Tashkent: The Shura Council, with a delegation led by Speaker Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim, is set to participate in the meetings of the 150th session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly and the 215th session of the Governing Council of the union. The five-day meeting will commence tomorrow in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. According to Qatar News Agency, the session’s agenda

Doha: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli raids on various areas in Syria. In a statement Thursday, the Council’s Secretary-General, Jassim Mohammed Al Budaiwi, underlined that these raids constitute a new episode in a series of attempts by the Israeli occupation forces to undermine and destabilize regional and international security, stressing

Gaza City: 19 Palestinians were martyred and more than 40 others were wounded as a result of Israeli occupation warplanes bombing a school sheltering displaced persons in the al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City. According to Qatar News Agency, local sources said that Israeli warplanes targeted the school with three missiles, noting that medical teams and civil defense personnel recovered

Yerevan: HE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi met Thursday with HE Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Vahan Kostanyan during his current visit to Armenia. Discussions during the meeting dealt with cooperation relations between the two countries and means to support and develop them, in addition to a number of

Riyadh: The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed the Kingdom’s strong condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli raids that targeted five areas in Syria. According to Qatar News Agency, in a statement Thursday, the Ministry reiterated the Kingdom’s categorical rejection of the Israeli occupation authorities’ attempts to threaten the security and stability of Syria and the region through their

Sofia: Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev discussed bilateral relations and regional developments with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Sofia Thursday. According to Qatar News Agency, the meeting addressed the situation in Gaza and the necessity to restore the ceasefire, resume the entry of humanitarian aid, and de-escalate the situation in the West Bank. The Jordanian King emphasized the significance of Bulgaria

Budapest: The Hungarian government has decided to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), shortly after the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Budapest. According to Qatar News Agency, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb¡n announced on Thursday that the decision to withdraw from the ICC stems from the belief that the court has become a political entity. This

Gaza City: The death toll from the Israeli bombing of a school housing displaced persons in Gaza City has risen to 31, with nearly 100 injured, most of them children and women. The Civil Defense in Gaza announced that the death toll from the Israeli bombing of Dar Al Arkam School in the Al Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City,