British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband announced that the United Kingdom's diplomatic facility in East Jerusalem is being redesignated as a mission, ensuring that a portion of the diplomatic personnel will stay in the city.
The announcement coincided with the expiration of an Israeli deadline, though authorities confirmed the physical structure will remain open rather than shutting down completely.
Additional information is anticipated to emerge as the situation continues to unfold.
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Kremlin officials say Kyiv is ‘simply ignoring’ US wishes days before midterm elections after reported strikes on two oil sites Ukraine has resumed its attacks on Russian oil refineries in defiance of pressure from Donald Trump ahead of the US midterm elections, with a ceasefire in the occupied town of Oleshky due to end late on Sunday. Russian state media said on Sunday Ukrainian long-range drones had set fire to the Kstovo refinery in Nizhny Novgorod oblast overnight, following soon after a major strike against another big refinery in Samara oblast, owned by the Russian state energy giant Rosneft. Continue reading...
Five officers from the Hamas-run police have been killed in Khan Younis and three people, including a child, killed in Gaza City, officials say.
Exclusive: Plan to allow students from bloc pay same fees as Britons contingent on entry to industrial programme, officials say Ministers are prepared to spend as much as £450m a year to give students from the EU discounted university fees, the Guardian has learned, but only if Brussels allows the UK access to its Made in Europe industrial programme. The UK government has drawn up plans to allow students arriving from the continent pay the same fees as British students, sources say, and is willing to spend hundreds of millions of pounds compensating universities to do so. Continue reading...
The anniversary coincides with a significant restructuring of Al Jazeera Media Network’s Arabic-language news services.
Dozens of garment workers in Bangladesh clashed with police in the capital Dhaka.
Protesters in New Delhi carried a one-kilometre banner bearing the names of people removed from India’s voter rolls.