Tag: Zeina Khodr
Turkiye: Funerals held for Istanbul attack victims
Funerals have been held in Istanbul for some of the victims of Sunday’s bombing. Turkish police have arrested 46 people. The explosion killed six people and injured dozens more. Relatives and Turkish officials are attending the ceremonies, as the city remains on high alert. Police have detained 47 individuals together with a Syrian girl suspected of planting the bomb. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from…
Lebanon, Israel finalise US-brokered maritime border deal
Israeli and Lebanese leaders have signed a US-brokered deal that for the first time lays out their maritime border in the Mediterranean Sea. It enables both countries to conduct offshore exploration for gas and oil. The agreement comes after months of indirect talks that also ended a decades-long border dispute. The two neighbours have no official relations and are technically at war. Israel’s Prime Minister…
Lebanon-Israel maritime deal paves way for oil & gas exploration
Israel and Lebanon have officially approved a historic United States-brokered agreement laying out their maritime boundary for the first time, which opens up the possibility for both countries to conduct offshore energy exploration. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun signed a letter at the presidential palace on Thursday morning that will be submitted to US officials at Lebanon’s southernmost border point of Naqoura later in the day….