RAMALLAH: The Palestinian president welcomed Thursday a United Nations General Assembly resolution criticising the US government’s controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.“This decision reaffirms once again that the just Palestinian cause enjoys the support of international ...

RAMALLAH: (APP) US President Donald Trump has invited Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to visit the White House "soon", the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said on Friday. During their first phone call since Trump's inauguration in January, the US president invited Abbas "to visit the ...

PARIS (APP) - The Palestinians may consider "reversing recognition" of Israel if Donald Trump moves the US embassy to Jerusalem, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said in an interview released by the French daily Le Figaro on Friday."I wrote to president(-elect) Trump to ask him not to do it. Not ...

UNITED NATIONS, United States (APP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told the UN General Assembly on Thursday that Israel's settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank was destroying any hope of a two-state solution.Abbas, who has been Palestinian president for 11 years, urged countries at ...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (APP) - A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday dismissed a claim by researchers that he worked as a Soviet agent in Damascus in the 1980s, calling it a smear intended to derail a Russian peace initiative.READ MORE: Israel approves hundreds ...

RAMALLAH: (APP) Palestinian leaders are seeking Arab League support for a complaint they intend to file against Britain for its 1917 Balfour Declaration backing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. "Almost a century has passed since 1917," Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said in an address ...

JERUSALEM: (APP) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Friday to offer condolences on the death of his brother, an Israeli official told AFP.Abbas' brother Omar died in Qatar Thursday, with the funeral taking place on Friday.He had been suffering from ...

CAIRO: (APP) Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi blasted Israel as a bastion of "fascism and racial discrimination" on Saturday at a meeting of foreign ministers to discuss a French Middle East peace initiative.The Arab ministers are expected to adopt a resolution on the plan to revive negotiations ...

UNITED NATIONS, United States, (APP): Hamas to hold public executions in Gaza The UN envoy for the Middle East expressed alarmed on Wednesday after Hamas authorities in the Gaza strip moved to hold public executions, and urged them to change course. Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council ...

JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Palestine and Israel to ease out their tensions in West Bank and Jerusalem for regional peace. John Kerry met with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Sunday and discussed the regional situation. Kerry urged both countries to move towards a two ...