RAMALLAH -- A Palestinian teenager was killed, and another two injured on Thursday by Israeli soldiers in a village east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a press statement.
Mohamed Islim, 15, died after he was shot in the back by Israeli soldiers who stormed the village of Azzun, the statement read.
Of the two injured teenagers, one was in serious conditions and has been admitted to the intensive care unit at the governmental hospital in the city, where doctors tried to save his life, according to the statement. (Palestine-Israel-Killing)
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TUNIS -- Tunisia denied that it had deported immigrants from sub-Saharan African countries by force, according to a statement released by the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.
"Following allegations concerning the forced deportation of a number of immigrants from the brotherly sub-Saharan African countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that none of the citizens from those diaspora has been expelled by force," read the statement. (Tunisia-Immigrants-Deportation)
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CAIRO -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday announced a package of measures to cushion the impact of the soaring prices.
The measures included raising minimum wage for government employees to 3,500 Egyptian pounds (nearly 114 U.S. dollars) from 2,700 pounds and pensions by 15 percent, al-Sisi said in a speech that was broadcast by state-run Nile TV. (Egypt-Minimum Wage-Price Hike)
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CAIRO -- A discovery of a nine-meter-long and 2.10-meter-wide corridor behind the Great Pyramid of Giza, known as Khufu Pyramid, was announced on Thursday.
Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa said that "the discovery is a result of the international 'ScanPyramids' project that was launched in 2015 by Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities to study the structure of the pyramids without using harmful drilling methods." (Egypt-Pyramid-New Corridor)
