TEL AVIV: French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna arrived in Israel Sunday where she was due to press for an “immediate and durable” truce in the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Colonna will meet her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in Tel Aviv, as Israel presses on with its military offensive after the October 7 attacks that has left much of Gaza in ruins and sent tensions spiralling across the region.
Paris on Saturday condemned an Israeli strike in Gaza that killed a French foreign ministry employee, demanding that “light be shed” on the circumstances.
BEIRUT: Lebanon on Sunday rescued more than 50 people, mostly Syrians, from a sinking migrant boat off the country’s north coast, the army said.
The military obtained “information about a vessel that was sinking off the coast of Tripoli while it was being used for illegal people smuggling,” the army said in a statement, referring to a city in north Lebanon.
Naval forces were able to “rescue 51 people aboard, including two Palestinians and 49 Syrians,” the statement added.
DUBAI: The body of late Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was laid to rest at the Sulaibikhat Cemetery on Sunday.
The emir passed away on Saturday aged 86.
The late Emir’s funeral was restricted to family members and relatives only, according to state news agency KUNA.
Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who was declared the new emir on Sunday, and the royal family will personally receive the condolences of people at the Diwan of Al-Sabah Family at Bayan Palace on Monday and Tuesday.