21 Jan 2023; MEMO: Turkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated that Greece is violating the Treaty of Lausanne as it is arming the Aegean islands with demilitarised status.
21 Jan 2023; MEMO: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al-Saud announced on Thursday that there would be no normalisation of ties with Israel without a Palestinian state, news agencies reported.
"We have said consistently that we believe normalisation with Israel is something that is very much in the interest of the region," he told Bloomberg TV during an interview held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
RAMALLAH, Jan 20 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday called on the U.S. government to intervene, to stop the Israeli new government’s measures against the Palestinians, before its too late.
Abbas made the remarks, during a meeting held at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, with U.S. National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan.
While calling on the U.S. to intervene to stop what he termed as “the Israeli government’s extremist measures,” Abbas accused Israel of destroying the remaining chances for peace and stability in the region.
19 Jan 2023; MEMO: The Lebanese army prevented, on Wednesday, an Israeli army bulldozer from completing excavation work after breaching the "technical fence" that separates Lebanon from Israel, Anadolu news agency reported, citing Lebanon's official news agency.
20 Jan 2023; MEMO: Israel's Chief Rabbi has given a kosher stamp of approval this week to a company looking to sell steak grown from cow cells – while effectively taking the animal itself out of the equation, Reuters reports.
Cultivated meat, grown from animal cells in a lab or manufacturing plant, has been getting a lot of attention as a way to side-step the environmental toll of the meat industry and address concerns over animal welfare.
20 Jan 2023; MEMO: US Vice President, Kamala Harris, affirmed, on Wednesday, her country's commitment to preserving the United Arab Emirates (UAE) security.
This came during a phone call with UAE President, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, during which the two sides discussed regional issues, according to the Emirates News Agency (WAM).
20 Jan 2023; MEMO: A Jordanian Court has ordered the Israeli embassy in Amman to pay $500,000 to Maher Fares Ibrahim, a Jordanian driver who had been shot, along with two Jordanians, by an embassy guard in 2017, local media outlets reported.
According to media reports, Ibrahim has filed a lawsuit against the Israeli embassy in Amman, demanding compensation for material and moral damages sustained following his injury by the Israeli embassy guard.
20 Jan 2023; MEMO: The Lebanese parliament held a session on Thursday in which it completed its eleventh attempt to elect a new president for the country but once again failed to accomplish the task.
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri did not set a new date for the next session.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati continues to head a caretaker government amid political and constitutional problems as the president position remains vacant.
20 Jan 2023; MEMO: UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, called on the Israeli government to "fulfil its international obligations to ensure Palestinians can have safe access to education."
Writing on her official Twitter account, Hastings commented on the Israeli High Court's rejection of a petition to stop the demolition of the Khashm al-Karm Elementary School in Badia, in the West Bank city of Hebron.
BEIRUT, Jan 19 (NNN-NNA) – About 37 percent of Lebanese residents and Syrian refugees in Lebanon, or about 1.98 million of them, face “severe food insecurity,” UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Imran Riza, said yesterday.
He made the remarks at a conference held in Beirut, to discuss a UN study about food insecurity in Lebanon.
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