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LONDON, Feb. 24 (YPA) - The United Arab Emirates is accelerating efforts to ease legal restrictions on gambling and online betting, signaling a strategic move to diversify its tourism-driven economy — despite tensions with its declared…

QUDS, Feb. 24 (YPA) - The foreign ministers of 18 nations, together with the secretaries-general of the League of Arab States and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, denounced recent measures by the Israeli occupation authorities to…

LONDON, Feb. 24 (YPA) - The British “Financial Times” newspaper has reported a significant surge in U.S. military build-up across the Middle East, noting the arrival of massive fighter jet reinforcements at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi…

OCCUPIED QUDS, Feb. 23 (YPA) - Israeli occupation authorities issued 23 new demolition notices on Monday, targeting residential and agricultural structures in the "Umm al-Shakhalib" area of Abu Dis, east of Quds (Jerusalem). The move…

TEHRAN, Feb. 23 (YPA) - Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesperson for the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, characterized the upcoming talks between Tehran and Washington this Thursday as a "true test" for President…

GAZA, Feb. 23 (YPA) -The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Monday that one person was killed and eight others were injured in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. In its dailyreport on casualties from the Israeli aggression, the…

WEST BANK, Feb. 23 (YPA) - The Higher Planning Council of Israeli occupation authorities will discuss plans on Wednesday to build 1,517 settlement units across the occupied West Bank, Hebrew media reported. The watchdog group Peace Now,…

NABLUS, Feb. 23  (YPA)  - Zionist settlers set fire to a mosque located between the towns of Sarra and Tell, west of Nablus, early Monday morning, and scrawled racist slogans on its walls. Palestinian sources said that the Zionist settlers…

RAMALLAH, Feb. 23 (YPA) - The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate on Sunday held Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the serious deterioration in the health of freed journalist and former detainee Mujahed Bani Mufleh after…

RAMALLAH, Feb. 23 (YPA) – Zionist settlers cut down 21 olive trees in the village of al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, early Monday morning. Palestinian sources reported that a number of settlers raided the "Sahl Marj Si'a" area, west of…