Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, the UAE will host the first edition of the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities Forum on November 19-20 in recognition of the country’s leading role in promoting tolerance and interfaith dialogue.

The forum will host 450 guests including religious leaders, NGOs and heads of industry"...

Tayseer Khaled , PLO Executive Committee member , member of the Politbureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called on the Palestinian side to free himself from all restrictions of the Paris Economic Protocol, calling it a violation of international law and one of the tools of Israel’s annexation policy in the occupied Palestinian territories as imposing a joint customs envelope between the occupying state and the areas under its occupation, In a precedent that is the first of its kind"...

BEIT UR AL-FAUQA, West Bank (Reuters) - Tuning into the news at dawn on Wednesday, the extended family of Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, celebrated her victory in their home in the Israeli occupied West Bank.

The uncle of Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, shows her picture on a tablet, in Beit Ur Al-Fauqa, in the occupied West Bank November"...

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, November 06, 2018 (WAFA) – The Palestinian government decided on Tuesday to provide East Jerusalem hospitals with $12.5 million to compensate them for the funds the United States has decided to cut from the hospitals, said Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah.

“It is our national duty toward Jerusalem, its institutions and people, and to prevent attempts to bury its identity and the heritage of our holy city … the"...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday raised taxes paid by truck drivers who transport commodities through the Karm Abu Salem crossing to Gaza, the Private Transportation Association said.

Head of the Private Transportation Association in Gaza Nahed Shuhibar said that Abbas increased the levies by 30 shekels ($8). Drivers are already charged 1,200 ($325) to use the crossing.

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The Government of Sharjah won the “Sovereign Debt Finance Deal of the Year” award at the Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Awards Middle East for the successful issuance of an RMB 2 billion, or US$ 316 million, Panda Bond. The award was presented by the leading international media organisation GFC Media Group.

The award recognises that the issuance, completed in February 2018, represented the culmination of a lengthy and unfamiliar, and ultimately"...

Jerusalem, November 5, 2018 – A child born in the West Bank and Gaza today will be 55 percent as productive when she grows up as she could be if she enjoyed complete education and full health, according to the World Bank’s new Human Capital Index (HCI) released on October 2018.

The Palestinian economy has had several setbacks due to ongoing fragility and conflict. This negative impact could be mitigated through investments in human"...

AMMAN — A Palestinian delegation on Saturday paid a visit to Muwaqqar Industrial Estate and was briefed on Jordanian national industry.

The delegation included Nablus Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Omar Hashem, and members of the board of directors, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

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RAMALLAH, Saturday, November 03, 2018 (WAFA) – The Ambassador of India to Palestine, Anish Rajan, said that his country is carrying out projects exceeding $40 million in Palestine and that relations with Palestine have made remarkable progress over the past years.

In an exclusive interview with WAFA, Rajan said that India and Palestine have enjoyed close relations since India gained independence in the 1930s and was one of the 14 countries"...

According to statistics released, Wednesday, by the General Administration of Civil Status at the Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip, the Strip has been witnessing 14,566 new births, with an average of 158 births per day, during the third quarter of this year.

The Civil Status Offices in the Directorate of Internal Affairs in Gaza said in a statement that during the period extending from 1 July to 30 September, there were 5,250 new births; meanwhile,"...