Beirut: Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met Saturday with US deputy special envoy for the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, in Beirut to discuss the latest developments in southern Lebanon. According to Qatar News Agency, the meeting addressed measures taken by the Lebanese army to implement UN Resolution 1701 and the security arrangements for halting hostilities, in coordination with the military

Gaza: Palestinian prisoner advocacy organizations revealed that Israeli occupation forces are detaining over 350 Palestinian children, including more than 100 held under administrative detention without trial. According to Qatar News Agency, a joint report was issued Saturday by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner Society, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, marking Palestinian Child’s Day. The

Mandalay: The United Nations called on the world today to stand in solidarity with earthquake-hit Myanmar, as the death toll rose to 3,354. During a visit to Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city and close to the epicenter of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake, Tom Fletcher, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, appealed to the international community for support. According to Qatar News Agency, Myanmar’s

Doha: Weather inshore tonight until 6:00 am on Sunday will be mild temperature with some clouds, the Department of Meteorology said in its daily weather report. Offshore, it will see some clouds and be hazy at times, the report added warning of strong wind and high sea. According to Qatar News Agency, wind inshore will be southeasterly to easterly 05

Swat Valley: An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale struck Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwestern Pakistan, earlier Saturday. According to Qatar News Agency, the National Seismic Monitoring Center in Pakistan reported that the epicenter of the earthquake was located in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northern Pakistan, at a depth of 64 kilometers. No injuries or

Rafah: The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates stated that a video published by an American newspaper clearly exposes the Israeli occupation forces’ deliberate execution of 15 ambulance and relief workers in Rafah on March 23. The footage, the Ministry noted, directly refutes the occupation’s claims that ambulances were struck by mistake due to a lack of visible emergency

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron reiterated, in a phone conversation on Saturday, the importance of restoring calm through the immediate ceasefire and getting humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. According to Qatar News Agency, in a statement, the Egyptian Presidency reported that both presidents stressed the need for the two-state solution as the

Gaza City: Six Palestinians were martyred and others were wounded Saturday in an Israeli drone attack that targeted a group of civilians in the Qizan Rashwan area, south of Khan Younis, Palestine’s News Agency (WAFA) reported. According to Qatar News Agency, WAFA added that the Israeli occupation’s artillery shelled Wadi Al Arais Street in the Al Zaytoun neighborhood, south of