PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS: The PA president wants to remove any Israeli claim that Palestinians are not a partner for peace,’ said one Palestinian analyst, after the election announcement.

When Abbas burst into Kollywood, singing and grooving to the iconic friendship anthem, Mustafa Mustafa, in the cult romantic classic Kadhal Desam (1996), the ’90s suddenly had a brand-new heartthrob.

Senior Palestinian officials loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are meeting to vote on the creation of a vice presidency and could choose a possible successor to the unpopular 89-year-old. The two-day ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Foreign leader after foreign leader has taken the podium at the United Nations General Assembly this week to condemn Israel's war ...

Nov. 12 (UPI) --President Emmanuel Macron said France and the Palestinian Authority will create a joint panel to draft a new constitution for a Palestinian state. Macron made the announcement Tuesday ...

One of the men charged with robbing Kim Kardashian shifted the blame onto her, saying crimes like these may not happen if celebrities were “a little less showy” on social media. Yunis Abbas (spelled ...

RAMALLAH — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on Thursday setting legislative elections for November 28, 2026, which, if they take place, would mark the first such vote in ...

For many ordinary Palestinians, the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh was emblematic of how out-of-touch the leadership of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority has become. By Adam Rasgon and Aaron ...

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, delivered a speech by video to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday in which he thanked countries for recognizing Palestinian statehood. By ...

Temporal co-founders Maxim Fateev, CTO (left), and Samar Abbas, CEO. (Temporal Photo) Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev have been tackling the same distributed systems problem since ...