05 Jan 2023; MEMO: A 16-year-old Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli Occupation Forces this morning in the northern Occupied West Bank city of Nablus, reported Wafa news agency.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Amer Abu Zaytoon, was killed following an Israeli military raid that resulted in him being shot in the head.
05 Jan 2023; MEMO: Russia's Space Corporation, on Thursday, said it signed memorandums with two Iranian companies on launch services, Anadolu News Agency reports.
"As a result of international events, conferences and exhibitions organised with the participation of Roscosmos and enterprises of the rocket and space industry … Memorandums of cooperation in the field of launch services were signed with the Iranian companies SAHAB and SpaceOmid", a Roscosmos statement said.
05 Jan 2023; MEMO: An Israeli drone fell out of the sky onto West Bank territory yesterday, in the latest such incident to take place in recent months.
In an announcement by the Israeli military yesterday, it confirmed that an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of a Skylark model crashed and fell in the northern West Bank for unknown reasons, while it was on a reconnaissance mission.
05 Jan 2023; MEMO: Lebanon's military tribunal, on Thursday, charged seven people over an attack last month that killed one Irish soldier serving in a United Nations peacekeeping force, three Lebanese judicial sources told Reuters.
On 15 December, a vehicle driven by troops from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was fired on as it travelled in southern Lebanon, Reuters reports.
05 Jan 2023; MEMO: Sales of Turkish exports hit a record high last year as the country also benefitted from closer economic ties to Russia, the Financial Times reports.
According to the report, Turkiye recorded a 13 per cent rise in exports by value, with sales hitting $254bn in 2022, said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country's President, in a televised speech on Monday.
Last December, Turkiye's inflation slowed sharply.
RAMALLAH/GAZA, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said that releasing all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails and prisons "is a priority for the Palestinian leadership."
Abbas made the remarks after the release of Karim Younis, a 65-year-old Palestinian from Israel who spent 40 years in Israeli jails, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
RABAT, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Moroccan navy rescued 270 Spain-bound migrants in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Dec. 24, 2022 to Jan. 4, official news agency MAP reported on Thursday.
The migrants were from sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen and Syria, the agency quoted a military source as saying.
They have attempted dangerous crossings and encountered problems while boarding several makeshift boats, kayaks, jet skis, and even swimming, it added.
ANKARA, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday urged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to take "concrete steps" against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria, Türkiye's presidential office said in a statement.
Erdogan told Putin in a phone call that "concrete steps should now be taken to eradicate the terrorist organization YPG from Türkiye's border regions, especially from Tal Rifaat and Manbij" in northern Syria, the statement said.
04 Jan 2023; MEMO: The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency session to discuss the desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque by far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The session was called for by the UAE and China on behalf of the Palestinian and Jordanian UN missions, and could take place tomorrow, a diplomat told the Times of Israel.
04 Jan 2023; MEMO: The Syrian regime, on Monday, devalued its currency for the second time in under four months, as the country's economic situation continues to drastically deteriorate.
In a statement on Monday, Syria's Central Bank lowered the official exchange rate to 4,522 Syrian pounds against the US dollar, down from the previous official rate of 3,015 pounds to the dollar.
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