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Beijing has demanded that Washington stops all contacts with Taipei “at once” The Taiwan issue is the “first red line” that should not be crossed in relations between China and the US, Beijing has told Washington. The warning from the Chinese Foreign Ministry came early on Thursday, hours after Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen met with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other lawmakers in California. “China firmly opposes and strongly condemns” the high-profile meeting that took place on American soil, the ministry said in a statement. “It seriously infringes upon China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and sends an egregiously wrong signal to the ‘Taiwan…

The Bureau of the United Nations General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People condemned in a statement the raid by Israeli occupation forces inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound/Al-Haram Al-Sharif Tuesday, which resulted in hundreds of Palestinian worshippers beaten, injured and detained while also causing damage to the building of the al-Qibli mosque. This violence is particularly egregious during a time of heightened religious sensitivity with the observance of Ramadan, Passover, and Easter, it said. “Israel’s illegal policies and practices have continued to entrench its illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territory it has occupied…

The landmark meeting sets a road for further cooperation between Iran and Saudi Arabia due to Chinese mediation, which in turn will extend regional cordiality and developments. A month after Iran and Saudi Arabia struck a deal to restore diplomatic relations under Chinese mediation, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, met in Beijing on Thursday for the first meeting between their two countries’ diplomats in seven years. During the meeting, both officials exchanged views on issues related to bilateral matters, in addition to discussing steps to reopen embassies and pursue the…

The Israeli occupation police chief is facing racism accusations over statements he made about Arabs and Palestinians during a phone call. The commissioner of the Israeli police, Kobi Shabtai, was accused of racism after saying that it was in the nature of Arabs to kill each other, said a record of his phone call published by Israeli media. The Israeli official was discussing oppressive security measures taken by the Israeli police to tackle “violence in Arab communities” with extremist Israeli Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli media said. “There is nothing to do. They kill each other. It is in the…

The United Nations Security Council has agreed to discuss the Israeli occupation forces’ raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque that took place on Wednesday dawn at the request of the UAE and China. The UN Council will hold a closed meeting on the Israeli occupation forces’ raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Al-Quds, which took place at dawn and saw the IOF terrorizing Palestinian worshippers. The meeting will be taking place at the request of the United Arab Emirates and China, a UN source told Russian news agency Sputnik on Wednesday. “As far as I know, close consultations have been requested for tomorrow morning.…

The Israeli occupation forces once again raid Al-Aqsa Mosque and assault the worshippers there amidst the holy month of Ramadan. The Israeli occupation forces once more raided on Wednesday night Al-Aqsa Mosque, marking the second day in a row for such a raid, assaulting the worshippers and the Palestinians stationed at the holy site as part of the religious rite of Itikaf, an Al Mayadeen correspondent reported Wednesday. The Israeli occupation forces brutally assaulted the Palestinians, using rubber bullets and smoke grenades against the unarmed worshippers, the correspondent added. The Israeli occupation forces chased down the Palestinian worshippers and assaulted them in the…

It is reported that the French president said that at a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping he was not going to threaten China with sanctions French President Emmanuel Macron said while visiting China that it was not in China’s interest to provide weapons to Moscow, Reuters reported on Wednesday, quoting Macron as saying. “China’s interest isn’t to have a lasting war,” Macron said, adding that should China send any arms to Russia, it “would be complicit in a breach of international law.” According to Agence France-Presse, the French president said that at a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping he was…

On Thursday, the Belarusian head of state will take part in the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has arrived on a working visit to Moscow, the BelTA news agency reported on Wednesday. “Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has arrived on a working visit to the Russian Federation,” the statement said. It was earlier reported that the Belarusian leader was to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Belarusian head of state will take part in the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today called for stopping “vile” attacks by Israeli occupation forces at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. “I condemn the vile acts against the first qibla of Muslims and call for the attacks to be stopped as soon as possible,” Erdogan stated while condemning the Israeli occupation forces’ raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque and expressed his “sadness and anger”. “Türkiye cannot remain silent in the face of attacks. Reaching out to Al-Aqsa Mosque and trampling on the sanctity of the Haram al-Sharif is our red line,” Erdogan said after an iftar dinner with retired people in the capital…

Israeli police Wednesday night stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem for the second consecutive night during Ramadan. Dozens of heavily-armed Israeli police barged their way into the al-Qibli prayer hall at the mosque compound, while nearly 20,000 worshippers were still performing the Ramadan Taraweeh night prayer. Police brutally assaulted Palestinian worshippers, beating them with clubs and targeting them with concussion grenades, tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets as a means to forcefully expel them from the Muslim holy site. Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed that a number of worshipers suffocated from tear gas and that its…