Author: Steven Sahiounie

RIYADH: The unavailability of certain key data has led Fitch Ratings to withdraw from categorizing Lebanon, as the agency no longer has sufficient information to maintain its assessment of the nation. 

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A young man was Tuesday killed by Israeli occupation army gunfire from the town of Shuyoukh, northeast of Hebron. WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces stormed Ras Al-Aroud area, south of the town of Sa’ir, where confrontations broke out during which the occupation soldiers fired live bullets, rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs, and poisonous gas towards the citizens, which led to the killing of Ramez Muhammad Al-Halaika, 22, while dozens of civilians suffered from suffocation due to inhaling toxic gas. Earlier today, a Palestinian young man was killed by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron. The Ministry of…

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Iran renewed its condemnation of the repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian territory and on the territory of other countries in the region and called on the UN Security Council to take swift and decisive action to hold this rogue entity accountable. “First, the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the continued aggression of Israeli regime against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and other countries in the region,” IRNA news agency quoted Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, as saying in a UN Security Council session on Syria on Monday. Iravani added…

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Fourteen Palestinian factions signed an agreement to set up an “interim national reconciliation government” to govern the emergency situation that followed the Israeli occupation’s genocidal war against the Gaza Strip and the increased pressure and tensions across the West Bank. According to China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on Tuesday, Palestinian factions including Hamas and Fatah met in Beijing this week and committed to “reconciliation”. “The most prominent highlight is the agreement to form an interim national reconciliation government around the governance of post-war Gaza,” Wang said following the signing of the “Beijing Declaration” by the factions in the Chinese capital. Moreover, Wang…

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