23 Feb 2023; MEMO: Iran seems to have directly addressed and responded to reports that it has enriched uranium to a high 84 per cent purity, after inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reportedly made the discovery recently.
23 Feb 2023; MEMO: Authorities have completed 80 per cent of damage assessment in the earthquake zone in southern Turkiye after the powerful 6 February tremors, the country's Environment Minister said on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports.
"The rest will be completed quickly in the coming days," Murat Kurum, Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change Minister, told Anadolu's Editors' Desk in the quake-hit Adiyaman province.
23 Feb 2023; MEMO: The 16th edition of Art Dubai, Middle East's leading international art fair, will take place between 1-5 March in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Anadolu News Agency reports.
The fair will donate 50 per cent of all online ticket sales to earthquake relief efforts in Syria and Turkiye.
The organisation had also donated 25 per cent of ticket sales from its 2022 event to Ukrainian refugees.
23 Feb 2023; MEMO: The Israeli Supreme Court ordered, on Thursday, to appoint a session "as soon as possible" to consider a petition filed against the appointment of the far- right Otzma Yehudit Party leader, Itamar Ben Gvir, as Minister, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed the submission of a response to the petition.
The Israeli public broadcaster, Kan 11, said Netanyahu has delayed for weeks the submission of his response to the petition against Ben- Gvir's appointment.
23 Feb 2023; MEMO: Lebanese Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, called Thursday for a "serious, historic pause to stop the massacre" of the Palestinian people, Anadolu News Agency reported.
This came in a statement published on the Lebanese Parliament website, commenting on the Israeli military operation that killed eleven Palestinians in the city of Nablus in the northern Occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
24 Feb 2023; MEMO: A Tunisian lawyer said yesterday that security forces arrested the veteran leader of the National Salvation Front Izz Al-Din Al-Hazqi.
Dalila Mosaddeq, Al-Hazqi's daughter and lawyer, did not provide any details regarding the circumstances of his arrest.
The National Salvation Front is a coalition of political movements and parties that are opposed to President Kais Saied.
24 Feb 2023; MEMO: Amnesty International yesterday called on Tunisian President Kais Saied to stop the prosecution of civilians in military courts.
24 Feb 2023; MEMO: The head of Israel's National Unity Party, Benny Gantz, yesterday criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for agreeing to transfer some powers over the occupied West Bank from Defence Minister Yoav Gallant to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
24 Feb 2023; MEMO: Shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine started, reports emerged of Afghan special forces – who were fleeing the Taliban – fighting as guns for hire on the Ukrainian side in the battle for Mariupol.
ISTANBUL, Feb 23 (APP): After conducting 17-day search and rescue operation in Adiyaman, the Pakistan Search and Rescue team left for the country here on Thursday night.
Through relentless efforts, the team managed to rescue multiple precious lives.
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