Day: 2 April 2024

Beijing, China has expressed strong opposition to the latest US revised rules on semiconductor export rules, saying that it will disrupt the global semiconductor market as well as cooperation between enterprises.

The latest revision of semiconductor export controls came less than six months after the United States introduced the rules on Oct. 17, 2023, said China’s Ministry of Commerce on Sunday.

Global companies, including the US ones, need a stable and predictable business environment, but the United States has overstretched the concept of national security and arbitrarily revised the rules to tighten control measures, setting more obstacles for the normal trade cooperation between Chinese and American enterprises, imposing a heavier compliance burden and bringing remarkable uncertainties in the global semiconductor sector, it noted.

The semiconductor sector is highly globalized after decades of growth and this is the result of the law of the market and the choice of enterprises, it said.

As the world’s
largest semiconductor market, China is willing to work with all sides to boost mutually beneficial cooperation and promote the security and stability of the global semiconductor industrial chain and supply chain, it said.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Geneva: The Israeli occupation army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City over the course of the past two weeks, indiscriminately targeting and attacking Palestinians regardless of their civilian status, professional standing, gender, age, or health condition, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said.

Though the exact number of casualties from the atrocity is still unknown, preliminary reports suggest that over 1,500 Palestinians have been martyred, injured, or are reported missing as a result of the massacre at Al-Shifa, with women and children making up half of the casualties, Euro-Med Monitor said in a statement Monday.

The massacre claimed the lives of at least 22 patients who were martyred in their hospital beds during the Israeli siege of the Medical Complex, amid the willful deprivation of their access to food, medical care, and supplies. The occupation army also purposefully prevented relief teams and representatives of international organis
ations from entering Al-Shifa to carry out humanitarian missions or evacuations, plus purposefully cleared the Complex of all working personnel particularly medical personnel either by summary execution or forced displacement or arrest, Euro-Med Monitor said.

Al-Shifa Medical Complex is currently out of service due to the Israeli occupation army bombing and setting fire to every one of its buildings, including the mortuary and all internal and external courtyards and corridors, it added.

Members of the Israeli army forced more than 25,000 Palestinian civilians to evacuate their homes in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex. These forced evacuations occurred after Israel committed horrendous crimes against local families, including killing, direct targeting, besieging, and starving them, as well as arbitrary arrests and destroying and burning homes and civilian objects. According to initial estimates, the Israeli army demolished and set ablaze over 1,200 housing units in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical
Complex, the Geneva-based organization said.

Israel is still implementing its policy to forcefully evacuate the people of Gaza City and the surrounding areas, through forced displacement orders, extensive military operations, starvation, siege, and denial of the basic necessities of life, including medical care, Euro-Med Monitor said.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the international community must act swiftly and forcefully to defend Palestinian civilians against the genocide that Israel has been committing in the Gaza Strip for the past six months, an apply genuine pressure on Israel to cease its grave crimes in the region.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Gaza: Several Palestinians were martyred at Tuesday dawn as a result of the Israeli occupation aircraft bombing a house in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medical sources reported that four citizens, including two children, were martyred and several others were injured after the occupation bombed a house west of Rafah.

The death toll from the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has risen to 32,845 martyrs and 75,392 injured, while thousands are still missing under the rubble and on the roads. The occupation forces are preventing ambulance teams from reaching them.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Pyongyang, North Korea has reaffirmed its plan to launch several spy satellites this year.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency quoted the vice director of the National Aerospace Technology General Bureau as saying that last year’s successful launch of the reconnaissance satellite Malligyong-1 has brought about substantial progress in strengthening national defense capabilities.

He stressed North Korea will build a space power without fail by accelerating its space development in a sustainable manner.

North Korea had earlier revealed a plan to launch three more spy satellites in 2024.

North Korea had successfully launched the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit in November 21 after two previous failures in May and August 2023.

Source: Qatar News Agency

New York, Iran called for an urgent UN Security Council meeting to address the attack launched by the Israeli entity on the Iranian consulate building in Syria.

Iran’s permanent delegation to the UN sent a letter to the rotating president of the UN Security Council, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, following the attack that targeted the Iranian consulate in Damascus, (IRNA) reported.

The letter explained that these attacks constitute a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, international laws; and the foundational principle of the inviolability of diplomatic and consular premises, as outlined in the 1961 Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons including Diplomatic Agents of 1973.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Moscow, The Russian Ministry of Defence announced that air defense systems destroyed six Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea.

The ministry said in a statement that an attempt by Ukrainian forces to carry out an attack using drones to strike facilities inside Russian territory was thwarted, adding that the air defense systems on duty detected six Ukrainian drones and were able to destroy them over the Black Sea.

It pointed to the downing of 19 missiles launched by Ukrainian forces from Vampire missiles over the Russian Belgorod province.

On an almost daily basis, Ukrainian forces target installations and facilities in the Russian border areas in several provinces, including Belgorod, with drones, missiles, and artillery shells.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Seoul, North Korea fired what appeared to be an intermediate-range missile into the East Sea on Tuesday, the South Korean military said.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in South Korea said it detected a missile presumed to be intermediate-range class fired from the Pyongyang region towards the East Sea, according to South Korea’s News Agency (Yonhap).

“Our military has heightened surveillance and alertness in preparation for additional launches. We are maintaining a full readiness posture while sharing information related to North Korean ballistic missile launches with US and Japanese authorities,” the JCS said.

Japan’s defense ministry said the North Korean ballistic missile fell into waters outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

The latest ballistic missile launch comes 15 days after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un guided firing drills involving super-large multiple rocket launchers in the country’s western region.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Ramallah: A Palestinian youth has Tuesday succumbed to wounds he sustained from Israeli occupation gunfire during a raid in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin.

Palestinian WAFA news agency said that the youth, from the town of Qabatiya, has died as a result of injuries he sustained during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the town.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces detained 14 Palestinians on Tuesday and wounded others in multiple raids across the occupied West Bank.

Local and security sources said that the occupation forces rounded up 11 Palestinians from Husan town and ransacked the houses of their families, turning them upside down. The occupation forces also detained three Plaestinians from the Bethlehem city neighborhood of Jabal al-Mawalih.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Doha: Qatari nationals and long-term residents who have recently graduated from college are advised that applications are now open for the next cycle of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatars (WCM-Q) Biomedical Research Training Program for Nationals 2024. Applications to join the WCM-Q Biomedical Research Training Program can be submitted online until April 28, 2024.

The program has been carefully designed to equip college graduates with the key research skills and experiences to allow them to begin building successful careers in biomedical research.

The forthcoming cycle of this ten-month training program will run from September 1, 2024 until June 27, 2025. Participating graduates will work alongside WCM-Qs world-leading research scientists in the colleges laboratories and will gain practical laboratory skills, research administration skills, and knowledge of how to conduct clinical research projects. There will also be opportunities to contribute to ongoing scientific studies being carried out at WCM-Q.

The high
ly successful program is fully funded by WCM-Q. The training program is a full-time, ten-month commitment and trainees receive a graduation certificate upon completion.

Although the program is aimed at recent graduates who are interested in pursuing a career as a bench or clinical researcher, or a research administrator, applications from nationals are welcomed irrespective of their discipline.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Beirut, The Israeli entity intensified its bombing of villages and towns in southern Lebanon.

Field sources reported that Israeli warplanes carried out two raids targeting the town of Khiam, while another air strike with four missiles targeting the town of Kafr Kila.

Israeli drones targeted the town of Mays Al-Jabal, and the occupation artillery also targeted the outskirts of the town of Zabqin, the sources added.

The Israeli entity continues its escalation against the towns and villages of southern Lebanon, coinciding with its ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, murdering and injuring tens of thousands of Palestinians and forcing hundreds of families to flee their homes.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Helsinki , A minor opened fire Tuesday at a school in Vantaa outside the Finnish capital Helsinki injuring three others, police said, adding that the attacker was in custody.

The school has around 800 pupils and 90 staff.

Police were alerted to the scene and later specified that both the suspect and the injured were all minors.

The city of Vantaa’s crisis group was activated following the shooting, local media reported.

Police urged the public to stay away from the area and remain indoors.

Source: Qatar News Agency