Israel’s COVID-19 Cases Surpass 400,000

JERUSALEM, Dec 28 (NNN-MA’AN) – The number of COVID-19 cases in Israel reached 400,099 yesterday, with 2,084 new cases detected since Saturday afternoon, the state’s Ministry of Health said, yesterday. The death toll of the virus in Israel increased to 3,222 with 19 new fatalities, while the number of patients…

Landing Craft Capsizes In Strait Of Hormuz, Seven Missing: Media

TEHRAN, Dec 27 (NNN-ISNA) – A landing craft capsized in the Strait of Hormuz and seven people on board went missing. The vessel overturned, 25 miles (42.2 km) southeast of Iran’s Lark Island, in the Strait of Hormuz and efforts are underway to save the seven people, Esmail Makizadeh, deputy…

Hamas Condemns “Damaging Children’s Hospital In Israeli Airstrikes” On Gaza

GAZA, Dec 27 (NNN-WAFA) – The Islamic Hamas Movement condemned yesterday, Israeli aerial attacks, damaging a children’s hospital in Gaza city. Hazem Qassem, the spokesman of the Islamic movement that rules the besieged coastal enclave, said, the Israeli attack on Gaza “is a barbaric aggression.” “The airstrikes and bombings terrified…

Turkey’s Total COVID-19 Cases Hit 2,133,373; Oman To Begin Vaccination Campaign

CAIRO, Dec 27 (NNN-MENA) – Turkey’s health ministry reported 15,118 new cases on Saturday, bringing the tally in the country to 2,133,373. Meanwhile, Iran’s total cases increased to 1,194,963, with 5,760 new cases. The death toll in Turkey rose to 19,624 with 253 new deaths and total recoveries hit 1,994,034.…

Israeli Midnight Strikes In Syria Kill Six Fighters: Monitor

DAMASCUS, Dec 26 (NNN-SANA) – A total of six pro-government fighters were killed, during an Israeli strike that targeted positions in central Syria after midnight, a war monitor reported. The Israeli missile strike targeted defence factories, where a scientific research centre is located, in the city of Masyaf, in the…

Moroccan king and Israeli’s Netanyahu hold phone call following normalisation of relations

RABAT/JERUSALEM, Dec 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a telephone conversation during which the Israeli premier invited the king for a visit. The phone call comes three days after an Israeli delegation signed a US-sponsored normalisation agreement with Morocco in Rabat. “The…

Christmas celebrated under pandemic’s shadow

VATICAN CITY, Dec 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of millions acrossthe world celebrated pared-down Christmas festivities on Friday due tocoronavirus restrictions, as Pope Francis called for vaccines foreveryone, describing them as “glimmers of hope in this period ofdarkness and uncertainty”. The pandemic has claimed more than 1.7 million lives and is…

Iraqi Shiite Leader Warns Iran, U.S. Not To Involve Iraq In Their Conflict

BAGHDAD, Dec 26 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi prominent Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, warned Iran and the United States not to involve Iraq in their conflict. “Iraq has become a victim to the U.S.-Iranian conflict, and has been greatly affected, as if it is an arena for their conflicts,” al-Sadr said. “Therefore,…

Israel arrests Palestinian over West Bank settler murder

JERUSALEM, Dec 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Israel on Thursday arrested aPalestinian man in connection with the murder of a Jewish settler in theoccupied West Bank, in a case that raised tensions in the area. Esther Horgan, a 52-year-old mother of six and a French-Israeli dualnational, was found dead Monday in a…

Covid-19: Iran allocates funds to import vaccines; Kuwait starts national vaccination campaign

CAIRO, Dec 25 (NNN-Xinhua) — IRAN said that it has allocated funds to buy COVID-19 vaccines from abroad as the obstacles created by US sanctions have been removed. Meanwhile, Kuwait kicked off its national vaccination campaign. Iranian Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati said that Iran has allocated 200 million euros…
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