5 Mar 2023; MEMO: Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Saturday that his comments earlier this week to "wipe out" the Palestinian town of Huwara was a "slip of the tongue," according to media reports, says Anadolu Agency.
5 Mar 2023; MEMO: Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets Saturday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing policies and a plan that would restrict the powers of the judiciary, reports Anadolu Agency.
Israelis have held demonstrations every Saturday against the judicial regulation of the extreme right-wing coalition government led by Netanyahu.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the remarks by a key Cabinet ally calling for a Palestinian village to be erased were inappropriate in a Twitter thread Sunday, after the U.S. demanded that he reject the statement.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A crisis over suspected poisonings targeting Iranian schoolgirls escalated Sunday as authorities acknowledged over 50 schools were struck in a wave of possible cases. The poisonings have spread further fear among parents as Tehran has faced months of unrest.
It remains unclear who or what is responsible since the alleged poisonings began in November in the Shiite holy city of Qom. Reports now suggest schools across 21 of Iran’s 30 provinces have seen suspected cases, with girls’ schools the site of nearly all the incidents.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog was meeting with officials in Iran on Saturday, days after it was revealed that the country had enriched particles of uranium to near weapons-grade, raising new alarm over its long-disputed nuclear program.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declined to comment on his discussions during a press conference with the head of Iran’s nuclear program, saying the delegation’s work was still ongoing.
3 Mar 2023; MEMO: Hamas' Basim Naim said the United Nations Security Council's failure to issue a statement condemning Israeli settlers' "terrorist attack" against Palestinians in Huwara, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, "reinforces the law of the jungle and chaos", Quds Press reported yesterday.
3 Mar 2023; MEMO: Bilateral trade and relations are set for an immense boost with a new free trade agreement between Turkiye and the UAE, according to the Gulf state's Foreign Trade Minister.
The UAE recognises that Turkiye's financial sector is the "right place" for investment and "the sky is the limit" for us in that respect, Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi told Anadolu in an exclusive interview in London as the countries gear up to ink a lucrative free trade deal.
3 Mar 2023; MEMO: Gaza officials called for help to extinguish a fire that started in a landfill in a village bordering Israel on Thursday, saying it could last for days and cause "an environmental catastrophe", Reuters reports.
A large cloud of heavy smoke billowed into the sky as night fell, and there was a strong smell of burning rubbish across Gaza City.
3 Mar 2023; MEMO: A volunteer graffiti artist at a tent city in Turkiye's quake-hit Gaziantep province is healing the traumas of children through art and other activities, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Senol Karakaya spends time daily with about 50 children at the tent city in Islahiye after the 6 February earthquakes in Turkiye.
3 Mar 2023; MEMO: Iran rejected as "fake news" on Friday a report by Britain's Royal Navy which said it had seized Iranian weapons, including anti-tank guided missiles, from a smugglers' vessel in the Gulf of Oman last month, Iranian state media said, Reuters reports.
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