MEMO: The future of Algeria's gas pipeline which supplies southern Spain via Morocco is shrouded in mystery as the diplomatic row between Rabat and Algiers persists and the contractual deadline for using the transit pipeline looms.
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday the al-Qaida extremist group that used Afghanistan as a staging base to attack United States 20 years ago may attempt to regenerate there following an American withdrawal that has left the Taliban in power.
Austin spoke to a small group of reporters in Kuwait City at the conclusion of a four-day tour of Persian Gulf states. He said the United States is prepared to prevent an al-Qaida comeback in Afghanistan that would threaten the United States.
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