News – Middle East

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — The Public Health Authority (Weqaya) announced on Saturday that no cases of monkeypox (mpox) clade 1, the strain responsible for the recent global public health emergency, have been detected in the Kingdom. Despite the worldwide surge in mpox cases, which led the World Health Organization …

A number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured Thursday, including children and women, in an Israeli shelling that targeted a residential apartment in Tal al-Zaatar in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported, quoting health sources, that a mother and her child were …

RIYADH — The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) invited the public and relevant stakeholders to participate in a public consultation on the Guidelines for Binding Common Rules (BCR) for Personal Data Transfer. The consultation is accessible through the National Competitiveness Center’s Public Consultation Platform (Istitlaa) and is open …

Six Palestinian citizens were martyred and others were injured, at dawn on Thursday, in the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the cities of Khan Yunis and Gaza. The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that three citizens were martyred and others were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a house in Sabra neighborhood, …

SANTO DOMINGO — Deputizing for Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Eng. Waleed El-Khereiji attended the inauguration ceremony of Dominican Republic President Luis Rodolfo Abinader in Santo Domingo. El-Khereiji conveyed congratulations from King Salman …

The Israeli occupation forces murdered more than 40,005 Palestinian civilians and injured more than 92,401 others (mostly children and women), since the beginning of the Israeli occupation’s genocide against the Gaza Strip in October 2023. In statements, medical sources in the Gaza Strip said that hospitals received, during the past …

Saudi Gazette report RABAT— Saudi Minister of Health Fahad Al-Jalajel met with Moroccan Minister of Health and Social Protection Khalid Ait Taleb during an official visit to Rabat. The meeting, which was attended by Saudi Ambassador to Morocco Dr. Sami Alsaleh and an official delegation from the ministry, focused on …

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (right) meets with France’s Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Stephane Sejourne in Beirut, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip. Ten months of cross-border violence between Hezbollah and Israeli forces has killed …

Several Palestinian were martyred and others were injured at dawn Friday in Israeli aerial and artillery strikes targeting various areas across the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian news agency (WAFA), medics recovered the bodies of five individuals and treated eight injuries after the Israeli occupation forces shelled an apartment in …

Saudi Gazette report NAIROBI, Kenya — Muslim World League (MWL) Secretary-General and Muslim Scholars Association Chairman Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa delivered the Friday sermon at Nairobi’s largest mosque, where tens of thousands of Kenyan Muslims gathered to listen. In his sermon, Dr. Al-Issa focused on the values and morals of …