Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks, as delivered by Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet, at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Pledging Conference, in New York today:Ladie…
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Protesters in Baqa al-Gharbiyye demand immediate release of cancer-stricken prisoner Walid Daqqa
Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated today in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in the 1948-occupied territories demanding Israeli occupation authorities to immediately release prisoner Walid Daqqa, a Palestinian in Israeli prisons since 1986 who is curren…
UN agency for Palestine refugees on verge of financial collapse
Chronic underfunding over the past decade, and resultant severe austerity measures, mean UNRWA is already operating with a $75 million shortfall, putting its lifesaving programmes across the Middle East at risk.“As I address you today, I do not have th…
OIC condemns Israel’s permission for settlers to establish six settlement outposts
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the Israeli occupation government’s permission for settlers to establish six settlement outposts in Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron. In a press statement issued this evening, the OIC affi…
Kuwait PM condoles with Indian pres. over train crash victims
His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Saturday sent a cable of condolences to Indian President Droupadi Murmu over the victims of a train crash in India’s eastern Odish State.Source: Kuwait News Agency
Settlers hurl stones at vehicles north of Ramallah
Extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones today at Palestinian vehicles on the road connecting the towns of Turmus Ayya and Al-Mughayir, to the northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources. They told WAFA t…
Kuwaiti firefighters rush to Al-Salmi to extinguish fire
Firemen scrambled on Friday to the used tires dumping site in Al-Salmi to battle a fire at the location.Five squads have joined hands to put out the blazes raging at A 3,000 sq m location, the Kuwait Fire Force said in a statement.More details will be …
EU, Central Asia call for stepping up of humanitarian aid for Afghanistan
The European Union and Central Asian countries Friday called on the international community to step up humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan and noted the key role of the UN in providing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.”The partic…