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DUBAI: Schools and universities in the UAE are to continue online "distance learning" until the end of the academic year in June amid coronavirus fears, the education ministry said Monday.
The state-run news agency WAM said studies would continue online for students in all public and private schools and universities until the end of the 2019-2020 academic year .
The distance e-education system was taken as a precautionary measure to avoid the spread of coronavirus.
RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said elections will be held on November 1 for the Palestinian National Council, the parliament of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the official news agency Wafa reported Monday.
This is the first time members of the council will be elected by direct popular vote, while in the past they were appointed or co-opted from within the movement.
Abbas, who is president both of the Palestinian Authority and of the PLO, issued a decree saying that: “Elections will be held wherever possible, both inside and outside Palestine, to ensure the broadest possible participation of the Palestinian people wherever they reside.”
The PNC has long served as as the PLO’s parliament in exile. It is dominated by Fatah, Abbas’s political movement, which was co-founded by Yasser Arafat, the Palestinians’ historic leader who died in 2004.
The Islamist movements Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which are not members of the PLO, are not represented in the council.
