JERUSALEM: A far-right Israeli lawmaker, whose surging popularity helped propel former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back to power in last week’s general election, delivered a glowing tribute Thursday at a memorial event for an extremist rabbi assassinated in 1990.
RAMALLAH: Palestinians have expressed anger at the decision by Israeli and US authorities to build a permanent US Embassy complex in Jerusalem on land they say was illegally taken from them.
The project will comprise the mission building, offices, staff housing, parking lots and security buildings.
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s divided parliament failed on Thursday to elect a new president for the fifth time, with the post vacant since the mandate of Michel Aoun expired last month.
A new session will be held next Thursday, Nov. 17.
Independent Michel Moawad was the frontrunner in the 128-seat parliament with 44 votes on Thursday, still far short of the two-thirds majority — or 86 ballots — needed to win.
Parliament is split between supporters of the Hezbollah movement and its opponents, neither having a clear majority.
LONDON: The British, French, and American ambassadors to Yemen strongly condemned a Houthi attack targeting an oil tanker in Qena port, Shabwa on Thursday.
Yemen’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the Houthis launched a drone attack on the southern Qena port in Shabwa on Wednesday.
“By launching yet another assault on international shipping and the flow of fundamental necessities, the Houthis have once again demonstrated their abject failure to prioritize the Yemeni people,” Richard Oppenheim, Jean-Marie Safa, and Steven Fagin said.
BERLIN: The European Union will seek to adopt new sanctions against Iran next week over the Islamic republic’s deadly crackdown on protests, Germany’s foreign minister said Wednesday.
“We are working flat out on the next package of sanctions,” Annalena Baerbock said on Twitter. “We want to adopt it next week.”
“We won’t let up,” she added. “We stand with the men and women of Iran, not only today, but as long as it is necessary.”
EU foreign ministers are due to meet in Brussels on Monday.
