The Mayor of the French city of Lyon, Gregory Doucet, yesterday canceled a conference hosting French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri, to “ensure harmony” in the city. The conference entitled “Thirty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, a look at Palestine” was due to take place at Lyon’s City Hall…

A young Palestinian has died after being wounded in Silwan, while violent clashes erupted between Palestinian youths and the Israeli occupation forces that stormed the town of Shuafat in occupied Jerusalem. This occurred after a shooting in Jerusalem, resulting in the deaths of eight settlers. The Wadi Hilweh Information Centre…

Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, Ziyad Al-Nakhala, has condemned the Israeli aggression on Jenin refugee camp in the northern Occupied West Bank, which resulted in the death of nine people, including an elderly woman, on Thursday morning. “This is a day of jihad and a day of…

Senior legal experts in the Israeli security services warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday against transferring authority for the Unit for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) to far-right extremist Bezalel Smotrich, who is a minister in the Ministry of Security as well as Minister of Finance…

As many as 41 Kuwaiti lawmakers condemned, on Tuesday, the burning of a copy of the Holy Quran by Swedish-Danish right-wing extremist Stram Kurs Party leader, Rasmus Paludan, in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, and called to boycott all countries that do not respect Muslims' sanctities, Kuwaiti Al-Anbaa newspaper reported. The…

The European Union, on Monday, introduced new sanctions against Iran for a “brutal” crackdown on protests, but the bloc’s top diplomat said the country’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) cannot be listed as a terrorist group without a court decision, Reuters reports. Relations between the 27-nation EU and Tehran have deteriorated during…

An Iraqi court sentenced on Sunday the assistant director of Al-Rafidain Bank/Al-Khalidiya branch to 15 years in prison and a fine of $10 million over the embezzlement of millions of US dollars from the bank’s accounts. The Iraqi Federal Commission of Integrity (COI) said in a statement that the assistant…