Defections boost Macron in French election race
Author: ReutersFri, 2017-03-24ID: 1490300833144176600PARIS: French presidential election frontrunner Emmanuel Macron saw his lead in the polls bolstered by news on Thursday that two members of the government were deserting the official Socialist Party contender to back the 39-year-old centrist.The defections included one major catch — Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, a Socialist Party grandee who has been […]
Marine Le Pen: No Grounds for Hostility Between Paris, Moscow
Moscow, March 24 (QNA) – Marine Le Pen, French presidential candidate and leader of National Front political party, sees no reason for the French authorities’ hostile attitude towards Russia. “I see no reasons that would justify the current hostile attitude of the French authorities towards Russia,” she was quoted by TASS news agency as saying […]
Car Bomb Explodes in Mogadishu
Mogadishu, March 24 (QNA) – A car bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Friday noon with no casualties or injuries reported so far. A car packed with explosives was detonated between around the heavily secured presidential palace in the capital. The restaurant is frequented by government officials, spokesman […]
Iraq FM Says Trump Pledged Support to Iraq in War on ISIS
Baghdad, March 24 (QNA) – Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said that U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated in their meeting last week in Washington the U.S. commitment to supporting Iraq in its war against terrorism and reconstructing the country. In a statement issued Friday, al-Jaafari said the two sides discussed the need for the United […]
Abbas Reiterates Commitment to Peace Based on Two-state Solution
Berlin, March 24 (QNA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he is committed to the option of achieving a just and comprehensive peace according to the two-state solution and based on the 1967 borders by ending the occupation and reaching a permanent peace agreement so that Palestine and Israel would live side by side separated […]
Human Rights Council Approves Myanmar Fact-finding Committee
Geneva, March 24 (QNA) – The U.N. Human Rights Council has approved the dispatching of a fact-finding committee to investigate the reports of wide-scale murder, rape and torture of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state in Myanmar at the hands of military and security forces. The 47-member council unanimously approved an EU resolution calling […]
Aboul-Gheit Stresses Importance of Two-state Solution
Cairo, March 24 (QNA) – Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit stressed the need to stick to the Arab-backed Palestinian stance of a two-state solution and the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, saying that the Arab Peace Initiative remains the most fitting way of handling the Palestinian issue. […]
Trump Urges Vote on Health Care Act Friday
Washington, March 24 (QNA) – US President Donald Trump is urging a vote in the House of Representatives on the American Health Care Act on Friday after the vote was postponed Thursday due to a lack of sufficient support to pass it. According to the Washington Post, he delivered an ultimatum: ‘pass the bill or […]
Two Killed, Three Injured in Ain El Helwi Shooting
Beirut, March 24 (QNA) – Exchanged shooting in Ain El-Helwi camp last night left behind a toll of two killed and three injured, among them a woman, National News Agency (NNA) reported on Friday. The security situation in the camp escalated on Thursday night after a personal dispute erupted between an element of the Fatah […]
Six Gunmen Killed in Chechnya
Moscow, March 24 (QNA) – members of an armed gang who attacked a unit of Russia’s National Guard in Chechnya have been killed, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee told TASS on Friday. A group of six unknown individuals carried out an armed attack on a facility of Rosgvardiya’s military unit in Chechnya’s Naursky district. During the […]
