05 May 2023; MEMO: The head of the Israel' opposition, National Unity Party, Benny Gantz, said yesterday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unable to lead the country.
05 May 2023; MEMO: Whoever wins Turkiye's elections this month, the NATO-member is expected to maintain cordial relations with Russia that have already endured several years of dramatic change in Ankara's foreign policy, Reuters reports.
What prompted that change was Turkiye's severe economic crisis, which forced President Tayyip Erdogan to mend strained relations with nations such as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Israel, which he had previously vehemently criticised, analysts said.
05 May 2023; MEMO: The project for a new road in the E1 area of the Occupied West Bank that will segregate Israeli settlers and Palestinians is being finalised, reported Haaretz.
05 May 2023; MEMO: A recent Israeli poll said that, if elections were held these days, the National Unity party of former Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, would gain more parliamentary seats than Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party, Anadolu News Agency reports.
06 May 2023; MEMO: Israeli occupation forces murdered two Palestinian youths in Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm on Saturday morning.
This came in a raid carried out by the Israeli occupation forces and undercover border police, the Israeli occupation army announced in a statement.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health shared that the two youths were brought deceased to a hospital in Tulkarm, and a third was brought with injuries to the limbs and in stable condition.
AMMAN, May 5 (NNN-PETRA) – Jordan and Iraq reached a deal yesterday, to renew the export of Iraqi crude to the kingdom under preferential terms, Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources said, in a statement.
The deal was signed by Jordan’s Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Saleh Al Kharabsheh, and Iraqi Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul Ghani, in Baghdad.
Under the deal, Jordan will start importing 10,000 barrels of crude per day for a period of a year, starting from June, the Jordan News Agency reported, citing an Iraq Ministry of Oil statement.
DOHA, May 5 (NNN-QNA) – Qatar started to use AI speech-to-text technology, in public prosecution, to boost efficiency, local media reported yesterday.
The system will be used in criminal investigations and editing legal documents, in addition to manual input. It will speedily extract useful information from speech and put them down in text, according to Gulf Times’ report.
It would enable the Qatar Public Prosecution to better play its role and ensure the timely delivery of justice, the report added.
KHARTOUM, May 5 (Reuters) - General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan pledged to take Sudan to civilian rule, but after going to war last month with his former partner in a military coup, that looks a distant promise.
As his warplanes rain strikes on the capital and his troops battle the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of rival general Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, Burhan has shown no inclination to compromise.
ADEN, Yemen, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A roadside bomb exploded next to a military ambulance in Yemen's southern province of Abyan on Friday, killing two soldiers and wounding three others, a security official told Xinhua.
The local official asked to remain anonymous said the ambulance was blasted by the homemade bomb when it was transporting soldiers of Yemeni government forces who were wounded in sporadic fighting with al-Qaida militants.
ANKARA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Russian and Ukrainian delegates had scuffles during a meeting of Black Sea countries in Ankara, the Turkish parliament speaker confirmed on Friday.
The fightings broke out late Thursday at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation in the Turkish parliament building.
When the head of the Russian delegation began to deliver a speech, people from the Ukrainian delegation started to raise banners and flags, and speak loudly, Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop told reporters on Friday.
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