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...That reflects the realisation that the weak PA, which is led by President Mahmoud Abbas, 88, and is unpopular among many Palestinians, lacks the credibility to move into Gaza....
...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed economist Mohammad Mustafa the new prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, according to Wafa, the state-run news agency....
...President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, accepted Shtayyeh’s resignation on Monday....
...There are various mela festivals, such as Big John’s Birmingham Mela, a massive Asian cultural event; a celebration of Shakespeare and the poet-philosopher Mohammad Iqbal on Iqbal’s birthday in November...
...Shtayyeh on Monday offered his resignation in a letter to President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority....
...Alaa Mahmoud was displaced from Khan Younis, the southern city viewed by Israel as a Hamas stronghold, which has been the scene of fierce fighting for weeks....
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken told Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas that the US saw the PA as “playing a central role” in any post-Hamas government in Gaza, a US official said....
...Mahmoud Vaezi, a senior politician close to the former president, said the hardliners had “been putting the blame for all the Iran’s shortcomings on Rouhani’s administration, even while they’ve been in power...
...But Iran’s defence minister, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani, said on Wednesday that the country’s response to threats would be “proportional, decisive and firm”....
...It was a visit to Iyyam’s maternal aunt and uncle’s house, in an area known as the Emirati neighbourhood in northwestern Khan Younis, that cost most of the immediate family their lives on November 3....
...The US said Sullivan would also visit Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, on Friday to meet Mahmoud Abbas, president of the PA, and discuss security, including US efforts to hold Israeli extremist settlers...
...The international community, led by the US, has called on President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, to accept the resignation....
...After news of the explosion broke late on Tuesday, Jordan cancelled a summit King Abdullah had planned to host for Biden, Egypt’s Sisi and Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority....
...In Rafah’s main square, which is crowded with displaced people, Mohammad Tamraz asked passers-by if they knew of a school with space for his family, including his father in a wheelchair....
...Palestinian authorities said on Tuesday that Israeli air strikes overnight had killed more than 70 people in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and the nearby area....
...Dozens of people were killed in air strikes in the southern towns of Rafah and Khan Younis on Tuesday and scores more injured, Palestinian officials said....
...There were a lot of uncertainties on what would happen after June,” said Mohammad Sohail, chief executive of Topline Securities brokerage in Karachi....
...Nevine Ahmed, a mother of six, said she was heading to her family home in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, but that it also had been under bombardment....
...“When [Palestinian prime minister] Mohammad Shtayyeh came here I told him, ‘Either protect us, or give us a way to protect ourselves’,” he says....
...Among the displaced is Mahmoud Rostom, a third year IT student at Gaza’s Islamic University, who fled Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, with his parents and nine siblings last month....
...Climate change “will significantly shape how the sector will choose to manage and absorb risks,” says Mohammad Khan, general insurance leader for consultancy PwC’s UK arm....
...“Please don’t do that,” Khan said. “You’ll put everyone at risk.”...
...It will have an exhibition and residency space and 100-acre sculpture park designed by Aga Khan architecture award nominee Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury and will be completed this year....
...But the political turbulence puts more pressure on Pakistan’s economy, said Mohammad Sohail, chief executive at Topline, a Karachi brokerage, which is already suffering “challenges on inflation and external...
...A previous failed attempt on Rushdie’s life in 1989 was believed to have been planned by a member of Hizbollah, known as Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh....
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