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Philippines signs labour deal to allow Filipinos to work in Israel 7:51 PM December 11, 2018 Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and his Israeli counterpart Gowidenews Report on Philippines — Israel and Philippines signed a labor agreement that allowed 1,000 Filipinos to work in Israeli hotels, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Tuesday. The Philippine Embassy in Tel Aviv said the agreement was signed by Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and his Israeli counterpart, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin. Philippine Ambassador to Israel Neal Imperial said 1,000 jobs are expected to be generated by the agreement which came three months after a landmark accord on Filipino caregivers signed between Philippines and Israel last September. DFA was referring to the “Memorandum of Agreement on the Temporary Employment of Home-Based Filipino Caregivers,” signed by President Rodrigo Duterte during his four-day visit in Israel. The said labor a...

Israeli forces detain 28 Palestinians in West Bank raids DEC. 11, 2018 4:22 P.M. (UPDATED: DEC. 11, 2018 4:23 P.M.) Gowidenews Gowidenews - Report says that Israeli forces detained 28 Palestinians from across districts of the occupied West Bank, between Monday night and predawn Tuesday.  The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that Israeli forces detained two Palestinians from the southern West Bank district of Hebron, they were identified as Mahmoud Muhammad Amr and Samer Ahmad Matar. Israeli forces also reportedly confiscated amounts of money and gold from Matar’s house.  In the Bethlehem district, also in the southern West Bank, Israeli forces detained one Palestinian identified as Hani al-Seifi. Israeli forces detained five Palestinians from the Ramallah and al-Bireh district in the central West Bank, they were identified as Mahmoud Said Shreiteh, Fayiz Samir al-Tirawi, Zeidan Adnan Ibrahim Khattab, Islam Wajih Hasanein and Amer al-Tirawi....

Israel launches military operation to destroy 'cross-border terror tunnels'  Dec 5, 2018, 8:04 PM  Play Aziz Taher/Reuters WATCH  Israeli operation targets Hezbollah cross-border tunnels Gowidenews - Israeli Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu  spoke with UN Secretary General  Antonio Guterres  on Wednesday to update him on the details of a military operation that will destroy cross-border tunnels between Israel and Lebanon, according to a statement released by his office. Netanyahu launched the open-ended Israeli military operation, known as Operation Northern Shield, to destroy what he called "cross-border terror tunnels" that stretch from Lebanon into Israeli territory. He accused Hezbollah, the Lebanese-based militant Shiite group, of digging the tunnels along the northern border to attack Israeli civilians and to capture parts of the Galilee in a future conflict. On the first day of Operation Northern Shield, the Israeli Army sa...

Russian military aircraft group lands in Venezuela  2018-12-11  MOSCOW, on Dec. 11 (Gowidenews) -- Report says that a group of four Russian military aircraft landed Tuesday in the Maiquetia Simon Bolivar International airport of Venezuela, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The group included two Tu-160 strategic missile-carriers, a heavy An-124 military transport aircraft and an IL-62 long-range aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces, it said in a statement. The group covered a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers, it said, adding that at certain stages of the route, the group was escorted by the F-16 fighters of the Norwegian Air Force. The Russian crews were met by the Minister of Defense of Venezuela Vladimir Padrino Lopez and representatives of the Russian embassy in Caracas. The flight was carried out in strict accordance with the International Airspace Use Regulations, the ministry said without commenting on its purpose. On Wednesda...