The Higher Defense Council convened Tuesday at Baabda presidential palace, in the presence of Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab as well as Caretaker Ministers of Defense, Justice, Interior, Economy, Finance, Public Health, and Public Works, approving a two-week total lockdown over the coronavirus concerns. The caretaker premier Diab said after ...
Palestine Liberation Organization secretary general and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat died Tuesday of coronavirus complications at the age of 65, the Palestinian president’s office said. A lung transplant recipient who suffered from pulmonary fibrosis, “Saeb Erekat died at Hadassah Hospital” in Al-Quds (Jerusalem), where he had been admitted on October ...