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S&P cuts Israel’s long-term credit ratings

Date: 2024-04-19 06:32:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:10667933

RAMALLAH, April 19 (MENA) - Ratings agency S&P Global on Thursday cut Israel’s long-term ratings to A-plus from AA-minus after the confrontation with Iran heightened last weekend and amid the already elevated geopolitical risks for Israel. The ....

Iranian state television: Nuclear facilities near Isfahan 'fully safe'

Date: 2024-04-19 05:52:23 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:10667908

TEHRAN, April 19 (MENA) - Iranian state television said nuclear facilities near Isfahan "fully safe" after spotting drones in the area early Friday morning, Alhurra news channel reported. Air defense batteries fired in several provinces over ....

US vetoes Palestine’s request for full UN membership

Date: 2024-04-18 23:03:11 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:81 - ID:10667813

NEW YORK, April 18 (MENA) – The Security Council rejected Palestine’s request for UN membership on Thursday, with the United States casting a veto. In a vote of 12 in favour to one against, with two abstentions, the Council did not adopt a draft ....

Egypt regrets UNSC's failure to issue resolution to enable Palestine to obtain full membership at UN

Date: 2024-04-18 22:55:13 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:10667810

CAIRO, April 18 (MENA) - Egypt expressed, in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, its profound regret over the failure of the Security Council, in light of the United States' use of the veto power, to issue a resolution ....

4 Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza’s Al-Shati refugee camp

Date: 2024-04-18 22:22:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:10667775

GAZA, April 18 (MENA) - At least four civilians were killed and others were injured this evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City. WAFA correspondent reported that at least four Palestinians ....

Jordanian FM urges international community to recognize Palestinian state

Date: 2024-04-18 21:13:24 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:10667593

NEW YORK/AMMAN, April 18 (MENA) – Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi urged the international community, on Thursday, to acknowledge and accept the State of Palestine as a full member of the ....

President Abbas’s representative: Granting Palestine full membership in the UN would alleviate historical injustices

Date: 2024-04-18 19:41:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:10667544

NEW YORK/RAMALLAH, April 18 (MENA) - Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said today before the UN Security Council that granting Palestine full membership in the United Nations would ....

Fatah denounces giving green light to Israel's ground operation in Rafah

Date: 2024-04-18 19:40:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:10667468

RAMALLAH, April 18 (MENA) - Member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council Osama al-Qawasmi denounced the move to give the green light to a ground operation in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip, in exchange for Israel not responding to Iran militarily. In a ....

Israeli forces continue to target areas in Gaza on day 195 of aggression

Date: 2024-04-18 16:59:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:10667308

GAZA, April 18 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation army continued to bomb the southern, southwestern and eastern areas of Gaza City on the 195th day of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Israel launched intense bombardment on the ....

UN chief warns of any action that could push region to the edge 2 last New York

Date: 2024-04-18 16:38:07 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10667449

The UN chief said Israel recently made a number of commitments to improve aid delivery – and there have been some examples of limited progress. "The impact is limited, and sometimes nil. The clearances increase, but there are continued obstacles to ....