Researchers unearthed a partial jawbone bearing seven teeth in a cave in Israel representing what scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa. This, according to them, showed that “our species” trekked out of that continent far earlier than previously known. Researchers announced the discovery of the fossil estimated as 177,000 to 194,000 […]
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Israel on Wednesday said it would pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March. Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made the remarks at a cabinet meeting on the payment programme in Jerusalem. Netanyahu said a barrier Israel completed in […]
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President Donald Trump of the United States of America, on Wednesday made a historic decision by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Trump called his decision the right thing to do. “I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” Trump said from the White House. “It’s the right […]
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Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Thursday that his country would withdraw its membership from the UN cultural agency UNESCO. “Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to prepare Israel’s withdrawal from the organisation in parallel with the U.S.,’’ the prime minister’s office said. Netanyahu in a statement praised the U.S. decision earlier Thursday to pull […]
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The Government of Israel said it would revoke the press credentials of a reporter for the Al Jazeera news network on Wednesday. This decision was taken after the reporter claimed his work was part of the “resistance’’ against Israel. The reporter, Elias Karram, 40, is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. In an interview with a […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a waiver to delay relocating the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the White House said. With this move Trump has avoided a step that would have complicated his efforts to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. During the build up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Trump […]
Continue ReadingRev. Tor Uja, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), said the commission planned to reduce the fare for pilgrimage to Israel, citing low economic situation in the country as reason. Uja made this known at the Conference of Pilgrimage Leaders and Managers of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja. The focus of the conference was […]
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