Israeli forces on Monday night ended a military blockade of the occupied West Bank hub of Ramallah, put in place following a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian Authority police officer on Israeli soldiers in the area. Director of the PA’s military liaison office, Jihad al-Jayyusi, told Ma’an that[…]
Brasilia has warned pregnant women not to take the risk of traveling to the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. Both Brazil and the IOC have welcomed a move by the WHO to declare a health emergency over the Zika virus. As the International Olympic Committee (IOC) welcomed measures taken to[…]
The Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will not be cancelled and the mosquito-borne virus will not affect the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. Speaking in Los Angeles on Monday, IOC President Thomas Bach expressed confidence that there will be good conditions for athletes and spectators at the Rio[…]
A 16 year-old student has been killed in Southern India while trying to take a selfie with a speeding train in the background. The boy was returning home after an excursion with friends when he was struck at a railway station outside Chennai. Witnesses say he was on the edge[…]
Clashes broke out on Sunday afternoon between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces in the village of Jabaa near Ramallah City in the West Bank after a checkpoint was closed, keeping hundreds of cars stranded. Witnesses said that that the Jabaa checkpoint, located at one of the main entrances to Ramallah,[…]
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe met on Sunday with the family of hunger striking prisoner Muhammad al-Qiq. Hamdallah said the Palestinian government was exerting all efforts to obtain the immediate and unconditional release of al-Qiq, who has[…]
The US has boosted its emergency food aid to Ethiopia by nearly $100m to combat one of the worst droughts in decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced on Sunday. The aid is urgently needed to head off a humanitarian disaster brought on by the El Nino climate phenomenon[…]
The number of Syrian refugees stranded on Jordan’s border and waiting for permission to enter has risen to 20 000, with 4 000 to 5 000 more arriving in the remote desert area every month, the head of the UN refugee agency in the kingdom said on Sunday. In recent[…]
NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities on Thursday demolished a mosque in the unrecognized Negev village of Rakhama, and issued a demolition order for an area in Nablus, home to 85 residents, local sources told Ma’an. In the Negev, Israeli forces demolished a mosque in the unrecognized village of Rakhama for[…]
The Bank of Japan has introduced negative interest rates in a bid to spur growth and prop up the world’s third-largest economy. Tokyo shares surged following the surprise announcement. The Bank of Japan said Friday that it had decided to impose a negative interest rate of 0.1 percent on current[…]
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