News – Middle East

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during the Friday Prayers and a commemoration ceremony of late Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in Tehran, Iran. Khamenei calls Iran’s missile attack on Israel ‘legal and legitimate’ Late Hezbollah chief Nasrallah eulogized by Iran’s leader Iran will neither rush nor delay confrontation …

TEHRAN — Iran’s missile strikes on Israel were “correct, logical, and lawful”, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a vast crowd that had gathered to hear him speak in Tehran on Friday. The country’s supreme leader described the attack as the “minimum punishment” for what he called Israel’s “astonishing crimes” while leading …

The Palestinian Ministry of Education in the Gaza Strip documented the martyrdom of 11,600 Palestinian school-age children, and the injury of thousands with injuries, physical disabilities and psychological trauma, during a year of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.The ministry said in a statement that the occupation deprived 650,000 male …

HE Minister of Finance Ali bin Ahmed Al-Kuwari chaired a joint meeting of GCC finance ministers and central bank governors and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, on Thursday.The State of Qatar’s delegation to the meeting was headed by HE Governor of Qatar Central Bank, Sheikh …

VIENNA — Thousands marched through central Vienna on Thursday evening to urge the country’s political parties not to join a coalition with the far-right FPÖ. The protest, which started at the University of Vienna and ended in front of the parliament building, was attended by around 25,000 people, according to …

Saudi Gazette report TORONTO — A delegation from the Federation of Saudi Chambers, represented by the Saudi-Canadian Business Council, which is currently visiting Canada, inaugurated a new phase in the history of Saudi-Canadian economic relations after nearly a six-year hiatus in trade visits between the two countries. The business delegation’s …

Saudi Gazette report TORONTO — The Federation of Saudi Chambers, represented by the Saudi-Canadian Business Council, announced the opening of the Council’s first office in Toronto, Canada, during a roundtable meeting organized by the Council, with wide participation from ministers, officials, and investors from both countries. The opening of the …

LOS ANGELES — Country music superstar Garth Brooks has been accused of sexual assault and battery in a lawsuit filed in California state court. The accuser, using the pseudonym “Jane Roe”, was working as a hairstylist and makeup artist for the Grammy-winning singer when he raped her, the lawsuit states. …

JERUSALEM — At least 18 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, the Palestinian health ministry said late on Thursday. The Palestinian Authority-run news agency Wafa said the air strike had hit a cafe in the Tulkarm refugee camp where …

BEIRUT — Israeli bombing caused large explosions just outside Beirut’s international airport during a further night of air strikes targeting Hezbollah in the city. The target was unclear but the airport borders Dahieh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in the capital. Plumes of smoke could be seen over the city as dawn broke …