Israel has approved hundreds of new settlement homes in occupied East Jerusalem, after the staunch pro-Israel US President Donald Trump took office. Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Meir Turgeman told AFP: “Now we can finally build.” Israel’s PM reportedly delayed approval given the opposition of Barack Obama, who infuriated Israel by allowing a UN resolution against settlements […]
Key figures in Donald Trump’s administration have become embroiled in a fresh war of words with the media. On Saturday the president had condemned media reporting of the number of people attending his inauguration. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said there was “an obsession… to de-legitimise this president. We’re not going to sit […]
Hungary has declared Monday a national day of mourning for the victims of a bus mishap in Italy late Friday, which killed 16 members of a Hungarian school group. In the capital of Budapest, residents have created a memorial outside the school, placing flowers and burning candles by the wall. The bus, carrying Hungarian students […]
JERUSALEM — The Jerusalem municipality approved construction of 560 new housing units in settlement neighborhoods of the city on Sunday, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony. The permits, by the Jerusalem Local Planning and Building Committee, were given to residential projects in Ramot and Ramat Shlomo, both are settlement neighborhoods in East […]
U.S. President Donald Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit him at the White House in February, as the two leaders held their first phone talk on Sunday. A statement released by Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office characterized the talk as “very warm.” “The two leaders discussed the deal with Iran, the peace process […]
Albania and the World Bank are concluding an agreement on a 150-million-U.S.-dollar project aimed at improving maintenance of roads in Albania, local media reported on Sunday. Citing sources from the Albanian Ministry of Infrastructure, the report said the Albanian government and World Bank will likely hire four companies to maintain 1,300 kilometers of national roads […]
Ex-education minister Benoit Hamon on Sunday came top out of seven candidates in the first round of French Left primary to choose a presidential election, partial results showed. First results based on 3,090 polling stations out of a total 7,534, Hamon was seen collecting 35.21 percent of the vote, making a lead to former French […]
Bank deposits in Macedonia registered an annual growth rate of 5.7 percent in December 2016, official data have revealed. On a monthly basis, deposits rose 4 percent from the previous month, local media reported on Sunday, citing data from the National Bank of Macedonia. The monthly growth registered in December 2016 was the highest recorded […]
Iran welcomed peaceful power transition in Gambia as the former President Yahya Jammeh left the country following 22 years in power, Press TV reported on Sunday. The Islamic republic has always paid particular attention to the developments in the Gambia as an important Muslim country in West Africa, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on […]
Representatives from five OPEC and non-OPEC countries on Sunday held their inaugural joint meeting in Vienna and agreed measures to monitor output cuts. The attendees at the Joint OPEC-Non-OPEC Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) discussed the implementation of the Declaration of Cooperation signed by the 13 OPEC and 11 non-OPEC member countries in December, that subsequently […]
About 300 people were evacuated from a ski resort in Ostruzna, Czech Republic over an anonymous call claiming bombs were planted there on Sunday morning, said Czech police spokeswoman Irena Urbankova. No bomb was eventually found, Urbankova said. Urbankova said the police received an anonymous call saying that an unspecified number of bombs were planted […]
Somalia took a step closer to electing a new president Sunday after completing the election of the Senate Speaker and two deputies. Abdi Hashi Abdullahi, an outspoken veteran politician from the break-away region of Somaliland, emerged as winner of the Senate Speaker election, which took place about a week after the Lower House picked its […]
The Egyptian public prosecution said Sunday that it would allow Italian experts to examine the camera recordings of an underground metro station in Giza as part of an investigation into the mysterious death of an Italian researcher in Cairo last year. According to Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Nabil Sadeq, the Italian prosecution would send experts to […]
About 1 million left-wing French voters on Sunday headed to polling stations to cast ballots in a presidential primary, organizers said. Based on account of 70 percent of 7,534 polling sites, one million had voted by 17h00 local time (1600 GMT) against 1.5 million at the same time in the first round in 2011, data […]
Mr Andrews K. Mensah, Registrar of a Circuit Court in Ho said at the weekend that students cannot continue to demonstrate ill-will towards technological knowledge acquisition in the 21st Century and succeed. He observed that the grandeur of the social media had taken the better part of students learning time at the expense of using […]
The following are news highlights in Kenyan media outlets on Sunday. — Foreign envoys in Kenya call for a credible General Election in August, two days after a new electoral commission took office. The 25 ambassadors and high commissioners said in a joint statement Saturday that mishandling the electoral process may lead to violence, which […]
The following are news items in South African major media outlets on Sunday. — Treasury said on Saturday Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will only be responding to the latest attack by the Indian Gupta family through his responding affidavit to be submitted next Friday. Last October, Gordhan filed an explosive affidavit which reveals suspicious transactions […]
From an ancient Chinese pagoda to the pyramids of Egypt, a major exhibition of famous buildings created using Lego building bricks is on show in Nottinghamshire. More than 70 works by professional Lego artist Warren Elsmore will be on display at the Harley Gallery until April 2. The show includes brick models showcasing new wonders […]
U.S. stocks wavered for the holiday-shortened week as Wall Street pondered over a batch of global economic and political events. On Monday, U.S. stocks were closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. On Tuesday, U.S. stocks ended lower after wavering in a tight range, as investors meditated on comments from British Prime Minister […]
Children with asthma may be at higher obesity risk later in childhood or in adolescence, according to new research published online this week. Researchers from the University of Southern California found that young children with asthma were 51 percent more likely to become obese over the next 10 years than children who did not have […]
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