LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The 91-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch has officially divorced his fourth wife, American model Jerry Hall, after six years together, Hall's lawyer told AFP Thursday.

Lawyer Judy Bowler confirmed that Murdoch and Hall "remain good friends and wish each other the best for the future."
Murdoch, whose fortune is estimated by Forbes magazine at $17 billion, and Hall, were married in March 2016 in London.

The New York Times, which revealed the news of the divorce last June, citing two well-informed sources whose identities were not disclosed, stated that this step had no consequences for his international media empire, News Corp, given that Murdoch and Hall signed a prenuptial contract.

Murdoch, through his News Corp group, owns hundreds of media outlets, especially in the United States, where his companies control the conservative “Fox News” station, the “Wall Street Journal” economic newspaper, and the “New York Post” newspaper affiliated with the American right. He is also the owner of the newspapers "The Sun" and "The Times" of London and a number of newspapers in Australia.

Keith Rupert Murdoch's first marriage to Australian air hostess Patricia Booker lasted from 1956 to 1967, then he remained married for more than 30 years, until 1999, to British journalist Anna Mann, who, according to the press at the time, earned more than a billion dollars after their divorce.

Then, a few days later, the billionaire married a Chinese businesswoman, Wendy Deng, who graduated from Yale University, and stayed with her until their divorce in New York in 2013.

Murdoch has six children from his marriages, and his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, who is also an actress, is the mother of four children she gave birth to from the leader of the "Rolling Stones" Mick Jagger.

Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunez, Liverpool striker, apologized to the Reds fans for his expulsion during the Crystal Palace match, in the second round of the English Premier League.

Nunez published, on his account on the “Instagram” network, a picture of his exit from the match, after obtaining a red card, and wrote on it: “I apologize to all of Liverpool … I will be back later.”

Nunez assaulted Andersen, the Crystal Palace defender, without a ball, prompting the match referee to show the red card directly in his face.

This was Nunez's first match at Anfield, in a Liverpool shirt, after his move to the Reds this summer, from Benfica.

Nunez is the second player in Liverpool's history to be dismissed from his first Premier League match at Anfield, after England's Joe Cole against Arsenal in 2010.

Written by: Nabil Amr

While I was contemplating the choice of the subject of my article, I listened to the first news broadcast on the Israeli radio, which was formulated and read in the manner that we have now come the following...
“A joint force from all the Israeli security services managed to arrest one of the prominent activists in the new Palestinian formation... the lions' den.”
Since the start of the violent events that took place initially in the Jenin camp and spread to Nablus and the north, and expanded to include the center and the south, the term “the lions’ den” was widely circulated, to the extent that it overshadowed, by what was said about it, the reunion dialogues that took place in Algeria; What made this new formation the most important talk at the level of public opinion, even if it was said as a joke that it referred the PLO factions to retirement.
One of the characteristics deduced from this new formation is that it is a primary organizational embodiment of what Israel used to call the unruly wolves, who were carrying out impressive military operations but on their own, as they are not an extension of an organized traditional formation, and they are not united by belonging to a specific faction, which put the Israeli security services with all their arms in a perplexed As there are no specific references to be contacted or talked with to address and contain the phenomenon. What added to the Israeli bewilderment, and the inability of its octopus apparatus to herald a decisive achievement in this regard, is that what were called runaway wolves have evolved into an organized formation founded on an idea. The security and political vacuum in the West Bank and Jerusalem constituted a favorable incubator that provided him with popularity unavailable to any traditional faction.
An incubator like this scares Israel; As it is an active catalyst for the development of formation and multiply its effectiveness, even through imitation and simulation.
The vacuum produced an intermittent state of war of varying intensity between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The Israeli invasions continue and produce a horrific abuse in the lives of the Palestinians. Major cities like Nablus are under siege, and a large camp like Shuafat is inside a tight cordon that makes entry and exit a torment from which no one escapes. And the place that is not besieged and whose entrances and exits are not closed throughout the West Bank; Day and night raids are capable of turning life there into a continuous hell.
Such a situation produces a reaction that makes the Israeli endeavor to eradicate it a kind of running after a mirage, and this is what many of Israel's generals, intellectuals, and public opinion makers have acknowledged, who do not stop reminding the political leadership that continuing to rule another people will not result in anything other than this.
The Israeli inability to end or contain the phenomenon is justified by an excuse worse than guilt. The government, which is subject to harsh criticism for failure and negligence, blames the Palestinian Authority, which does not carry out its “duty” in the context of security coordination, and does not stop saying that it is an authority that has lost control, even though the loss of authority is the simplest justification. Its existence is of the making of Israel itself, which left no way to humiliate the authority and make it lose its prestige in front of its citizens without doing it, and the last thing released in this matter was that the Israeli government sent a strongly worded letter of rebuke to the Palestinian Authority just for the visit of its Prime Minister, Muhammad Shtayyeh, to a funeral home in which there were “terrorists.” !
Israel does not deny its impotence, and the factions profess its neutrality in the current war. Some of them are satisfied with blessing the operations without adopting them. The Authority is caught between the two parts of the millstone, as it is not ready to develop its security performance in a way that satisfies Israel, and in return it multiplies the discontent of its people, nor is it immune from paying the material and moral prices resulting from the Israeli abuse of it and its people.
A situation like this, Israel recognizes what results from it, and what was called the runaway wolves yesterday has become today called the lions' den, and instead of Israel absorbing the decades-old lesson, which is the age of the Palestinian rejection of the occupation and all the approved formulas to perpetuate it, including naive bribes, it continues to pour oil On fire to increase its ignition or to condense its latent embers under the ashes.
The secret word in the Israeli impotence is revealed by a phrase whose adherents in Israel are increasing every day... How long will we continue to rule another people?!

In agreement with the "Middle East"

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Representatives of ministries and non-governmental institutions unanimously agreed on the need for an integrated plan between ministries and institutions to ensure employment and decent work without discrimination, work to empower civil society organizations, and increase their knowledge of employment policies in order to defend the labor and economic rights of women , Networking and coordinating work with official frameworks, and recommended the need for social care for people with disabilities, empowering institutions and associations, and organizing monthly workshops in cooperation with relevant ministries to introduce and raise awareness of their role in support and empowerment.

This came during a symposium organized by the Center for Democracy and Workers' Rights , on "employment policies and decent work in the city of Al-Bireh, with the participation of representatives of the Council of Ministers, and the ministries of Labor, Women's Affairs, Finance, Public Works and Housing, National Economy, and the Palestinian Employment Fund, and a number Among the civil and women’s grassroots institutions from the governorates of Hebron, Jericho and the Jordan Valley, as part of the project “Gender Equality in the Economic Field: Our Right and Our Priority”, which is implemented by the Center in partnership with the Italian institutions COSPE and EducAid, and the Palestinian Working Women Association for Development, with funding from the European Union.

Karen Metz, project manager at the Center for Democracy and Workers' Rights, highlighted the importance of the project: "Gender Equality in the Economic Field: Our Right and Our Priority," which focuses on enabling civil society organizations to contribute to promoting gender equality in Palestine, especially women's economic rights.

Metz said: "Achieving progress in the employment of women, especially women with disabilities, is one of the biggest economic, social and human rights challenges in Palestine, taking into consideration that the percentage of women's participation in the labor market during the year 2021 did not exceed 17.2% compared to 73.6% for men in the West Bank." And that only 2% of women with disabilities participate in the labor market. She added, "Half of the female graduates who hold an intermediate diploma or above suffer from unemployment, and herein lies the importance of this symposium in order to improve the institutions' interventions to improve women's employment opportunities, and promote economic growth and decent work for all."

In the first session, the participants discussed employment policies and the ministries' vision on how to implement them. The representative of the Ministry of Women's Affairs, Elham Sami, confirmed the ministry's endeavor to integrate and promote gender equality at all sectors and levels based on human rights principles.

She said, "The ministry's role includes ensuring the evaluation of the current reality, through which needs and priorities are identified, national and strategic planning, participation and networking," pointing to the most important challenges facing the ministry in operation, especially tax and marketing policies, policies related to standards and standards, and the difficulty of accessing resources and information.

In turn, the Director General of the General Department of Labor Policies at the Ministry of Labor, Azmi Al-Hajj, spoke about the impact of the occupation and its violations and its continued confiscation of natural and human resources and its impact on employment. He said: "The Ministry will work with relevant institutions and through the national strategy for employment to develop labor market programs and policies, Increasing the pace of application of the minimum wage, and working to establish a zero-interest sustainability fund for small projects.

For her part, the representative of the Palestinian Fund for Employment, Enas Qubbaj, said: "The fund works to implement general employment policies, financing services and temporary employment. It also works to provide a set of trainings for women on economic feasibility, marketing and market study."

While the representative of people with disabilities, activist Nermeen Kumi, presented, in the second axis of the symposium, a working paper on the challenges and obstacles facing them, saying: "One degree of disability is preferred over another, and discrimination against women with disabilities is doubled, due to the limited opportunities and services."

Comey stressed the need to place the needs of people with disabilities on the priority list of civil organizations, governmental and private institutions, and to integrate them in all sectors through an integrated and comprehensive plan.

As for the third session of the symposium, the participating women presented a set of challenges they face in their work, represented by the problems of opening accounts for associations, institutions and cooperatives, the imposition of exorbitant fees and financial requirements for the establishment of cooperatives, as well as the absence of actual inclusion of persons with disabilities.

Paris (AFP) - In arid regions , grazing can be "beneficial in relatively cold climates locally rich in biodiversity" but "largely detrimental in hotter regions with poor biodiversity", according to a study conducted on five continents. calling for local solutions.

One of the most important aspects of this study, which was jointly conducted by the National Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, the French Center for Scientific Research and the University of Alicante in Spain, is that it provides a global view of the impact of pet grazing in arid regions, where more than a billion people depend directly on raising livestock for their livelihood.

The findings of the study, published in the journal Science, could contribute to "the development of more sustainable grazing management" aimed at "mitigating the effects of climate change and desertification," as stated in a statement by the National Institute for Agricultural Research and the Environment.

This work provides a picture of the impact of grazing in arid regions (where there is little rain) in 26 countries.

"We selected about 100 sites divided into three or four plots, which led to the identification of 326 areas in total, where grazing pressure was different (from low to high)," Nicola Gross, one of the study participants from the National Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research, told AFP. .

"We have developed standardized protocols to assess the effects of grazing pressure on soil fertility, carbon storage, erosion protection and forage production," he added.

The results of the study showed that grazing is "generally beneficial in arid regions with relatively cool climates, such as the steppes of Mongolia or Patagonia, and in ecosystems that show high animal and plant biodiversity, such as the African savannah and the Mediterranean thicket," according to the statement.

The diversity of plants and herbivorous mammals in these areas enhances the provision of basic tasks such as the production of fodder for livestock or the storage of carbon and soil fertility, while limiting soil erosion.

Otherwise, the institute pointed out, "the effects of grazing become detrimental to a large extent in the more arid, hot and biodiversity-poor regions, as is the case in some semi-desert regions near the coast, such as Namibia, Australia or Mexico."

"In these hot, arid regions, where there is less vegetation, the fertilization effect of grazing (associated with herd droppings) is less because it evaporates faster. It does not enhance biodiversity and may exacerbate erosion," Gross explained.

"The way we manage ecosystems locally will help make them more or less resilient to climate change," the researcher explained.

It is therefore necessary to favor "local solutions that take into account the entire ecosystem, agricultural practice, soil nature, warming and biodiversity".

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Tuesday, the Israeli Occupation Court in "Ofer" sentenced the prisoner, Salim Al-Ja'beh , from Jerusalem, to an actual prison term of 30 months, and a fine of 85,000 shekels.

The prisoner Al-Ja'beh was arrested on the 4th of October 2021, and was subjected to a harsh and long interrogation, and he is today in "Ramon" prison. As mentioned by the captive club.

It is noteworthy that the prisoner Al-Ja'beh is a former prisoner who spent 21 years in the occupation prisons. He is considered one of the leaders of the prisoner movement. He is married and the father of two children.

Nairobi (AFP) - Kenya, rich in wildlife, beaches and agricultural lands, is an economic engine for the East African region, despite the pandemic and unprecedented drought in forty years.

Here are five points about this country located between the Great Lakes region and the Indian Ocean.

Kenya gained its independence in 1963 after eight years of rebellion against British colonial rule. Jomo Kenyatta became the country's first president and was replaced after his death in 1978 by Daniel arap Moi.

In 2002, after 11 years of abandoning the one-party system, and in the first democratic transfer of power, the opposition Mwai Kibaki won the presidential elections.

But in 2007, announcing his re-election in a disputed ballot led to unprecedented ethnic political violence that left more than 1,100 people dead. In 2008, a national unity government was formed headed by Raila Odinga, the current presidential candidate.

Odinga was defeated in the 2013 presidential election by Jomo Kenyatta's son, Uhuru, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for his alleged role in the 2007-2008 post-election violence.

In 2017, the Supreme Court annulled the presidential elections due to "irregularities," a precedent in Africa. Uhuru Kenyatta was elected in a new ballot, which was boycotted by his opponent.

And in 2018, the two men forged a surprising alliance at the expense of vice president and presidential candidate William Ruto.

The country has about fifty parks and nature reserves that attracted 1.5 million visitors in 2021, including more than 30,000 giraffes, lions, elephants, rhinos, buffaloes and leopards.

Environmental activist Wangari Maathai is considered one of the most famous ambassadors of this biodiversity, and in 2004 she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on tree planting in particular.

Kenya has also been called the "cradle of humanity".

Also, the Rift Valley, which stretches from Tanzania through Ethiopia to Kenya, has been an arena for major fossil discoveries. In the Turkana region, human remains dating back about six million years were also found.

Kenya is one of the most vibrant economies in East Africa and is keen to take care of its image as a regional hub.

Her image is atypical in Africa. Although its natural resources are relatively few, it is considered an economic engine and enjoys a rich service sector.

Agriculture is also one of its pillars (more than 22% of GDP) and the main source of exports (tea, flowers and coffee).

And after it fell, affected by the pandemic, by 0.3% in 2020, the Kenyan economy began to recover in 2021. However, fuel and food prices rose sharply, especially the prices of corn flour, which is a basic material in the country, which sparked frustration in this country that suffers from rampant corruption. In 2021, Kenya ranked 128th out of 180 countries and territories in Transparency International's Corruption Index.

Inequality is evident in Kenya, where golf courses and slums side by side and where the minimum monthly wage is Sh15,120 (€124). According to the non-governmental organization Oxfam, the wealth of the two richest men in Kenya is greater than the income of 30 percent of the population, or about 16.5 million people.

According to official figures, most of the population of about 50 million are young and Christian.

Of the more than 40 ethnic groups living in the country, the Kikuyu are the largest in numbers, ahead of the Luhya, Kalenjin, and Liu.

Kenya is one of the countries that produces champions in the middle and long distances, such as Eliud Kipchoge and Faith Kipyegon.

Sprinter Ferdinand Umagnela has also made a name for himself in the world. Umanyala has the third best time this year in the 100m race, with 9.85 seconds, which he set last May.

Omanyala holds the African record of 9.77 seconds since last September, and is the eighth fastest runner in history, behind four Americans and three Jamaicans.

Omaniyala became the first runner from Kenya, which is distinguished by long-distance and marathon runners, to reach the semi-finals of the 100-meter race at the Olympic Games, specifically in the Tokyo 2021 edition.

But the country, known to have a large number of its athletes doping, was about to be excluded from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics before it passed an anti-doping law to avoid that.

On August 7, 1998, an attack targeting the US Embassy in Nairobi killed 213 people and injured five thousand others. Al Qaeda has adopted it.

After the Kenyan army entered Somalia in 2011 to fight the extremist Islamist movement Al-Shabaab, attacks multiplied, including an attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi in 2013 and then on Garissa University in 2015, killing 67 and 148 people, respectively.

In 2019, 21 people were killed in an attack on the Dusit hotel complex in Nairobi.

Since then, the attacks have become more sporadic and concentrated in the east of the country.

ATHENS (AFP) - A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck central Greece early Sunday, with no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The Athens National Observatory stated that the underwater earthquake occurred at 1:02 local time (22:02 GMT) at a depth of 12.7 km in the Gulf of Corinth, about 100 km west of Athens.

The tremor was felt in the capital as well as in the Peloponnese.

Greece is exposed to earthquakes on a regular basis because it is located on a number of geological fault lines.

Two people died in Samos in October 2020 as a result of a seven-magnitude earthquake in the Aegean Sea, which also killed 114 people in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir.

Gaza - by Al-Quds Sports Correspondent and Ahmed Al-Masharawi - The sports family, in the presence of sports, official and legal personalities, at the invitation of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, honored Al-Bureij Services Club, which was crowned with the title of the Premier Handball League - a mobile tournament for the 2022/2023 season, in the main club hall in Al-Bureij refugee camp, under the auspices of Assistant Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports Abdel Salam Haniyeh, with the participation of Jaber Ayyash, Acting Council’s Acting Secretary, Nabil Awaja, Director General of the Sports Unit in the Council, Adnan Issa, President of the Club, Jamal Abu Youssef, President of the Handball Federation, Ayman Dweik, President of Al-Bureij Municipality, and Hatem Qandil, Chairman of the People’s Committee. For the refugees in the camp, in addition to many of the leaders and dignitaries of the camp, the celebrated team, the families of the camp, the families of the players and the fans of the game.

On behalf of the Council, Ayyash congratulated Al-Bureij on the occasion of winning the league title, wished the club to achieve more championships, and stressed that the Supreme Council will remain a supporter of sports through the support provided by Assistant Secretary-General Abdel Salam Haniyeh, and thanked the Football Federation for its efforts to develop the game and organize tournaments.

Ayyash indicated that the next week will witness the signing of an agreement to start developing the wedding hall at Khadamat Al-Bureij Club at a value of $2,500. In his speech, Issa praised the council’s guests and Abdel Salam Haniyeh for the support they provide for sports, and expressed his pride in what the club’s champions have achieved in various games, and emphasized that The club will maintain its supremacy and top the podiums. Abu Youssef, President of the Union, Ayman Dweik, Head of Municipality, and Hatem Qandil, Chairman of the People's Committee in Al-Bureij Camp, gave speeches in which they praised Al-Bureij Services Club, its championships, and what they presented on the coronation platforms.

The Kurds begin their tasks

Coach Hussam Al-Kurd, former player of the Rafah services team and Al-Ahly Palestinian team, started his training with Al-Awda Club, in preparation for the third-division competitions. It is the third training experience for the Kurds, and he previously led Al-Qadisiyah and Al-Maghazi services in the past two seasons, in addition to his work as a coach for the second team of Rafah Services and led them to reach the semi-finals of the Tokyo 2019 Championship, in addition to his work as an assistant coach in the Premier League with the people of Gaza two years ago, accompanied by Captain Ashraf Al-Gharabawi. The third-division competitions are scheduled to start on December 9 in the central and southern branches, and Gaza and the North. Al-Kurd said that the team hopes to return to compete for the promotion ticket to the second division, from which the team was relegated in the 2018/2019 season, before its participation in the third division was frozen last season after it finished last at the end of the 2020/2021 season, to return to participate in the tournament after being frozen for a season. Full based tournament system.

Beach media

The Business Facilitation Council of the Beach Services Club decided to assign journalist Ahmed Hassouna to manage the media file of the club during the coming period. The assignment decision came during a session held by the Board of Directors to discuss many matters related to the club, including the media file to present a high level that conveys the image of progress and sophistication of the Marine Club system to public opinion. Imad Al-Tatari, Chairman of the Board of Directors, confirmed that the media department, represented by the journalist Hassouna, is the only official entity that represents the club in news and statements related to sports teams and special activities, and what is less than that is considered unofficial, explaining that the activation of the media department comes within the framework of the work methodology followed by the club’s management during the period According to proper planning to provide a distinctive image of the Beach Services Club. Referred to as the Beach Club, it competes in the first division football league of games, sports, cultural and community activities.

Nunchaku Championship for Orphans

The player Ahmed Al-Haddad achieved the first nunchaku championship for orphans of its kind, which was organized by the Palestinian Nunchaku Federation, with the participation of orphan students of different ages in their institute, and the player Ibrahim O Awad came in second place, leaving the third place for the player Suleiman Dalloul. The tournament included strong competitions among the participants, during which sportsmanship and competition prevailed. Jamal Al-Aqili, head of the federation and founder of the game in the Gaza Strip, said that the championship showed new competencies and young faces who have a great future in the nunchaku game, which is a modern martial art because it helps improve children's involuntary reactions, control of hands and other skills. The tournament began with a performance by the players, and at the end the winners were crowned.

 رام الله- “القدس” دوت كوم- أفاد نادي الأسير، اليوم الأحد، بأن الأسير الغضنفر أبو عطوان (28 عامًا) من الخليل، يواصل إضرابه المفتوح عن الطعام رفضًا لاعتقاله الإداريّ لليوم الـ11 على التوالي، حيث يقبع في زنازين سجن “ريمون”.

وقال نادي الأسير، في بيان له، إنّ الأسير أبو عطوان معتقل منذ شهر أكتوبر/ تشرين الأول 2020، وهو أسير سابق تعرض للاعتقال عدة مرات وذلك منذ عام 2013، وخلال عام 2019 خاض إضرابًا عن الطعام رفضًا لاعتقاله الإداريّ، وهو من بين مجموعة من الأسرى نفّذوا منذ مطلع العام الجاري إضرابات عن الطعام رفضًا لاعتقالهم الإداريّ، غالبيتهم علقوا إضرابهم بعد اتفاق يقضي بتحديد سقف اعتقالهم الإداريّ.

من الجدير ذكره أن سلطات الاحتلال تنتهج سياسة الاعتقال الإداريّ تاريخيًا، وتستخدمها على نطاق واسع بحقّ الفلسطينيين، تحت ذريعة وجود “ملف سرّي” وبدعم من المحاكم العسكرية الصورية، حيث تستهدف عبرها الفاعلين من أبناء الشعب الفلسطيني، سياسيًا، واجتماعيًا، وثقافيًا، في محاولة لتقويض أي حالة فاعلة فلسطينيًا.

وبلغ عدد الأسرى الإداريين حتى نهاية شهر نيسان/ إبريل 2021 قرابة الـ430، غالبيتهم يقبعون في سجون: عوفر، ومجدو، والنقب.

وأضاف نادي الأسير، أنه وفقا للمتابعة، فإن مخابرات الاحتلال أصدرت منذ مطلع العام الجاري وحتى نهاية شهر نيسان، قرابة الـ400 أمر اعتقال إداريّ بين أوامر جديدة وأوامر تجديد، علما أن غالبية الأسرى الإداريين هم أسرى سابقون أمضوا سنوات في سجون الاحتلال الإسرائيلي، حيث تؤكد المعطيات الراهنة أن أعداد الأسرى الإداريين في تصاعد، لا سيما مع استمرار المواجهة الحالية، وما يرافقها من عمليات اعتقال ممنهجة.

Gaza - Ahmed Al-Masharawi - Khadamat Al-Bureij Club - the most prominent club crowned with titles - achieved the title of the Sector Basketball League, by defeating its traditional rivals, Khadamat Al-Maghazi, with a score of 68-53, in the final match - the second leg in the Golden Square, "Playoff", at Al-Shaheed Hall Abu Youssef Al-Najjar, in the presence of a crowd crowded with the basketball stands and outside it.

Celebrations prevailed in the hall and over the stands after the referee announced the final whistle, and the fans entered the grounds of the hall, carrying the players and the coach on their shoulders, and parading them around the sides of the stadium, chanting slogans of victory, and the names of the players, and continued north to the club’s headquarters, where the cries of joy continued until the dawn hours.

The first quarter was characterized by caution and inclination on the defensive, which was reflected in the performance of the two teams, and the two teams relied on three-pointers from outside the area, so that Ahmed Weshah opened the scoring for Al-Bureij, followed by Eid Al-Shaer with a free throw, and Al-Maghazi responded through Musa Abu Ghazal, so that the match flared up with the movements of Eid Al-Shaer from Al-Bureij. , Ibrahim Abu Rahal, and Al-Maghazi Khalil Mahdi, to end in favor of Al-Bureij with a score of 11-8.

In the second quarter, fun, excitement and clubbing emerged, and Al-Maghazi advanced, with a score of 17-10, but Al-Maghazi emerged through his star Rayan Rayan and Abu Ghazal, and Al-Bureij responded by Rami Al-Jamal, who tipped the balance of his team, before Al-Maghazi Abu Ghazal returned and scored most of his team’s points, relying on Penetration skill and free throws.

In the third quarter, the fun and excitement remained present, and he scored. Abu Rahal advanced, Abu Ghazal responded with a free throw, and Rayan with a double, so that Al-Maghazi widened the difference, but Taha Jabr narrowed the difference to Al-Bureij with a three-pointer, and Ahmed Weshah scored many points, to owe this quarter to Al-Bureij a hard lead. With a score of 17-15.

In the last quarter, Al-Bureij was more focused and the better party, and the pillars of Al-Bureij were eliminated by personal mistakes, Musa Musa, Moataz Khreis, and Mahdi, and the back of Al-Maghazi was revealed, to score Abu Rahal and put his team in front with a three-pointer that inflamed the crowd’s enthusiasm, to end with Al-Bureij leading 30-13, And winning overall 53/68.

Referee: Basil Kron, Saeed Diyazadeh, Tamer Qeshta, Jad Agha recorder, Muhammad Al-Aloul, Mikati 24 Ahmed Zorob.

Written by: Vida Masha'ar - Editor-in-Chief of "Al-Sanara" newspaper - Nazareth.
We are facing many pests and viruses that we had to strengthen immunity to deal with..
At the head of these stubborn viruses is the family of viruses of various wars that the world is witnessing or threatening today, and the most terrifying of them is the nuclear war from which there is no victor... but its viruses are trying to spread.. so how can global leaders gain immunity against the threat of using these destructive weapons?!
Washington knows very well that there are four giants in the world, because in addition to America and Russia, there are China and India. It is required to find a vaccine to enhance immunity in order to stop the festival of nuclear weapons.
In our society there is still a dangerous old-new war, a war of violent crimes. To find a solution to strengthen immunity and to eliminate this dangerous scourge? There is no fairness or justice, especially with regard to women, as they are weak, despite their steadfastness!
In addition, here it is necessary to recognize the responsibility of the citizen who does not recognize any responsibility... and believes that he has no party to what is happening... If we do not rise up as individuals and groups against violence, then we will not have a rise or any reason for anyone to pity us...
It is also required to strengthen immunity against the pandemic of false promises, as the elections approach, so is there a quick and strong immunity serum against the confusion that may afflict us from the severity of false promises?
O scientists of the world, hurry up to discover a vaccine to raise immunity against what is happening and to give doses to those responsible to escape from the destruction...

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The latest editorial of the Knight of the Press
About the Shefaram massacre.
Yesterday coincided with the anniversary of the martyrdom of the victims of the terrorist massacre in Shfaram, about which the knight of the Arab press, Lutfi Masha’ar, the founder of “Al-Sanara” newspaper, wrote his last word after various editorials in which he wrote patriotic positions over 23 years through a press statement that established the foundations of a free and patriotic press in our society... "Hook" does not depend only on itself, was born free and remained free...

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Give me some clarification...
* Netanyahu, 89 days before the elections... presents an economic program in which the economic situation can be pulled out of a state of deterioration and replaced by a comfortable life...
Netanyahu says I am responsible... I am the prime minister...
Question: How? Knowing that the entire world is suffering from economic decline and the region is part of it?

* After the capture of the jihadist Bassam al-Saadi, a state of alert prevailed in the south along the Gaza border, and then an Israeli bombardment of the Strip, and thousands of residents became prisoners in the prison of a state that considers itself the strongest...because of one prisoner...

Ramallah - “Al-Quds” dot com - Quds Bank announced that it achieved annual net profits for the year 2022, the highest in the bank’s history, with a growth rate of 45.5% compared to the declared profits for the same period of the year 2021

This came according to the financial data that was disclosed on the Palestine Stock Exchange, where it indicated that the bank’s net profit recorded 20.90 million dollars from last year, compared to 14.36 million dollars from the year 2021, while the total income increased during the year 2022 by 16.89 percent. %, which is equivalent to $85.16 million compared to $72.86 million in 2021, while the total assets amounted to $1.452 billion, and the total liabilities amounted to $1.294 billion, while the total property rights amounted to about $157 million in the year 2022, after If it was $137 million in the year 2021, an increase of 14.41%, noting that the paid-up capital increased from $96,433 million in the year 2021 to $100 million in this year, an increase of 3.7%, and the data also indicates that the net facilities provided by Quds Bank for its clients reached 932.22 million dollars, while the total customer deposits recorded 1.166 billion dollars in the year 2022

In light of the strong financial results achieved, the Board of Directors recommended to the General Assembly of the Bank's shareholders the distribution of cash dividends of 10% after obtaining the necessary approvals.

Commenting on these results, Akram Abdel Latif Jarab, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Quds Bank, said: “We are pleased to continue achieving good financial results, which demonstrated the strength and soundness of our strategic plans, and our ability to deal with the economic challenges that Palestine is going through with great flexibility, as the year 2022 was a continuation.” For the achievements of Quds Bank, which strengthened our banking position.

Grab also confirmed that the bank and with the end of the year 2022, and with our adoption of an ambitious strategic growth plan, we hope to continue to achieve sustainable growth of shareholders' equity and to continue recording strong profits in the year 2023 and beyond.

Jarab expressed his thanks and appreciation to the shareholders and the bank's customers for their constant trust and loyalty. He also thanked the bank's employees at all administrative and functional levels for their efforts in achieving these distinguished results.

For his part, Salah Hadmi, CEO of Quds Bank, said: “The year 2022 is a tragic year that resulted in achieving the highest net profit in the bank’s history, amounting to $20.90 million. Providing and expanding our services with unprecedented speed and dynamism, and then the cooperation of existing expertise that seeks to achieve success.

Hadmi indicated that these strong results confirm the bank's success in adopting a proactive approach, the flexibility of its business model, and its ability to seize unique opportunities. He stressed that the bank's strategic priorities focus on continuing to achieve successes in the context of seeking to enhance growth in light of the difficult economic environment at the present time.

It is noteworthy that in the year 2022, Quds Bank was honored by Bank of New York Mellon (BNY), because Quds Bank was the most active in passing transfers using Straight Through Processing (STP) technology. The bank was also able to obtain the award for the most active bank in Palestine in the field of execution International trade operations, according to the standards of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the International Union of Arab Bankers awarded Quds Bank the award for the best bank in the field of social responsibility in Palestine for the year 2022.

Written by: Hamada Pharaoh

We sympathize with the people of Ukraine. We do not accept occupation, nor a military solution to settle differences or conflicts or achieve interests between countries.

We sympathize with the people of Ukraine not only because of the Russian invasion and what it left of effects, destruction, devastation, and heavy losses for the Ukrainian and Russian sides, and its reflection on the global economy, the energy and food components, and the costly costs for the peoples.

We sympathize with the people of Ukraine against their president and government and the control of the American Zionist current in the management of the Ukrainian state, and the use of their influence to harm the Russian-Ukrainian nationalism as part of the people of Ukraine, the practice of discrimination against them, and the involvement of Russia in the Ukrainian internal problems, and this is what happened and was achieved.

Russia aims, through its invasion of Ukraine, to achieve two goals, one of which is local and the other is international:

First: Its sympathy with the Russian-Ukrainian nationalists who have been subjected to discrimination and harassment, and an agreement was previously reached in September 2015 in the city of Minsk, the capital of Belarus, Ukraine’s neighbor, under Russian auspices, which guarantees the achievement of autonomy for the regions of eastern Ukraine, which have a Russian majority, and the preservation of their language, nationality and self-rule Within the framework of a unified Ukrainian state, similar to Kurdistan in Iraq, and many European countries, Canada and others, but Washington instigated against the agreement after it succeeded in making a Ukrainian political coup, until President Vladimir Bliznsky assumed power, and thus they presented the argument and Moscow’s rush towards its decision to invade Ukraine from In order to end the injustice, discrimination and racist behavior of Ukrainian Russians.

Second: Russia is working to cancel the results of the Cold War, the defeat of the Soviet Union in 1990, and the US unipolar domination of the international political scene.

So the battle in Ukraine has international dimensions and results that are not limited to Ukraine’s borders, which explains the volume of British and European aid provided to it, and that is why Moscow took the initiative, before its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with China on February 14, 2022, i.e. ten years ago. Days of the invasion, which appears to have been carried out with prior agreement with China, and Russia’s attempt to obtain previously unqualified Iranian planes is nothing but to make its battle in Ukraine an international dimension and a multiple partnership, due to its prior realization that Ukraine’s motives and programmed provocations, and the cancellation of the Minsk agreement that included giving the regions Eastern self-rule, this was done with planned American motives and incitement.

The United States, which has encroached on many peoples of the earth, and its forces have previously occupied 58 countries in the world from all continents, and fully adopts the Israeli expansionist colonial project politically, militarily, in intelligence and economically, despite the colony’s occupation of the lands of three Arab countries: Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, and pleads sympathy for the people of Ukraine provides its outrageous Zionist government, which supports the Israeli colony and is hostile to the Palestinian people, provides it with the most powerful and modern advanced weapons, and the flow of its billions to Kiev and provides it with reasons for strength and steadfastness to prevent an honorable agreement with Moscow.

Therefore, we sympathize with the people of Ukraine, with the same value that we sympathized with the suffering of the Jews in Europe during the days of German Nazism, Italian fascism, and Russian tsarism, even though they practice today, through their Israeli project and colony, persecution, oppression, and crimes against the Palestinian people, as the Nazis, fascists, and Caesars did to them and against them.

Jerusalem - Media of the Olympic Committee/ The delegation of the Muay Thai Federation participated in the Martial Arts Championship, which took place in the city of Jounieh, Lebanon, with the participation of more than 320 players, representing 13 countries.

The delegation of the Palestinian Federation was represented by 14 players from the diaspora, under the supervision of coaches Yasser Daher and Abd al-Wahhab Musa, Mustafa Mabrouki, head of the coaches’ committee in the diaspora, and Salim al-Khatib, head of the Referees Committee.

During their competition in various categories, the players won 12 medals, with 9 golds and 3 silvers.

Ahmed Zaidani, Vice President of the Federation, praised the technical level presented by the players during their competitions, thanking the referees and coaches for their efforts during this participation.

Zidani indicated that this participation comes within the federation's plan to develop and engage players in the diaspora on the Lebanese arena.

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Sunday, the Palestinian police referred a citizen who opened fire yesterday, Saturday, in the center of Hebron , while the police in Tulkarem arrested a citizen and his son on suspicion of opening fire during the celebration of high school results, and causing critical injuries to a citizen.

The media spokesman for the police, Colonel Louay Arziqat, stated that the police and security services arrested a citizen and his son at dawn today, on suspicion of shooting in celebration of high school results, and causing critical injuries to a citizen in Tulkarm.

He added that the police in Hebron referred this morning, the citizen who opened fire in the middle of the street yesterday in the city of Hebron, to the Public Prosecution to take legal action against him, indicating that the piece that was seized in his possession, which is of the type M16.

Written by: Ali Habibullah

Let us first emphasize that what is called the right and the extreme right versus the left in Israel is a differentiation that takes place within Zionism and not outside it, and Zionism with its colonial structure is the antithesis of our existence as Arabs, under which our citizenship can only be completed by confronting it. This must remain settled, at least for the national movement movement at home.

However, this Israeli partisan national consensus on the Zionism and Judaism of the state should not negate the need for our attention to the form of political transformations within or under the Zionist-Israeli map, and we mean in terms of the spread of the fascism of the religious right in it. The results of the recent elections show us the extent to which Israeli society has gradually accepted the "populist" and fascist ideology that Ben Gvir and Smotrich hold, for example, when they won 14 seats.

Populism has always been a phenomenon related to democratic systems, and while Israel is in its essence Zionist and has a democratic character, the populism of Ben Gvir and Smotrich is a matter pertaining to the Zionist political map itself, because the state is democratic for its Jews first, so the populism of the religious right does not concern the Arabs as much as it does the Jews. As for the fascism of the religious right, it is related to the Palestinian Arab citizens in the country in terms of the escalation of the fascist Zionist tone towards them.

The results of the recent elections are not a victory for the right, but rather a resolution of a form of the right within the right itself. The right, with all its components, has been disobedient to Netanyahu in recent years, which prevented the latter from forming a stable government, which led to five elections in less than four years. Today, he has become a majority in favor of Netanyahu, which will enable him to form a government without having to subjugate the entire right in it.

Otherwise, the high voter turnout in the Israeli-Jewish community in the recent elections in an unprecedented way in recent decades, which raised the percentage of votes required by the decision-making ratio this time, revealed the form of state Zionism that has become more compatible with its right. The results, with a high vote rate, did not only bring Ben Gvir and Smotrich and the spread of their fascism, but also dropped the Meretz party from the map of parliamentary political representation in the Knesset, as well as the decline of the Labor Party, which was barely able to pass the electoral threshold by four seats. Meretz and Labor are the two parties that are considered the last strongholds of the "left" within the Zionist political map in the country.

The most important thing these results say are two things, the first: The language of Zionism, represented by the fascist right, has become more clear and reconciled with its structure that built the Jewish state historically. The second: These results tell Mansour Abbas and his party's approach quite simply: You can change and become mentally authoritarian and nothing more. Actually, that is not possible in such a form of the right-wing of the upcoming executive power.

What about Arab parties?

The elections ended, while the National Democratic Gathering was outside the Knesset, for the first time since the birth of the party and its representation in the Knesset in 1996. The assembly, led by Sami Abu Shehadeh, received more than 139,000 votes, a result that did not allow the party to cross the threshold, but it was prevented Defeat the assembly and attempt to overthrow it and remove it from the political arena. As the assembly, which was forced to run in the elections alone, surprised everyone with its ability to achieve this popular rally around it with a limited period of time and modest organizational and financial resources.

However, the results of the Arab elections were closed to the National Democratic Assembly alone, after each of the United List - the Southern Islamic Movement - led by Mansour Abbas managed to win 5 seats by obtaining more than 190,000 votes. Likewise, the Front / Tibi coalition list won nearly 179,000 votes, giving it 5 seats as well, leaving the National Assembly alone outside the circle of parliamentary representation.

The strength of the United List - the Southern Islamic Movement - increased by an additional seat despite its problematic participation in the previous government coalition for the first time, and despite all the political and security practices of the Bennett-Lapid government towards our people in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem. The front has also relatively maintained its strength in alliance with Tibi, despite our Arab society's dissatisfaction with it and its leaders, who stand at the top of its electoral list.

That the Unified List was able to increase the strength of its representation, as well as the Front, which increased its representation this time in the Knesset with an additional seat also in rotation with Tibi, indicates the stability of the voting blocs of both the Unified List and the Front. Indeed, the strength of the voting bloc of the Unified List has increased this time. Al-Muwahhidah was able to unexpectedly get almost double the votes it got in the 24 elections in the Negev, which indicates that Al-Muwahhidah, as well as the Front, have fixed voting blocs linked to groups that have distinct social features.

Al-Muwahidha has become the line that represents the Bedouin Arab segment in the south and north of the country (Bedouins of the Negev and Bedouins of the North), while the front is still the closest to certain circles in the Galilee and “mixed” cities, which explains to us the stability of voting blocs with identity-social surveys, regardless of About the political form presented by both lists, and this is not available to the National Democratic Assembly, despite the mass rally around it in the recent elections. This is due to the structure of the Tagammu’ Party and its political identity since its establishment as a national movement representing all components of society, regardless of their social and cultural diversity.

The most important thing that the results of the recent elections refer to, whether in the Jewish-Israeli society or our Arab society, is that we live in a stage in which the “political” crisis is expressed with social concerns, as the principles (principles) of the party are no longer sufficient to form its followers, but rather become The strength of the party requires the formation of a common social structure for all who represent it. As for the National Democratic Assembly, the party was able to prevent its defeat, but its winning the battle does not end with the results of the last elections, by obtaining 139,000 votes. This is the assembly exam in the next stage. About "Arab 48"

Written by: Sarah Talib Al-Suhail
How quickly the days pass us by, and they engraved in our feelings and our souls memories that we do not forget, even if we overlook them for some time, but they remain present in us, so when we look back to our past or an accident occurs, we quickly recall it.

A few days ago, I read the news of the death of the Palestinian activist, Fatima Barnawi, in a hospital in Cairo, and if I had mercy on her, I would relive with her pure soul the meanings of my childhood and how I met the deceased on the London plane back to Amman. She began to tell me the story of her and her husband's struggle for Palestine, and how they were imprisoned and prevented from having children after they got out of prison because of their old age. I stood for her in the plane out of respect while she was sitting next to me, and my tears flowed and I said to her: Am I in a dream to sit next to a great woman like you? She was very happy with me and told me, like you, she was very good for future generations.

Her sitting next to me was like a dream, so I used to hear about female heroes, but now I know one of them.

I kept in touch with her, and I used to receive from her the story of her struggle while I was a young girl who was not polluted by the days and did not destroy her mind with the obsessions of the media, which with the passage of time made the Palestinian issue a secondary, marginalized issue.

My feelings at that time were very innocent - I grew up in a family where the mother told us about Palestine and the rights of its people, and a father who instilled in us Arab nationalism, love of the weak and support for the people of truth.

Fatima Barnawi was telling the details of her journey with the Palestinian struggle, so I felt as if I was in front of a story of real heroism to support a homeland in which a person sacrifices his life to restore a homeland that was forcibly stolen.

The deceased continues her story, and if my strong feelings at that time agreed with respect, appreciation, and love for the meanings of sacrifice and redemption.

At the end of the flight, I stayed in Amman, and Fatima continued to the West Bank, but she surprised me with a phone call, and we exchanged contacts for some time, until each one of us was preoccupied with her own circumstances, and the phone numbers were lost, and the memories of heroism, struggle, and childhood remained alive inside me.

The martyr of the struggle, Fatima, is the first female prisoner in the history of the Palestinian revolution, as she was arrested on October 19, 1967. She has the first to engage in commando work since the start of the contemporary Palestinian revolution in 1965, and she is the first Palestinian girl to be arrested by the Israeli occupation forces.

The late woman was born in the city of Jerusalem to a struggling family. Her journey of struggle began at the age of nine, when she moved with her mother and family from Jerusalem to a refugee camp near Amman. And her father, Muhammad Ali Barnawi, fought in the Palestine Revolution of 1936, accompanied by Haj Amin al-Husseini, so he remained in Palestine.

Her mother and sister were arrested following the execution of the commando operation, so they learned early on the bitterness of the occupation prison and experienced the feelings of loss and deprivation of the family.

Fatima Bernawi and her sister continued their struggle against the usurper occupier. She was arrested following a commando operation and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, she spent only ten years in prison due to the intervention of the late President Muhammad Anwar Sadat with the Israeli authorities in 1977.

The deceased contributed to the establishment of Palestinian security after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994. The Palestinian Women Police was established after her return to the homeland, and she held the rank of colonel. President Mahmoud Abbas awarded her the Military Star of Honor, in appreciation of her pioneering struggle role and sacrifices for her country and people.

And Fatima, in my estimation, did not die, but rather remains alive with the story of her struggle, her struggle, and her sacrifices for the liberation of her homeland, and every citizen whose land is occupied should be in a continuous struggle like Fatima to liberate the land, the homeland, honor, and honor. They, led by Fatima, are heroes who deserve all our respect and appreciation.
About "Jordanian Opinion"

Tehran - (AFP) - The Iranian Ministry of Security (Intelligence) announced Saturday the arrest of a Swede on suspicion of "espionage", without providing clarifications about his identity or the date of his arrest, while Stockholm confirmed that the case dates back to months ago and had previously been revealed.

The Iranian announcement came in light of the tense relations between Tehran and Stockholm, against the backdrop of a life imprisonment sentence issued in Sweden against former Iranian official Hamid Nuri for his supposed role in the executions of Iranian dissidents in 1988.

The Ministry of Security said in a statement on its website that it had "identified and arrested a citizen of the Kingdom of Sweden for espionage."

It indicated that the suspect entered the territory of the Islamic Republic "months ago after the arrest of another European spy, and his mission was to obtain information" about the latter, without additional details.

The Swedish Foreign Ministry confirmed to AFP in May that the Iranian authorities had "recently" arrested a Swede in his thirties.

Today, the ministry confirmed, in response to a question by France Presse, that the Iranian statement was due to "a previously known issue that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on," stressing that it is the same issue that it had previously revealed, and is not related to a new arrest.

The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence reported that the suspect had visited Israel, the Islamic Republic's arch regional enemy, more than once before entering Iranian territory.

It announced that he had made "suspicious contacts" during his "previous visits to Iran," and that his arrest was carried out "by order of the judicial authority while he was leaving" the country.

On July 14, a Swedish court sentenced Nuri, 61, to life imprisonment after his trial for "crimes against international law", which is the term used by Swedish justice to denote crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as "murder".

Tehran then condemned the verdict, saying it was "unacceptable" and "unacceptable" and described as "political".

It also announced the recall of its ambassador to Sweden for "consultations" in response to the ruling.

The trial of Nouri, a former official in the Iranian judiciary, came against the background of his supposed role in the mass executions of a large number of opposition prisoners during the 1980s.

This was the first time that an Iranian official was tried in connection with the executions that mainly affected individuals in the "People's Mujahedin Organization", which Tehran considers "terrorist", in connection with attacks in Iran carried out at that time by the organization that was allied with Saddam Hussein's regime, with the end of war between the two countries.

Nuri's trial began in Stockholm in August 2021, which led to strained relations between Sweden and Iran and raised fears of repercussions that might affect Western prisoners in Iran, especially the Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmad Reza Jalali, who has been sentenced to death since 2017.

(AFP) International football stars continue to flock to the Qatari capital, Doha, to participate in the first World Cup finals in the Middle East and an Arab country. After the arrival of the stars of the French and Argentine national teams on Wednesday, their German and Spanish counterparts landed on Thursday, amid an enthusiastic reception by fans from all over the world.
In the wake of the arrival of the 2018 World Champions led by star Kylian Mbappe, and "Albiceleste" with his legend Lionel Messi on Wednesday, the international teams participating in the Qatar World Cup continued to flock to Hamad International Airport and their camps in Doha.
International fans await the arrival of Belgium and its star Eden Hazard, Croatia and its playmaker Luka Modric, who is expected on Friday, as well as Portugal and its star Cristiano Ronaldo, who will play their last preparatory match against Nigeria in Lisbon on Thursday, while Brazil and its star Neymar will be the last to arrive on Saturday at the end of its preparatory camp in Turin, Italy.
The delegation of the German national team, which achieved a hard-won victory over its Omani counterpart (1-0), arrived Wednesday in its last preparatory match, Thursday noon, to stay in Al-Ruwais, in the Zulal health resort, at the northern tip of the Gulf peninsula.
As for Spain, which faces Jordan in Amman on Thursday evening before heading to Qatar on Thursday night into Friday, it is preparing for a very difficult match against Germany in the second round of Group E competitions on November 27.
Waiting for that, and in the shadow of the skyscrapers of Doha, where the pictures of the main stars of the tournament are displayed, fans flock from all over the world to attend this great global event, the first in the Arab world, which is surrounded by many non-sporting problems: the human rights of migrant workers, and the issue of LGBT discrimination or even the environmental impact of heroism.
Dozens of fans, most of them residents of Doha from Lebanon, France or India, equipped with flags, shirts, trumpets and drums, accompanied the French team to camp at the end of Wednesday, six days before they faced their Australian counterpart in the first round.
The French enter the tournament with many doubts about their chances of defending the title after a series of injuries that hit their ranks, the latest of which was German Leipzig striker Christopher Nkunku (knee), and he was replaced by Randal Kolo Mwani, who joined his ranks on Thursday morning.
France is facing strong competition for the title from Brazil, ranked first in the world, and its neighbor, Argentina, which crushed its host, the UAE, by five goals on Wednesday, including a double by Angel Di Maria and a goal by Messi, expanding the number of consecutive matches without losing to 36, and is one match away from the record number of matches. Without losing, which is 37, which Italy achieved in 2021.
There is also the Netherlands, runner-up three times (1974, 1978, 2010) and the eternal contender for the world title.
Its coach, Louis van Gaal, who is known for his frankness, did not avoid the differences that accompanied the World Cup in Qatar. He said Wednesday that fans who do not want to come to Qatar or even follow the 2022 World Cup are "right" if that is their conviction.
For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron considered the politicization of sports "a very bad idea."
"These questions must be asked when you are given the honor of hosting," he said on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Summit in Bangkok, rejecting calls to boycott the world championship.
Some fans said they were hesitant to travel to Qatar, between the non-sporting controversies and the cost of the several thousand euros for a month's trip.
However, excitement is beginning to build around the main World Cup fan zone, located in Al Bidda Park, in central Doha which is set to officially open on Saturday, on the eve of the opening match between hosts Qatar and Ecuador.
Some of the volunteers present at one of the entrances to the area Wednesday, during a test event in the evening, confirmed that it "was full."
The first scenes of jubilation also appeared with the arrival of players from England, France and Argentina with many fans, some from the Indian subcontinent, who competed over drums, songs, shirts and flags.
Indians in Qatar expressed their dissatisfaction with media reports and posts on social media that talked about "fake fans" in Doha.
"Absolutely not," fans told AFP, considering the doubt "very insulting and frustrating".
In a video broadcast by the Qatar News Agency, Nasser al-Khater, CEO of the World Cup, denied "baseless" and "defamatory" rumors that Qatar paid foreign workers to play the role of "fake fans".
He also confirmed that "3.1 million tickets have been sold," that is, all available tickets, and promised an "extraordinary tournament."

بلغ منتخبنا الوطني للشباب، مساء اليوم الأحد، نصف نهائي كأس العرب للشباب المقامة بالسعودية، بفوزه المستحق على الأردن بركلات الجزاء بواقع 5 مقابل 4 بعد نهاية الوقت الأصلي بالتعادل الإيجابي بهدف لمثله.

فرض لاعبو منتخبنا أفضليتهم وسيطرتهم على اللقاء منذ الدقيقة الأولى من زمن الشوط الأول، ما أثمر عن تسجيل هدف السبق في الدقيقة الثامنة من عرضية جميلة من منير بدارين وصلت إلى محمد صندوقة الذي حولها زاحفة قوية على يمين الحارس الأردني مراد الفالوجي.

وتواصلت الأفضلية الفلسطينية بعد هذا الهدف، دون أي خطورة تذكر للمنتخب الأردني، وفشل صندوقة في الدقيقة الـ25 في إضافة هدف ثان لمنتخبنا بعد أن راوغ أحد مدافعي الأردن وانفرد بالحارس لكنه سدد الكرة برعونة بعيدا عن المرمى.

وكاد النجم منير البدارين في الدقيقة الـ29 أن يباغت الحارس الأردني من تسديدة قوية من مسافة بعيدة أبعدها الحارس بصعوبة إلى ركنية.

ومن هجمة أولى ضعيفة منح حكم اللقاء وبغرابة المنتخب الأردني ركلة جزاء غير مستحقة في الدقيقة الـ42 بعد لمس الكرة يد أحد لاعبينا داخل صندوق الجزاء، سجلها اللاعب الأردني علاء دية في المرمى لينتهي الشوط الأول بتعادل غير مستحق للأردن بهدف لمثله.

واستمرت السيطرة لصالح منتخبنا خلال الشوط الثاني، وحرم القائم وبعد مرور ساعة منتخبنا من تسجيل الهدف الثاني بعد تسديدة قوية من مسافة بعيدة من اللاعب جمال البدارين.

ولاحت فرصة خطيرة لمنتخبنا لتسجيل الهدف الثاني في الدقيقة الـ85 بعد كرة ثابتة من على مشارف منطقة الجزاء سددها البديل أحمد شديد تألق الحارس الأردني الفالوجي في التصدي لها على دفعتين.

وكاد قصي المنصوري في الدقيقة الـ92 أن يسجل الهدف الثاني للأردن من تسديدة قوية من خارج صندوق الجزاء لكن القائم حرمه من التسجيل، لينتهي اللقاء بالتعادل بهدف لمثله، ويتم اللجوء مباشرة إلى ركلات الجزاء.

(AFP) - Arsenal regained the lead in the English Premier League in football from defending champion Manchester City, with a remarkable victory outside its home stadium over its London neighbor Chelsea 1-0 on Sunday in the fifteenth stage, which witnessed the leadership of Egyptian Mohamed Salah for his team, Liverpool, to a victory over its host, Tottenham 2. -1, and a wonderful start for Spanish coach Unai Emery with Aston Villa, by defeating Manchester United 3-1.
Arsenal raised its tally to 34 points, two points ahead of Manchester City, who beat Fulham 2-1 on Saturday, while Chelsea remained seventh with 21 points after failing to win a fourth consecutive match.
And the Spanish coach of Arsenal, Mikel Arteta, who played his 150 match as coach of the team, was the same number of games he played with him as a player, happy with this “great victory for us. It is another step for us as a team. To come here to face a team of high caliber and to perform and win, this will be granted.” Young men, more faith” in the team’s ability to try to win the first title since 2004 and the days of French coach Arsene Wenger.
He continued, "We are a really young team, but we showed a lot of composure and courage on the way we played in this stadium. I am really impressed. We were under pressure to get back to the top, and what we did today was unbelievable."
Arsenal was the better side for most of the match, in a match that did not witness many chances, except for a dangerous one for the guests, when Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli raised a perfect ball inside the area, so his compatriot Gabriel Jesus slipped behind the Chelsea defenders and turned his head outside the three sticks, and the goal was open in front of him at the end of the first half.
In the second half, Chelsea coach Graham Potter sent off Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, former Arsenal player, and replaced him with Albanian Armando Broja. Arsenal succeeded in opening the scoring when Bukayo Saka lifted the ball from a corner kick that passed everyone, and Brazilian defender Gabriel followed it into the net from close range (63).
Arsenal's Norwegian playmaker Martin Odegaard wasted a good opportunity to boost his team's lead when he curled a ball that passed to the right post (74).
Emery made a great start with his new team, Aston Villa, as successor to Stephen Gerrard, by leading him to his first home victory in the league against Manchester United since August 19, 1995, by defeating him 3-1, which is the same result as his last victory over the “Red Devils” among his fans in “ Premier League".
And in a match that United started with the participation of Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo as a key player, while also wearing the captain’s armband, Jacob Ramsey caught the eye, after he became, according to “Opta” statistics, only the fourth player in the history of the Premier League to score for his team and his own goal by mistake and make a decisive pass in the same match, after Kevin Davis (December 2008), Welshman Gareth Bale (November 2012) and Wayne Rooney (October 2012).
Ramsey played the role of a passer in Villa's first goal in the match, which was scored by Jamaican Leon Bailey since the 7th minute, then after French Luca Digne added the second from a beautiful free kick (11), the 21-year-old restored hope to United when the ball turned from him after a shot from Luke Shaw and deceived His Argentine goalkeeper, Emiliano Martinez (45), before himself restored the difference to two goals at the beginning of the second half, after a pass from Olly Watkins (49).
With this result, thanks to which he raised his score to 15 points in thirteenth place, Villa inflicted a first defeat on the team of Dutch coach Eric ten Hag in his last 9 matches locally and continually, and the fourth this season, to freeze his score at 23 points in fifth place, before the date between them was renewed Thursday. In the third round of the League Cup, this time at Old Trafford.
Ten Hag was not satisfied with what he saw from his team, saying, "It is not acceptable to concede a goal so quickly at the beginning of the second half on the counterattack. Our players are experienced and you have to win individual matches. They (Villa) looked as if they were more physically fit. It is unacceptable. On Players take responsibility and be ready."
After two successive defeats against Nottingham and Leeds, life returned to Liverpool by defeating Tottenham in the latter's stronghold 2-1, thanks to its top scorer, Salah, who scored both goals.
The first came after a beautiful collective game and a pass inside the area from Uruguayan Darwin Nunes (11), and the second came after a ball that arrived directly from Brazilian goalkeeper Allison on the outskirts of the London team’s area, so Eric Dyer missed his vertical pass towards his French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, so the “Pharaoh” kidnapped it and played it in the ball. The net (40), scoring his sixth goal in the league this season and his fourteenth in 20 matches in all competitions.
Salah told British Sky Sports, "I think we were lucky in the first half. We played well and scored two goals. We could have scored in the second half but we weren't lucky. We did a good job by getting the three points... I'm focused on creating The difference is that I made it today."
Tottenham returned to the atmosphere of the meeting in the second half, thanks to its top scorer, Harry Kane, after a pass from Swedish substitute Diane Koloshevsky (70), but his eleventh goal in the league this season was not enough in the end to deny Liverpool its first victory away from home and the fifth in total, to raise the German coach’s team. Jürgen Klopp scored 19 points in eighth place, while the balance of his London host froze at 26 points after receiving his fourth defeat of the season.
Newcastle took full advantage of the fall of Spurs and snatched third place from it after Newcastle continued its brilliance by defeating Southampton with four goals for Paraguayan Miguel Almiron, who raised his tally to 8 goals (35), New Zealander Chris Wood (58), Joe Willock (62) and Brazilian Bruno Guimarães (2). +90), against a goal by Frenchman Romain Peru (89).
Crystal Palace snatched a fatal victory from its host and London neighbor, West Ham, 2-1, thanks to the goal of Frenchman Michael Ulis (4 + 90).

Beijing - (AFP) - Chinese-Canadian singer and actor Chris Wu , who is widely popular in China, was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for rape , in a case that sparked a scandal in China.

A court in the Chaoyang district of Beijing sentenced the 32-year-old artist to "11 years and six months in prison" for rape.

The court's decision also included a sentence against Chris Wu A, "to one year and ten months in prison, for gathering people with intent to commit adultery."
The ruling stipulates that Wu will be deported from China after the end of his sentence.

Wu was known as a member of the South Korean Chinese band EXO, before he separated from it in 2014 to begin his successful career as a singer, actor and model.

And last year, a 19-year-old Chinese student accused him of raping her during a date when she was 17.
After a wave of widespread condemnation sparked by the rape scandal, several international brands such as "Louis Vuitton", "L'Oreal", "Bulgari" and "Porsche" terminated their partnership with him after he was a media face for them.

Soon, other women claimed online that they had been subjected to sexually harassing behavior from Wu's team, for example by inviting them to parties.

This case revived the "Me Too" (Me Too) movement in China, but this wave has not seen anything new since the issue emerged.
For fear of provoking an uncontrolled mass movement, the authorities that control the Internet on social media have blocked hashtags and keywords that refer to cases of sexual harassment.

DAVOS - (Xinhua) -- President of the World Economic Forum Borg Brende said Friday that avoiding a recession and building a strong growth agenda will be crucial to preventing the fragmentation of the global economy.

In his closing remarks during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Brinde said that progress had been made at the 5-day forum on issues of climate ambition, equitable growth and frontier technologies.

The 2023 meeting of the World Economic Forum was held under the theme "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" and came against a backdrop of unprecedented global challenges, including high inflation, energy crisis, climate change and geopolitical conflict.

However, at the end of the forum, Brindi expressed his confidence that "we can shape a more resilient, sustainable and equitable future", but added that "the only way to do this is for us to be together".

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said during the meeting that "our world is suffering from a massive storm on a number of fronts," explaining that finding solutions to current global issues would be difficult if the world was united, but "instead, we face the most dangerous levels of geopolitical division and mistrust in generations.”

Forum participants, including Guterres, called on the world to heal the rift and restore confidence. "The time has come to forge paths of cooperation in our fragmented world," Guterres said.

MEXICO, (AFP) - A journalist has been found dead in northwestern Mexico , authorities announced Tuesday, in what is believed to be another murder in one of the deadliest years yet for the country's press.

The body of freelance journalist Juan Arjón Lopez, who ran a news page on Facebook, was found in San Luis Rio Colorado, in the northwestern state of Sonora, near the border with the United States.

The identity of the 62-year-old man was identified from his fingerprints, according to a source in the Sonora Public Prosecutor's Office told AFP, hours after Public Prosecutor Indira Contreras announced to reporters that a body with tattoos matching those of Aragon had been found.

The authorities were informed of his disappearance on August 9th.

The Public Prosecution Office said in a statement that the autopsy concluded that the death was caused by brain trauma resulting from a blow with a sharp object, adding that it did not rule out any hypothesis in the investigations.

According to Reporters Without Borders, Arkhon alternated between working as a journalist and at a local restaurant.

His recent news reports on his Facebook page, What Are You Afraid Of, were about drug seizures and the recovery of several stolen goods.

At least 13 journalists have been killed since the beginning of the year in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalism, according to media advocacy groups.

More than 150 media workers have been killed since 2000 in this country, and in most cases their killers have not been punished.

(AFP) - Roma regained its winning streak and rose to fourth place with its difficult and valuable victory over Verona 3-1 on Monday at the end of the twelfth stage of the Italian Football Championship.
Verona was the first to score through his Polish defender Pavel Davidovich in the 27th minute, but the latter made it difficult for his team to maintain its lead by expelling him in the 36th minute after he was blocked by international midfielder Nicolo Zaniolo when the latter was on his way to be alone with goalkeeper Lorenzo Montepo.
The capital team, which fell 1-0 at home to Napoli, took advantage of the numerical shortage and turned the tables on the landlords. He equalized through Zaniolo when he followed up with his left foot on a rebound from the left post after a shot by Englishman Tammy Abraham (45 + 1).
Zaniola suffered an injury in the second half and left his place for Christian Volpato (58).
The crossbar denied the Serbian international substitute, Nemanja Matic, from granting the lead to Roma, by returning his header from close range, after a corner kick that Lorenzo Pellegrini (82).
Volpato succeeded in hitting the net of the landlords when he received a creeping cross from Matic after a wonderful individual effort for the latter, so he hit it with the first touch from outside the area to the left of the goalkeeper (88), before the other substitute of Egyptian origin, Stephan El Shaarawy, added the third goal, taking advantage of a pass on a plate of gold. Inside the area from Volpato, he cleverly raised it above goalkeeper Montebo and dodged it before following it into the empty goal (90 + 2).
Portuguese goalkeeper Rui Patricio saved his goal from a goal for the home side by blocking a powerful shot by Ghanaian substitute Ibrahim Suleiman from inside the area (90 + 4).
Rome took advantage of the loss of its neighbor, Lazio, against its host Salernitana 1-3 on Sunday, and snatched fourth place from it, by one point, after raising its score to 25 points, while Verona suffered its seventh consecutive and ninth loss this season, so its score froze at five points in the penultimate nineteenth place.
Bologna followed the example of Roma and turned the tables on its host Monza, achieving its third victory this season, 2-1.
Newcomer Monza advanced to the top flight through Andrea Petagna in the 57th minute from a penalty kick, and Bologna responded by Scotsman Louis Ferguson (60) and Riccardo Orsolini (73).
Bologna confirmed its revival with its second successive victory after the first over Lecce 2-0, and the third this season after defeating Fiorentina 2-1 in the sixth stage.
Bologna dissolved the partnership with Montsa after raising its score to 13 points and rose to the twelfth place, while Montsa's balance froze at 10 points in the fifteenth place, with its third loss in a row and the eighth this season.

Qalqilya - "Jerusalem" dot com - Mustafa Sabri - Major General Rafi Rawajbeh, Governor of Qalqilya Governorate, met in his office today, Thursday, with the Argentine poet and artist " Leonardo Gaston Hermann ", Secretary General of the International Writers Union and Writers for Freedom, and founder of the International Book Forum "The Moon and the Trigger". He informed him about the reality of the governorate and what it suffers from as a result of the occupation policy represented by the wall and settlements.

He was accompanied during the visit by a. Munjid Saleh, a diplomat and former Palestinian ambassador to Mexico, d. Luay Abu Al-Saud, a lecturer in archeology at An-Najah University, prof. The poet Jumaa Al-Rifai, a member of the General Secretariat of the Palestine Writers Union, in the presence of the poet and writer Dr. Al-Mutawakkil Taha.

During the meeting, the governor welcomed the delegation and praised the relationship between the Argentine people and the Palestinian people, and gave a detailed explanation of the reality of the governorate and what it suffers from, as a result of the occupation and its settlers and the daily procedures against citizens, stressing that these systematic policies aim at plundering and stealing the land in favor of the settlements, and stressed the importance of the delegation’s visit to see On closely lived reality and conveying observations to the free world, denouncing the international silence on the occupation's crimes against the Palestinian people.

In turn, he thanked "Leonardo Gaston Hermann" the governor for the information he provided about the reality of the Palestinian people and their suffering from the occupation, noting that the world is aware of the reality but looks through the eyes of the United States, and he appreciated the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their resistance to the occupation, expressing his honor to visit Palestine, stressing that it is one of the Through the International Writers Union, we will convey the picture and the truth to the world, and we will support the struggle of the Palestinian people until liberation.

In his speech on the General Union of Palestinian writers and writers thanked d. Al-Mutawakkil Taha, the governor of the warm welcome, indicated that the leadership of the Palestinian people is united with the citizens, and valued the Palestinian-Argentine relations. As a result of the occupation and its measures, he thanked the Palestinian Writers Union, which provided the opportunity to communicate with the world's honorable writers.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Education , and within the activities of the Year of Education Sovereignty in Jerusalem, revived the Palestinian Teacher's Day, announcing the results of the Palestine Teacher Award for the year 2022, "the session of the late Hisham Mukahl," Secretary-General of the Union of Arab Teachers.

And he won the title of Palestine Teacher for the year 2022, the educator, Maha Jamal Abu Manshar, at the Yasser Amr Secondary School for Girls, from the Hebron Education Directorate.

This came with participation; Assistant Undersecretary for Educational Affairs Ayoub Alyan, Assistant Undersecretary for Student Affairs Sadiq Al-Khadour, Secretary General of the Palestinian Teachers Union Saed Irzeigat, and representatives of official, civil and community institutions and the educational family.

And at the beginning of his speech; Elayan saluted the teachers for their giving and distinction despite the challenges, recalling the late Makhal, who dismounted after a march full of giving, stressing that the Ministry of Education is continuing everything that would do justice to our teachers and preserve their rights, and stressing commitment to the agreement signed with the General Union of Teachers, referring to the continuous efforts and coordination With the union and the concerned authorities in order to guarantee the rights of teachers.

Elayan touched on the current circumstances and the occupation's violations of the right to education and the continuous targeting of schools in Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and in all regions, praising the efforts of those in charge of the celebration and all the arbitration committees that followed and worked objectively in this context.

turn; Irzeigat talked about the pioneering role of teachers, their struggle, patience and dedication in carrying out their lofty mission, expressing his pride in the close relationship between the union and the ministry and the achievements made for the sake of teachers and moving forward in working towards fairness and strengthening their status in all respects, developing the internal system and holding elections, and expanding the base of participation In the union and asking the government to implement the agreements signed with him, he also referred to the biography of the late Mukahl and stations from his professional life and his work for the sake of teachers and raising their status.

In her speech, on behalf of the teachers of Palestine, the educator Nadia Al-Jazzar from the Gaza Strip spoke about the giving and pride of the teachers, saying: “The teacher has a great role in society, and it is a role that can never be denied. The first building block in building the edifice of society,” expressing her thanks to the Ministry of Education for this honor and her constant appreciation to the teachers.

The celebration included performances by teachers, and artistic performances, represented by the choir of education in southern Nablus, and singing and solo playing by the student, Mays Nairat, from Ramallah and Al-Bireh Education.

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn and this morning, Thursday, 11 citizens from separate areas in the West Bank.

According to Al-Quds.com correspondent in Jenin , the occupation forces stormed the town of Jaba, south of Jenin, amid violent confrontations and armed clashes. They raided the house of Hamas leader Nazih Abu Aoun, arrested him and took him to an unknown destination.

In Arraba, another force arrested the released prisoner, Muhammad Hamdan, as the town witnessed violent confrontations, and an explosive device was thrown at those forces.

The citizen, Ahmed Reda Abu Salama, was arrested after his house was raided in the village of Faqou'a, east of Jenin.

In Qalqilya, Sayyaf Selmi was arrested.

In Hebron, Moatasem Al-Wahwah, Anas Awadeh, and Bassem Masalmeh were arrested, while Khaled Faraj was arrested from Al-Duheisheh camp, south of Bethlehem.

While the two young men, Mahmoud Attia and Adam Mahmoud, were arrested from occupied Jerusalem.

The editor, Mohammed Al-Bayed, was arrested from Aqabat Jabr camp in Jericho.

Hebron - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a citizen, his mother and his cousin, near the Abu Al-Rish checkpoint, west of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.

According to press sources, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Elias Abu Rajab, his mother and his cousin, while renovating the Al-Fayhaa School near the Abu Al-Rish checkpoint.