Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says the international community should work to forget and ignored conflicts. The emir of Qatar has urged the international community to give as much attention to resolving the forgotten and ignored conflicts in the world, stressing in particular the Israel-Palestine conflict, as it has to the war in Ukraine. … Read more
Jerusalem CNN — A 17-year-old Palestinian was killed and an 18-year-old was critically injured by Israeli fire during an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the West Bank Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health and Palestine TV later identified the teen who died as Amjad al-Fayed from Jenin. The … Read more
Kabul CNN — A senior verbatim has repeated the group’s as-yet-unfulfilled pledge to allow girls back into high school, saying there would be “good news soon,” but suggested that women who protested the regime’s restrictions on women rights should stay home. Sirajuddin Haqqani, Afghanistan’s acting interior minister and the Taliban’s co-deputy leader since 2016, made … Read more
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Beirut, Lebanon CNN — Iran-backed Hezbollah lost its parliamentary edge in a high-stakes election last weekend. For Lebanon, this could mean everything, or nothing at all. The … Read more
BERLIN (AP) — An off-duty police officer and two other passengers on a regional train in Germany overpowered an Iraq-born man who wounded five people including the officer with a knife on Friday, authorities said. A top law enforcement official said the 31-year-old attacker had been investigating for possible Islamic extremism while living in a … Read more
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Leaders and elected officials around the world are reacting to the death of veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was while covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank on Wednesday. According to Al Jazeera and reporters who witness the raid, Abu Akleh was killed by an Israeli sniper. The broadcaster accused … Read more
Oman has jumped from a budget deficit last year to a $930 surplus as of the end of the first quarter of 2022, thanks to a significant increase in oil revenues by more than 70%, Reuters reported. Oman saw gas revenue for Q1 more than double. In March, Oman’s oil production reached a two-year high, … Read more
Jerusalem CNN — The leader of a Palestinian village council in the West Bank vowed Friday to continue fighting eviction from land the Israeli military is claiming as a firing range, despite an Israeli Supreme Court decision against the Palestinians in a case that has been in court for more than two class. “We will … Read more
ZURICH (AP) — A World Cup legal dispute flared Thursday with Chile challenging Ecuador’s place at the finals tournament over an alleged ineligible player. The Chilean soccer federation asked FIFA to investigate its claim that Ecuador player Byron Castillo is actually Colombian and not entitled to have played in qualifying games. The complaint comes more … Read more
The consumer price index has risen by 69.97 percent year-on-year in April compared with 61.14 percent in March. Turkey’s official inflation rate has spiralled to nearly 70 percent in April, posing a huge challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose unconventional economic policies are often blamed for the economic turmoil. The consumer price index rose … Read more