Eurasia

Activists sprayed computers in red paint, broke windows, chained themselves to the premises and stuck banners across the buildings.

The Zionist regime has so far failed to respond to the European Union’s request to monitor the first Palestinian elections in 15 years, EURACTIV has learned, significantly reducing the chances of ensuring an adequate observer presence at this key milestone.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a videoconference on Thursday to look into the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue.

The World Bank approved a grant of $20 million to increase access to high-speed broadband services in selected Palestinian areas and enable the development of various e-government services in an effort to help the economy recover from the pandemic-induced shocks.

In February, Israel invited Norway to a vaccine collaboration, but the invite was rejected, newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) writes. Several opposition politicians reacted strongly to the news.

"China has decided to donate COVID-19 vaccines to Palestine," the country's Ambassador Geng Shuang told the UN Security Council during its monthly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Vietnam has welcomed recent progress towards the organization of an election in Palestine which will mark an important step to reunification and reconciliation at an online meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the situation in the Middle East, including Palestinian issue, on February 26.

A blast went off close to the Israeli embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Friday afternoon, damaging the windows of parked vehicles.

Russia is closely watching the nascent normalization of relations between Israel and several Arab countries.

China has reiterated its support to the Palestinian cause to restore the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

The government has no intention to recognize the Zionist regime and is determined to stand by the oppressed Palestinians as well as Kashmiris, according to Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Middle East and Religious Affairs.

'Freedom for Palestine - Stop Zionism,' reads slogan for German anti-Zionist activists protest in front of synagogue.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warns that his country will be left with no choice but to adopt “tit-for-tat” measures if Washington goes ahead with the plan to kill a key Cold War-era arms control treaty and deploys new missiles in Europe.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Saudi Arabia is not cooperating with the investigation into the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist who is suspected of being killed during a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month.

As the Syrian armed forces are preparing to launch a full-scale offensive to retake the northern province of Idlib, Russia says the Syrian troops have the full right to go after and hunt the terrorists out of the last stronghold of militants.

The presidents of Iran, Russia, and Turkey will hold their third round of tripartite summit in Iran next week in an attempt to find ways to end the ongoing crisis in Syria, Turkish state television says.

Moscow has warned Washington against making any "reckless" moves in Syria after the Russian Defense Ministry said the US, Britain and France are preparing to conduct a fresh aerial assault against Syria under the pretext of the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Damascus government.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova says the November elections in the United States are the reason behind the announcement of the next bunch of sanctions to be imposed by Washington against Moscow.

United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited Iran, Russia and Turkey to talks due to be held in Geneva next month on forming Syria's Constitutional Committee, a UN spokeswoman says.

Russia says drones used to attack its Hmeimim airbase in Syria are too sophisticated to have been assembled by terrorists and that experts believe terrorists use foreign help to launch the raids which have increased.

Russia says it was "deeply disappointed" by US President Donald Trump's move to re-impose unilateral sanctions on Tehran, vowing to make its utmost efforts to save a landmark nuclear agreement Iran signed with the P5+1 group of countries in 2015.

Iran, Russia and Turkey, as guarantor states for a peace process in Syria, have expressed their firm determination to counter any plot aimed at partitioning the Arab country.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired back at his US counterpart Donald Trump, who recently threatened Ankara with sanctions unless it freed a jailed American pastor.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey will stand its ground after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap sanctions on Ankara if it does not free an American pastor, broadcaster Haberturk reported on Sunday.

Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying to prove he’s a citizen of the Hindu-majority nation.

As Nakba Day comes closer, Palestinians and friends of Palestinian nation in Italy, set up a cultural week in Rome.

Thousands of Greeks turned up at a rally and march in central Athens on Tuesday to protest the recent US-led airstrikes against Syria.

“The defense council … has accepted that Israel made the best offer and gave a recommendation to the government to decide on acquiring” the Israeli planes, the defense council said in statement late Tuesday.

A Sweden-based NGO is planning to launch a new anti-siege sea voyage to the Gaza Strip in several months from now.

Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Berlin Central Station in the German capital today on Tuesday to condemn Trump’s announcement

Several high-profile artists in the UK who have joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel have condemned an Australian singer after he defended his recent music tour of Israel.

Israel has refused to grant an entry visa to a group of French politicians, who intended to visit jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, over their support for a global pro-Palestine campaign against the regime’s occupation and land grab policies.

In response to British Prime Minister Theresa May’s boastful remarks about the UK’s role in creating Israel, Palestine is planning to file a complaint against the UK for being behind the displacement of Palestinian people, a senior Palestinian official says.

For the first time, former British prime minister, Tony Blair has said he and other world leaders were wrong to give in to Israeli pressure to boycott Hamas after it won the Palestinian elections in 2006

Israel has impudently said it would continue to sell arms to Myanmar amid an ethnic cleansing by Myanmar army against Rohingya Muslims in the country, Haaretz admitted.

One speaker told the audience that Israel and Israelis should not be treated any differently to the Nazis or white South Africans during apartheid. Other speakers refused to refer to Israel by name, calling it only “the Zionist state”.