TEL AVIV, October 23. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin called Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday to invite him to visit St. Petersburg, Bennett’s office said, adding that the prime minister accepted the invitation and said he would be pleased to make another visit to Russia.
GAZA, Oct 23 (NNN-QNA) – Qatari Ambassador to Palestine, Mohammed al-Emadi, yesterday, inaugurated a hospital for rehabilitation and prosthetics in northern Gaza Strip.
During the inauguration ceremony he said, the Gaza Strip “is going to be better this year and the coming years.”
When meeting with Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip on Monday, al-Emadi said that, Qatar was exerting great efforts with all parties, including Israel and the Palestinians, to prevent a new round of tension in the Gaza Strip.
RAMALLAH, Oct 23 (NNN-WAFA) – The European Union (EU) mission to Palestine, yesterday condemned the Israeli measures against Palestinian children in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to an official EU statement.
The statement said that the EU “was appalled to witness a series of violations against Palestinian children by the Israeli occupation forces, in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”
DUBAI, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Swedish and Pakistani ministers warned on Saturday.
Afghanistan plunged into crisis after the hardline Islamist Taliban movement drove out the Western-backed government in August triggering the abrupt end of billions of dollars in assistance to its aid-dependent economy.
"The country is on the brink of collapse and that collapse is coming faster than we thought," Swedish development minister Per Olsson Fridh told Reuters in Dubai.
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - An Ethiopian government air strike on the capital of the northern Tigray region on Friday forced a U.N. flight carrying aid workers to abort a landing there, the United Nations said.
Humanitarian sources and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the area, said a university in Mekelle was hit by the strike.
Government spokesperson Legesse Tulu said a former military base occupied by TPLF fighters was targeted, and he denied the university was hit.
ISTANBUL, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had ordered the foreign ministry to declare 10 ambassadors from Western countries 'persona non grata' for calling for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.
Kavala has been in prison for four years, charged with financing nationwide protests in 2013 and with involvement in a failed coup in 2016. He denies the charges.
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s chief diplomat says the transitional government is working to hold long-awaited elections later this year, but security and political and economic stability are necessary for a peaceful transition to a new government.
Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush’s comments came in an interview with The Associated Press late Friday in the capital of Tripoli. She spoke a day after the Libyan government hosted a high-level conference aimed at resolving the country’s thorniest issues ahead of elections scheduled for late December.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — One of the world’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, announced Saturday it aims to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try and curb man-made climate change.
The announcement, made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in brief scripted remarks at the start of the kingdom’s first-ever Saudi Green Initiative Forum, was timed to make a splash a little more than a week before the start of the global COP26 climate conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland.
22 Oct 2021; MEMO: Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission yesterday announced its rejection of 174 appeals and acceptance to seven others submitted by candidates and political parties following the announcement of election results.
22 Oct 2021; MEMO: Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday sacked the Governor of Gafsa, Sami El-Ghabi, according to an official statement.
"The President of the Republic, Kais Saied, issued on Thursday, a presidential order to end Sami El-Ghabi's tasks as the governor of Gafsa," the presidency said in a statement.
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