RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister in the face of U.S. pressure to reform the Palestinian Authority as part of Washington's postwar vision for Gaza. But those plans face major obstacles, including strong opposition from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israel-Hamas war that is still grinding on with no end in sight. Mustafa was born in the West Bank town of Tulkarem in 1954 and earned a doctorate in business administration and economics from George Washington University. He has held senior positions at the World Bank and previously served as deputy prime minister and economy minister. Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war.
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March 14, 2024 18:37 UTC
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Abdoulaye Bathily, met today with the Municipal and Social Councils of the Warfalla tribes in the city of Bani Walid to discuss the city’s role in national reconciliation efforts. According to Abdulmajeed Al-Jamal, the director of the media office at the Bani Walid Municipality, Bathily engaged in consultations with the leaders of the Municipal Council and the Social Council of the Warfalla tribes regarding Bani Walid’s contribution to national reconciliation and ways to ensure free and transparent elections in Libya, ultimately aiming to end the phases of political division. Al-Jamal stated that this visit is part of the regular consultations Bathily conducts with various Libyan components and parties.
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March 14, 2024 18:16 UTC
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A woman's “illegal buying spree” armed a man with the high-powered firearms that he used to kill three Minnesota first responders during a standoff at a home where seven children were inside, federal authorities said Thursday. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A woman's “illegal buying spree” armed a man with the high-powered firearms that he used to kill three Minnesota first responders during a standoff at a home where seven children were inside, federal authorities said Thursday. Luger said Dyrdahl bought five weapons from two licensed dealers for Gooden, including those that killed the three first responders. Gooden refused to leave but said he was unarmed and that he had children inside. But just before 5:30 a.m., the bureau said, Gooden opened fire on officers inside without warning.
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March 14, 2024 16:40 UTC
Wilders took to X, formerly Twitter, to say that “I can only become premier if ALL parties in the coalition support that. Because the voice of millions of Dutch people will be heard!”Wilders' party holds 37 seats in the 150-seat lower house of the Dutch parliament. Polls since the election show that support for Wilders' party continues to grow. While the exact contours of a new coalition Cabinet remain unclear, Putters believes that the parties are now ready to hammer out a deal. “My expectation is that these parties will take the next step in the Cabinet formation,” Putters told reporters Tuesday night.
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March 14, 2024 16:13 UTC
MILAN (AP) — Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago perished during the journey, the humanitarian rescue group SOS Mediterranee said Thursday. The European charity’s ship Ocean Viking spotted the dinghy with 25 people on board Wednesday. Humanitarian organizations often rely on accounts of survivors when pulling together the numbers of dead and missing at sea, presumed to have died. The survivors said the boat departed Zawiya, Libya with about 85 people on board, including some women and at least one small child. Ocean Viking has been directed by Italian authorities to the port of Ancona, in the central Marche region, Creazzo said.
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March 14, 2024 15:48 UTC
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — An explosion during an indoor training exercise Wednesday sent 16 members of Southern California's Orange County Sheriff’s Department SWAT team to the hospital, with one person requiring surgery for a leg injury, the department said. The blast occurred shortly before 1 p.m. at the facility in a remote area of Irvine, said sheriff's Sgt. The most severe injury was a non-life-threatening leg wound that will require surgery, Gonzalez said. The two other wounded deputies won't require surgery, he said. The facility south of Los Angeles hosts firearms training and qualifications tests for the FBI and local law enforcement agencies, Eimiller said.
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March 14, 2024 15:16 UTC
Survivors aboard a deflating rubber dinghy rescued in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them a week ago perished during the journey, the humanitarian rescue group SOS Mediterranee has said. The European charity’s ship Ocean Viking spotted the dinghy with 25 people on board on Wednesday. SOS Mediterranee spokesman Francesco Creazzo said that the survivors were all men, 12 of them minors with two of those not yet teenagers. The survivors were from Senegal, Mali and Gambia, SOS Mediterranee said (Johanna de Tessieres/ SOS Mediterranee via AP)Humanitarian organisations often rely on accounts of survivors when pulling together the numbers of dead and missing at sea, presumed to have died. Ocean Viking has been directed by Italian authorities to the port of Ancona, in the central Marche region, Mr Creazzo said.
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March 14, 2024 15:04 UTC
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese high court ruled Thursday that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions. TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese high court ruled Thursday that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions. Five previous court decisions in various cities said Japan’s policy of denying same-sex marriage is either unconstitutional or nearly so. The court said the government’s lack of effort to implement legal marriage equality is not unconstitutional, but expressed hope for the parliament to enact a law for same-sex marriage. While Japan’s conservative government has been criticized as stonewalling diversity, recent surveys show a majority of Japanese back legalizing same-sex marriage.
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March 14, 2024 14:40 UTC
ROME, March 14 — As many as 60 people are feared to have drowned on a vessel carrying migrants across the Mediterranean from Libya, the operators of a charity rescue group said today. SOS Mediterranee said it rescued 25 people in a “very weak” condition in coordination with the Italian Coast Guard yesterday and that two unconscious people were flown to Sicily by helicopter. “The survivors departed from Zawiya, Libya, seven days before they were rescued,” SOS Mediterranee posted on the social media platform X. “Their engine broke after three days, leaving their boat lost (and) adrift without water and food for days. Survivors report that at least 60 people perished on the way, including women and at least one child,” it added.
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March 14, 2024 13:57 UTC
SOS Mediterranee spokesman Francesco Creazzo said that the survivors were all men, 12 of them minors with two of those not yet teenagers. The survivors were from Senegal, Mali and Gambia, SOS Mediterranee said (Johanna de Tessieres/ SOS Mediterranee via AP)Mr Creazzo said the survivors were traumatised and unable to give full accounts of what had transpired during the voyage. Humanitarian organisations often rely on accounts of survivors when pulling together the numbers of dead and missing at sea, presumed to have died. Survivors said the boat departed Zawiya in Libya with 75 people on board (Johanna de Tessieres/ SOS Mediteranee via AP)This was out of a total 279 deaths in the Mediterranean since January 1. The survivors said the boat departed Zawiya, Libya with 75 people on board, including some women and at least one small child.
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March 14, 2024 13:51 UTC
Sixty migrants feared drowned crossing Mediterranean from LibyaROME (Reuters) -As many as 60 people are feared to have drowned on a vessel carrying migrants across the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy or Malta, the operators of a charity rescue group said on Thursday. SOS Mediterranee said it rescued 25 people in a “very weak” condition in coordination with the Italian Coast Guard on Wednesday and that two unconscious people were flown to Sicily by helicopter. According to the U.N. migration agency (IOM), almost 2,500 migrants died or went missing attempting the crossing last year, and 226 since the start of 2024. “The survivors departed from Zawiya, Libya, seven days before they were rescued,” SOS Mediterranee posted on the social media platform X. “Their engine broke after three days, leaving their boat lost (and) adrift without water and food for days.
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March 14, 2024 13:50 UTC
MILAN (AP) —Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 50 people who departed Libya with them a week ago perished during the journey, the humanitarian rescue group SOS Mediterranee said Thursday. Creazzo said the survivors were traumatized and unable to give full accounts of what had transpired during the voyage. Humanitarian organizations often rely on accounts of survivors when pulling together the numbers of dead and missing at sea, presumed to have died. The U.N. International Organization for Migration says 227 people have died along the perilous central Mediterranean route this year through March 11, not counting the new reported missing and presumed dead. The survivors said the boat departed Zawiya, Libya with 75 people on board, including some women and at least one small child.
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March 14, 2024 13:40 UTC
The Libyan-Maltese Forum for Trade and Export will be held in Malta from 24-26 April. The revelation was made yesterday during a meeting between the Tripoli based Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohamed Hwej, and Maltese Ambassador Charles Saliba, at the Ministry’s Tripoli headquarters. During the meeting discussions took place on the current arrangements for holding the forum, to be held under the auspices of the Ministry of Economy and Trade, Trade Malta, and Malta Enterprise, with the participation of the Ministry of Economy and Trade, the General Authority for Exhibitions and the Libyan Export Promotion Centre (LEPC). Difficulties facing the business sector and business owners in both countries and ways to overcome them in coordination with the relevant authorities were also discussed. Call for the establishment of a business councilThe Minister also called for the establishment of a Libyan-Maltese Business Owners Council, which will facilitate procedures for the benefit of company owners and investors with the competent authorities and enhance trade and investment relations between the two countries.
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March 14, 2024 12:16 UTC
The meeting in Libya of the Minister of the Interior of the Italian government, Matteo Piantedosi, and the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Edmund Cirielli, with the general Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi it is "an important and courageous signal from the Italian government". The president of FederPetroli Italy, Michele Marseille, following the Libyan mission of the two government representatives, underlining: "There is a big step forward in bilateral relations between Italy and Libya which have been at a standstill for years." Our position, supported over the years, at the time compromised relations with an important Italian diplomat in Libya (now in another European location), considering 'FederPetroli Italia to be on the side of a criminal'. In just a few years, a change of direction, an important and courageous signal from the Italian government which strengthens the Federation's positions in foreign policy", added Marseille. Read also other news on Nova NewsClick here and receive updates on WhatsAppFollow us on the social channels of Nova News on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Telegram
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March 14, 2024 09:32 UTC
Keatinge, who was in Malta for workshops on sanctions, said he was impressed by the coordination and community in Malta on sanctions, which is a far cry to the impression many abroad have of Malta’s sanctions approach. Malta is one of those places that is guilty until it proves itself innocent. People are quick to judge Malta and Cyprus, but I can tell you that I’ve been to Cyprus and I’ve been to Malta and it’s completely different when it comes to sanctions,” Keatinge said. Despite the reputation abroad, Keatinge felt that Malta could actually teach other Member States on certain best practices regarding sanctions. “What we did after 2014 was we did a load of sanctions on Russia and then we thought ‘Oh, we’ve done sanctions on Russia.
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March 14, 2024 05:30 UTC