18 Dec 2022; MEMO: Iran's nuclear agency chief says the country's capacity to enrich uranium has more than doubled "in its entire history", crediting it to a bill passed two years ago, reports Anadolu Agency.
TEHRAN, Dec 18 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, said that, the Americans’ presence in any country has solely resulted in “taking the people’s lives,” according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Making the remarks in an address to a number of people, in the eastern Iranian province of South Khorasan, Raisi noted that, to know about the “Americans’ destructive presence in other countries,” there is no need to read history books, “what has taken place in western Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq as a consequence of the U.S. presence, is right before our eyes.”
BEIRUT, Dec 18 (NNN-NNA) – The levels of food security for refugees in Lebanon are extremely worrisome, said Abdallah AlWardat, World Food Programme (WFP) Representative and Country Director in Lebanon.
AlWardat’s remarks came in a report, released by the United Nations Information Centre on the preliminary findings of the 2022 Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon, showing a continuing sharp decline in living conditions for all Syrian refugees.
CAIRO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Egypt has discovered a large gas field in the Nargis block in the eastern Mediterranean, Petroleum Minister Tarek El Molla said on Thursday.
Evaluation is still ongoing to determine the field's reserves, he said in a briefing to a parliamentary committee.
Nargis is one of four offshore exploration blocks in which Chevron (CVX.N) holds operating interests in Egypt along with Tharwa Petroleum Co, according to Chevron's website.
TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Tehran police chief said on Sunday his forces seized 300 cold weapons, 55 firearms and hunting weapons as well as a shoulder-fired missile during an operation in the Iranian capital on the same day, according to the official news agency IRNA.
Hossein Rahimi made the remarks in an address to reporters on the sidelines of the 61st stage of the police operation dubbed Ra'ad in Tehran to improve security.
TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Iran's minister of communication and information technology said on Sunday the country will launch at least two homegrown satellites into space by March 20, 2023, which is the end of the Iranian calendar year.
Making the remarks in an interview with official news agency IRNA, Issa Zarepour said that in addition to the two communication satellites Nahid 1 and Nahid 2, others are to be launched later.
The two satellites are both produced by the Iranian Space Research Center, with Nahid 1 unveiled in late January 2017.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday deported a Palestinian lawyer and activist to France after claiming he has ties to a banned militant group, drawing a rare condemnation from the French government.
The expulsion of Salah Hammouri underscored the fragile status of Palestinians in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, where most hold revocable residency rights but are not Israeli citizens. It also worsened a brewing diplomatic spat with France, which had repeatedly appealed to Israel not to carry out the expulsion.
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers held a memorial at the Beirut airport on Sunday for an Irish soldier killed by a mob that opened fire last week at two vehicles belonging to the U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
The attack that killed 24 year-old Pvt. Seán Rooney of Newtowncunningham took place near the southern town of Al-Aqbiya on Wednesday night, as he and seven other Irish peacekeepers from U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as UNIFIL, were on their way to the Beirut airport.
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian opposition figures called Sunday for the president’s resignation after disastrous parliamentary elections in which less than 9% of voters cast ballots.
The mass voter disavowal was a dramatic development for the country that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings against autocratic leaders a decade ago — and the only one to emerge from that upheaval with a democratic political system.
CAIRO (AP) — Around midnight in mid-November, Libyan militiamen in two Toyota pickup trucks arrived at a residential building in a neighborhood of the capital of Tripoli. They stormed the house, bringing out a blindfolded man in his 70s.
Their target was former Libyan intelligence agent Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, wanted by the United States for allegedly making the bomb that brought down New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, just days before Christmas in 1988. The attack killed 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground.
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