UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is concerned by the tensions around the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem and calls on political leaders in the region to refrain from any provocative action, UN spokesman Farhan Haq said in a press briefing on Monday

About 20 percent of Americans worshiped in a church, synagogue, mosque, or temple in the past week, a rebound attributed to falling COVID-19 limits as vaccinations increase, a Gallup poll said on Wednesday

The situation on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where riots broke out after Friday prayer, was taken under the control of the Israeli police, 16 suspects were detained, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Sputnik

Clashes between the Israeli police and Palestinians began on Friday on the territory of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on top of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a Sputnik correspondent reported