President Mahmoud Abbas hosted Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Samih Shukri in the presidential headquarters in Ramallah on Wednesday, according to a statement released by WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency.
European Union and U.S. envoys warned Bosnia's leaders on Wednesday that the country risked missing out on closer ties with the EU in the near term and losing 2 billion euros in support due to an impasse over reforms.
Bosnia hoped Brussels would consider its EU membership bid at its next ministerial council in mid-July, but without the reforms this may not happen.
A new position was added to the Cabinet - Vice Prime Minister for Border Affairs - it is former authorized representative of the Government in Batken region Zhenish Razakov.
Higher Education Minister, Sumayia Abu Kosha Tuesday proposed to ban armed political activities in the Sudanese universities .
In last April and May, several universities witnessed protests and clashes between students supporting armed groups in Darfur and the Tow Areas and those who are backing the ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
May government officials accused the armed groups of trying to export violence to the Sudanese universities through their sympathisers.
Un juez francés ha abierto un proceso de investigación contra un tío del presidente sirio, Bashar al Assad, por evasión de impuestos y blanqueo de dinero, según han informado este martes fuentes cercanas al caso.
Rifat al Assad, rival político de su sobrino y sospechoso de haber obtenido su fortuna de manera ilegal en Francia, ha vivido en el exilio desde 1980, cuando conspiró contra su hermano, Hafez al Assad, que fue presidente del país entre 1971 y 2000.
The government called on all citizens on Tuesday to “embrace the legitimate armed forces” and not to “surrender to panic,” declaring that it will maintain “full readiness” to follow up on the security developments after the unprecedented suicide bombings that rocked the border town of al-Qaa on Monday.
The European Union on Monday has welcomed the unilateral cessation of hostilities by the Sudanese government and called on the warring parties to move forward for peace in Sudan.
The spokeswoman for the EU’s foreign service, Catherine Ray, said the four-month unilateral truce announced earlier this month comes after a similar gesture by the alliance of rebel groups Sudan Revolutionary Front (SAF)in April 2016.
Legal experts believe that legal options are available before the Election Commission of Pakistan to disqualify the prime minister and members of his family if it really wanted to decide the petitions filed by the PPP and the PTI.
The Nation talked to senior jurists who opined that the election body could take action against those who conceal their assets under different sections of Representation of the People Act, 1976.
Newly appointed Second Finance Minister Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani Tuesday led the line-up of ministers and deputy ministers who took their oath of office, loyalty and secrecy before Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah.
The ceremony took place at the Bilik Singgahsana Kecil of Istana Negara at 11.30am.
Also present were Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and other cabinet ministers.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on Tuesday blamed Hizbullah and Iran for the protracting political vacuum in Lebanon, a day after the party accused Riyadh of blocking political solutions in the country.
“Hizbullah, with Iranian support, is to blame for the political vacuum in Lebanon seeing as it is obstructing any effort aimed at resolving the presidential void crisis,” said Jubeir at a joint press conference he held with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault.
The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday Albania's economic recovery should strengthen this year but warned it not to let government payment arrears grow and risk a repeat of the heavy borrowing when it came to power three years ago.
Reviewing Albania's 330 million euro ($365 million) 36-month programme signed in February 2014, an IMF team said they had reached a staff-level agreement with Albania after finding their economic programme was "broadly on track".
Kyrgyzstan doesn't fully carry out the work on dismantling the corruption system. This was announced today at a coordination meeting.
Participants noted that cases of corruption are kept at the normative level, in particular in the field of public procurement, urban planning. Not all measures to combat corruption are executed fully and promptly. The participants of the meeting noted that there is no proper control over the implementation of plans to counter corruption and bribery, and it also happens that they are just duplicated.
The Constitutional Court has called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to immediately sign the bill on a revision to the 2015 Regional Elections Law that was approved by the House of Representative earlier this month.
The signing of bill by the President is necessary so that the court can proceed with a judicial review submitted by groups of residents, said Constitutional Court chairman Arief Hidayat in Jakarta on Monday.
The Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC) has started preparing for local council elections in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip to be held on Oct. 8, CEC Chairman Hanna Nasser said on Monday.
Speaking at a news conference at the CEC offices in the West Bank city of al-Bireh, Nasser said that the commission would do everything necessary to “guarantee freedom of elections,” including the freedom to run as a candidate and to run a campaign.
A leading member in the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) Nafie Ali Nafie has resumed verbal attacks on the opposition groups, saying all their attempts to lead a popular uprising “intifada” have failed.
Nafie resigned from his post as presidential assistant and NCP deputy chairman in December 2013 after wide changes in the government.
In light of the recent Cabinet’s decision assigning the date for Local Council Elections on October 8th, 2016, the CEC Commissioners convened today at CEC premises in Ramallah and through videoconference with Gaza where they approved the Local Elections Timeline.
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