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Israel, UAE News in brief u A landslide early on to sign deal Sunday killed at least 14 for 28 weekly Tribute planned for military personnel and left eight missing in central flights Vietnam, the government said, in what could be the country’s largest military loss beheaded teacher in peace time as it battles major flooding. The mudslide hit the barracks of a unit of Vietnam’s 4th Military Landslide 11th person was Region in the central province of Quang Tri, the hits barracks • government said in a statement on its website. detained yesterday It occurred days after another landslide killed 13 in Vietnam, Reuters | Jerusalem people, mostly soldiers, in the neighbouring province killing 14 The 47-year-old of Thua Thien Hue. srael and the United Arab teacher• was killed Nagorno- u The defence IEmirates will a sign a deal on Friday outside ministry of the yesterday to allow 28 weekly Karabakh says his school Nagorno-Karabakh commercial flights between death toll among region said on Sunday Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, its military rises it had recorded another Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Isra- • The assailant, who to 673 40 casualties among its el’s Transportation Ministry was born in Russia of military, pushing the military death toll to 673 since said on Sunday. Chechen origin, was fighting with Azeri forces erupted on Sept. 27. The fighting has surged to its worst The agreement, which level since the 1990s, when some 30,000 people were killed. also allows unlimited char- shot dead by police ter flights to a smaller air- soon after the attack u Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters took over People gather in front of the Bois d’Aulne college after the attack in the Paris key intersections in Bangkok yesterday, defying a ban on protests port in southern Israel and suburb of Conflans St Honorine, France 10 weekly cargo flights, for the fourth day with chants of “down with dictatorship” and “reform the Reuters | Paris monarchy.” Demonstrations have persisted comes after Israel and UAE Prophet is blasphemous. before the attack. agreed to normalize rela- The government has por- “I want teachers to know that, despite the arrest of dozens of protesters tions. n 11th person was de - trayed the killing as an attack after this ignoble act, the whole and their leaders, the use of water cannon The aviation deal will be tained yesterday, police on the heart of French values. country is behind them,” Castex and shutdowns on much of Bangkok’s metro signed at Ben Gurion air- said, as authorities in- Education Minister Jean- told the Journal du Dimanche rail system in a bid to quell over three A months of street action. Police have given port and flights are expect- vestigated the murder of Sam- Michel Blanquer and politi- in an interview. ed to begin within weeks, uel Paty, a history teacher who cians from across the spectrum “This tragedy affects each no full breakdown. They made no immediate steps to Protesters the ministry said. was beheaded by a suspect - were due to attend Sunday’s and every one of us because, intervene as protesters took over Victory Monument take over ed Islamist in an attack that commemoration in central through this teacher, it is the and Asok, two of Bangkok’s most important transport hubs. Police said there were around 10,000 people at Bangkok streets stunned the country. Paris. A national tribute will Republic that was attacked.” in new show of Satirical magazine Charlie be organised for Wednesday, There were no details of Victory Monument alone. Hebdo, whose offices were at- President Emmanuel Macron’s the 11th person to be de - u A car bomb yesterday targeting an Afghan defiance Top clerics urge tacked in a mass killing five office said. tained in connection with the police headquarters in the western province of Ghor years ago, was among groups Prime Minister Jean Cas - killing. killed at least 12 civilians and wounded more than 100, officials said. The attack Lebanese leaders organising a tribute to Paty in tex said the government was Four close relatives of the at- took place in Feroz Koh, the capital of Ghor, to agree on Paris in the afternoon. working on a strategy to better tacker were detained soon after a province that has not seen much violence The 47-year-old teacher was protect teachers from threats. the attack. Five more were later compared to government killed on Friday outside his Paty had been the target of an detained, including the father 12 killed, some other Reuters | Beirut school in a Paris suburb by an angry campaign on social media of a pupil at Paty’s school and dozens wounded by regions of the 18-year-old attacker. The assail- an acquaintance of the pupil’s car bomb targeting conflict-wracked The leaders of Lebanon’s ant, who was born in Russia of On Saturday, hundreds of father known to the intelligence country. people, including pupils Afghan police Maronite and Orthodox Chechen origin, was shot dead services, anti-terrorism prose- u New Zealand’s ruling Labour Christian churches urged by police soon after the attack. and their parents, teachers cutor Jean-Francois Ricard said and local residents came party leader Jacinda Ardern said on Sunday that she would Lebanese leaders yesterday Earlier this month, the teach- on Saturday. to express their grief form a government within two to three weeks but did not comment A 10th person was placed in to stop delaying talks on er had shown his pupils car- and solidarity in front on a possible coalition deal with the Green Party. Ardern, who was handed a forming a government in toons of the Prophet Moham- of the school where Paty custody later on Saturday. resounding victory in a general election on Saturday, said she had informed the scathing sermons in which mad in a class on freedom of worked, the College du Bois Macron was due to hold a country’s governor general, Dame Patsy they blamed them for the expression, angering a number d’Aulnein in the suburb of security meeting with key min- Reddy, that her party had the ability to country’s financial crisis of Muslim parents. Muslims Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. isters later on Sunday, his office form the next government. Ardern also and political deadlock. believe that any depiction of the said. said there was no need to bring in any new COVID-19 restrictions after one new case of community transmission was reported in the country.

‘Hello you’: Israeli-UAE joint Global Countries worst affected Covid-19 Cases: Country Total cases new cases Total New song a YouTube hit deaths Deaths 40,146,351 1 USA 8,352,043 +9,378 224,390 +108 The song was Deaths 2 India 7,544,353 +51,626 114,575 +511 written by• Doron 3 Brazil 5,224,821 +459 153,730 +40 Medalie, who also 1,116,877 4 Russia 1,399,334 +15,099 24,187 +185 wrote “Toy”, which won 5 Spain 982,723 33,775 the 2018 Eurovision Recovered: contest in Israel 6 Argentina 979,119 26,107 30,017,114 7 Colombia 952,371 28,803 AFP News 8 France 867,197 33,392 New cases 9 Peru 865,549 33,702 he scene cuts from Dubai to TTel Aviv, the lyrics switch 10 Mexico 847,108 +5,447 86,059 +355 from Arabic to Hebrew to Eng- +207,253 11 UK 722,409 +16,982 43,646 +67 lish and the song is a slightly kitsch electro-pop duet by art- Israeli singer Elkana Marziano, 28, sings along with a video clip of his New deaths 12 South Africa 702,131 18,408 ists who, for now, remain apart. collaboration with Emirati artist Walid Aljasim (image on screen) 13 Iran 530,380 +3,890 30,375 +252 The normalisation of ties be- tween Israel and the United He said that he and Aljasim friend far away, far away” -- is 14 Chile 491,760 +1,757 13,635 +47 Arab Emirates has produced had collaborated over the Zoom repeated in the three languages, +2,681 its first musical collaboration: video-conferencing service, while the music video’s action Middle East Figures as of closing “Ahlan Bik”, or “Hello you” in with some parts of the song pivots from Marziano dancing Arabic. recorded in Dubai and others with friends in Israel to Aljasim Country Total new Total New Total Active Serious, Tot cases/1m pop cases cases deaths Deaths recovered cases Critical “This is a historic moment,” in Israel. in Dubai. said Israeli singer Elkana Mar- “The understanding was im- Marziano said that peace was ziano, whose duet with Emirati mediate,” Marziano said of the a common theme in Israeli mu- Egypt 105,297 6,109 98,157 1,031 41 1,023 artist Walid Aljasim has clocked partnership. sic, which has regularly been more than 1.1 million YouTube One online commentator, in conflict with its neighbours Saudi 342,202 +348 5,185 +20 328,538 8,479 825 9,785 views since it was posted on who posted under the name since its founding in 1948. Arabia September 30. Shaked Sharon, said: “With this He said it was a “personal UAE 115,602 +1,215 463 +4 107,516 7,623 11,647 Marziano, 28, is a former song, you feel the new Middle victory” to see young Israelis winner of Israel’s version of East.” and Emiratis interacting on- Kuwait 116,146 +663 701 +7 107,860 7,585 138 27,079 The Voice, a singing compe - The song was written by Dor- line to discuss the song on his Oman 109,953 +1,657 1,101 +30 95,624 13,228 203 21,375 tition TV show, and an Arabic on Medalie, who also wrote YouTube page, adding that he speaker influenced by the Miz- “Toy”, which won the 2018 Eu- is planning a live concert with Qatar 129,431 +204 224 +1 126,406 2,801 51 46,097 rahi culture of Jews from the rovision contest in Israel. Aljasim when the coronavirus Arab world. The chorus -- “I hear you pandemic ends.