06 Jan 2023; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Justice Minister announced on Wednesday a plan that will undermine the authority of the country's judicial system, reported The Times of Israel.
Israeli Justice Minister and Likud member Yariv Levin's plan would allow the far-right government to overrule decisions by the Supreme Court and pass it into law with a 61-MK majority.
06 Jan 2023; MEMO: Israeli police said, on Friday, they had arrested two people suspected of vandalising a Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem earlier this week, Reuters reports.
Police said in a statement that extensive damage had been caused to gravestones at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery, calling it an "act of intentional vandalism and defacement."
MANILA, Jan 6 (NNN-PNA) – The unemployment rate in the Philippines declined to 4.2 percent in Nov, compared to the previous month’s record of 4.5 percent, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said today.
PSA data showed 2.18 million Filipinos were out of work in Nov, lower than the 2.24 million recorded in Oct. PSA head, Dennis Mapa, said, the Nov unemployment rate was the lowest rate since Apr, 2005.
According to PSA, the employment rate rose to 95.8 percent, bringing the total employment for Nov to 49.71 million.
AMMAN, Jan 6 (NNN-PETRA) – Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, yesterday, discussed with his Arab counterparts, the latest tensions in Jerusalem, after the Israeli national security minister’s controversial visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
RAMALLAH, Jan 6 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday said, the Palestinians would continue to take legal measures with international legitimacy, to respond to the Israeli government’s violations.
TEHRAN, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The governors of the central banks of Iran and Qatar have called for boosting banking relations between the two countries, Tasnim News Agency reported Friday.
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) made the announcement on Thursday after a meeting between the newly-appointed governor of CBI Mohammad Reza Farzin and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Bandar bin Mohammed bin Saoud Al-Thani in Qatar's capital Doha.
ISTANBUL, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Insufficient rainfall has caused severe drought throughout Türkiye, especially in the highly populated western and northwestern regions, according to data released Thursday.
Rainfall during the Oct. 1, 2022-Jan. 3, 2023 period dropped 31 percent compared to the previous same period across the country, the Turkish State Meteorological Service said.
With a 51.8 percent drop in rainfall compared to seasonal norms, Istanbul, a city of over 16 million residents, was hit the worst among Türkiye's major urban centers.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Khaled Shurrab had been waiting more than half his life to get out of Gaza.
The 27-year-old had never left the coastal enclave, which has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since 2007. He couldn’t find a job — the territory’s youth unemployment rate is over 60%. Like a growing number of Gazans, he packed his life into a suitcase and eventually made it to Turkey, where he set out on a treacherous sea voyage to Greece last October. When his rickety boat went down, his body disappeared into the sea.
05 Jan 2023; MEMO: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday called his Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, and conveyed Ankara's protest and rejection of the Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, provocative act of breaking into Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday, according to a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
05 Jan 2023; MEMO: Iran says it will review France's cultural activities in the country and close down a French research institute in response to a French satirical magazine's caricatures of the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Anadolu News Agency reports.
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