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On a brisk morning in late August 1942, Wendell Willkie—a corporate lawyer, failed presidential candidate, and media darling—got onto an airplane for a trip around the world. Soon, he’d be holding court with kings, premiers, the shah, as well as soldiers and civilians across Africa and Asia. As the Axis…

RAMALLAH, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- A senior Palestinian official announced on Monday that the Palestinian Health Ministry recorded 611 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths in the Palestinian territories. Mai al-Kaila, Palestinian health minister, said in an emailed press statement that the health ministry also recorded 968 more recovered cases…

Home / Travel / In occupied West Bank, Palestinian bloggers see local tourism as defiance Hoping to allay the fears of Palestinians who avoid visiting remote sites, Malak Hasan and Bisan Alhajhasan founded “Ahlan Falasteen” - meaning “Hello Palestine” - a blog and Instagram page offering travel destinations and advice.…

BRUSSELS: The European Union warned Serbia and Kosovo on Monday that they could undermine their EU membership hopes by moving their Israeli embassies to Jerusalem, as US President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement about the change left officials in Belgrade and Pristina scrambling to limit the political fallout. In an unexpected…

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The United Arab Emirates betrayed the Islamic world and the Palestinians by reaching a deal towards normalising ties with Israel, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech. The Palestinians have fiercely opposed the normalisation as weakening traditional Arab refusal to form ties with Israel before the establishment…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. — AFP/Files TEHRAN: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader on Tuesday said  the United Arab Emirates, by signing an agreement to normalise relations with Tehran's arch-foe Israel, has betrayed the whole Muslim world."The UAE betrayed the world of Islam, the Arab nations, the region's countries,…

JERUSALEM: Palestinian Alaa Borqan preferred to tear down his own house in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem after a court ruled that it was constructed illegally and must be demolished. The 35-year-old was given two options: To destroy his four-bedroom home in the Jabal Mukaber neighborhood himself, or to let the city…

The West is in freefall. Liberal-democratic institutions have suffered a near-fatal blow in the United States; Europe, caught leaderless as the United States vacates this position, is in disarray. Three words have come to define this moment: I can't breathe. These devastating words -- spoken by George Floyd, Eric Garner and the legion of…

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he hoped the Israel-UAE deal can help realise a two-state solution with the Palestinians for peace in the Middle East.Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise ties in a landmark deal, only the third such accord the Jewish state has struck…