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The man, Suleiman Ayesh, was fatally shot in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in the central West Bank

Saudi Arabia has issued 500,000 work visas and 350,000 family visit visas to Yemenis since mid-2018, the Saudi Ambassador in Sanaa, Muhammad Saeed Al-Jaber, said yesterday. In a statement, Al-Jaber said the visas were issued to Yemenis “from all governorates in the country without exception.” “The Saudi move comes within the kingdom’s keenness to support […]

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Thursday – his first since the Russian invasion, Ukrainian media and a NATO official said. The Kyiv Independent newspaper published images of Stoltenberg in central Kyiv, in front of a memorial for fallen soldiers. The photographs showed Stoltenberg with his head down in front […]

NASA on Wednesday night denied claims by Ukrainian officials that a powerful flash in Kyiv’s skies resulted from one of its satellites falling to Earth. A NASA official told Al Arabiya English that it had one spacecraft in orbit, and it had still not re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. “NASA’s retired Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic […]

China plans to close airspace north of Taiwan next week, the self-ruled island’s defense ministry said on Wednesday, which could disrupt flights in the region amid rounds of intense military drills by Beijing. When asked about an earlier Reuters report on the airspace’s closing, Yan Yu-hsien, deputy chief of the general staff for intelligence from Taiwan’s defense […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday vowed his country’s enemies would “pay a price” following a barrage of rockets from Lebanon that was blamed on Palestinian groups. “We will strike our enemies and they will pay the price for any act of aggression,” Netanyahu said during a cabinet meeting, according to a short video […]

Israel’s military hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza early on Friday, in retaliation for rocket attacks it blamed on the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as tensions following police raids this week on the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem threatened to spiral out of control. Loud blasts rocked different areas of Gaza, as Israel said its jets […]

Israeli military say seven rockets launched from the Gaza Strip all exploded in midair

WASHINGTON: The US government has imposed sanctions on two Lebanese brothers accused of selling tainted fuel to Lebanon and engaging in corrupt practices that contributed to the breakdown of rule of law. Brian E. Nelson, the Treasury Department’s under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said during a press briefing on Wednesday that the US […]

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