14 June 2023; MEMO: Kuwait has concluded a contract worth $367 million with Turkish defence firm, Baykar, to buy its TB2 drones through direct negotiations between the two governments, the Kuwaiti army said in a statement on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
The statement did not reveal how many drones would be delivered to Kuwait or when.
13 June 2023; MEMO: Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, started a 3-day official visit to Russia on Tuesday for talks on boosting bilateral cooperation, Anadolu Agency reports.
In a statement, the Algerian Presidency said the visit comes upon an invitation from Russian President, Vladimir Putin, for talks on strengthening cooperation between Algeria and Russia.
13 June 2023; MEMO: Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, said Tuesday that his government will not be able to pay salaries to civil servants by the end of June, Anadolu Agency reports.
"The government will not be able to pay salaries if Parliament does not approve additional appropriations for wages," Mikati said in a statement following a Cabinet meeting.
14 June 2023; MEMO: The discovery of a Chinese component in an Iranian drone has implicated Beijing in Tehran's production and supply of armed combat drones to Russia, revealing the speed at which the UAVs are built and provided to Moscow during its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
14 June 2023; MEMO: Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, yesterday called on the US to take a stand against illegal Israeli settlement.
This came in response to Israeli plans to build more than 4,000 settlement units in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
14 June 2023; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces carried out "disproportionate air strikes," killing and injuring Palestinian civilians in Gaza last month, Amnesty concluded in a report published yesterday
14 June 2023; MEMO: A member of the Moroccan parliament has questioned what measures the government has put in place to protect the kingdom from being a site to dump foreign rubbish.
This comes after media outlets published details of an investigation carried out by the Spanish authorities into the smuggling of tonnes of plastic waste into Morocco and other countries in Africa.
14 June 2023; MEMO: No Israeli delegation participated in the 33rd Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives being held in the Indonesian island of Bali after they were told the Israeli flag would not be raised at the conference, Israeli media reported.
14 June 2023; MEMO: The US is losing influence in the Middle East to China, the Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. According to the analysis originally published on the Media Line, the US "has always had a complicated relationship" with the region.
DAMASCUS, Jun 12 (NNN-SANA) – Russian Ambassador to Syria, Alexander Efimov, said yesterday that, the U.S. sanctions on Syria are posing a major obstacle in the war-torn country’s reconstruction.
In remarks to the local online al-Watan newspaper, Efimov hailed the recent restoration of relations between Syria and other Arab countries, mainly Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, but said, the economic cooperation is stranded by the persistent U.S. sanctions.
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