RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Engineers Syndicate has announced the escalation of its protest action, with hundreds of people demonstrating on Monday in front of the Palestinian prime minister’s headquarters in Ramallah as ministers met for their weekly Cabinet session.

Protesters are demanding the financial rights of public engineers and seeking a government commitment to implement a financial agreement signed between the two parties last year, syndicate sources told Arab News.

ABU DHABI: The UAE’s Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al-Nahyan met experts at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Monday to discuss climate change research, Emirates News Agency reported.

Sheikha Shamma, founder and CEO of Alliances for Global Sustainability, visited the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, founded in 2008 to bring together international experts on finance, geography, international development and political economy to address climate change.

PARIS: A hundred French parliamentarians, mainly from the political left, on Saturday denounced Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “policy of war” against Kurds in northern Syria.

While the rest of the world is focused on Ukraine, as Russia’s war crimes multiply there, Erdogan is “planning to launch an umpteenth bloody offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria,” the parliamentarians said in a statement published by the JDD title.

BEIRUT: US envoy Amos Hochstein arrived in Beirut on Sunday to push talks to resolve a bitter maritime border dispute between Lebanon and Israel over Mediterranean waters with offshore gas fields.

US ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea and embassy officials received him at Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport upon his arrival.

KHARTOUM: Thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied in the capital on Sunday to demand an end to military rule and tribal clashes that have killed over 100 people, AFP correspondents said.
“Down with Burhan,” they chanted, referring to Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the army chief who last year led a military coup that upended a transition to civilian rule following the 2019 ouster of President Omar Bashir.
Near-weekly protests have been held since, despite a deadly crackdown that has killed at least 116 people, according to pro-democracy medics.