09 Dec 2022; MEMO: Saudi Arabia and the UAE announced on Thursday the success of their efforts to mediate the exchange of two prisoners between the United States and Russia, according to a press statement issued jointly by the two Arab Gulf states' foreign ministries.
09 Dec 2022; MEMO: The overall annual inflation rate in Egypt jumped to 19.2 per cent last month, its highest level since November 2017, according to data from the state-run Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).
Data released by CAPMAS on Thursday shows that the country's monthly inflation rate was 2.5 per cent in November.
RIYADH, Dec 8 (NNN-SPA) – The Saudi cabinet approved yesterday, the state budget, with a surplus of 16 billion Saudi riyals (4.26 billion U.S. dollars).
The budget was approved during a cabinet session, led by Saudi Arabian King, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
The budget includes revenues of 1.13 trillion riyals and spending of 1.114 trillion riyals.
BAGHDAD, Dec 8 (NNN-NINA) – Six Daesh militants were killed yesterday, in an airstrike, in a mountainous area, in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, the Iraqi military said.
Acting on intelligence reports, a force from the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), surrounded, at dawn, a tunnel used by the militants as a hideout, in the Himreen mountain range, in the northern part of Diyala Province, a CTS statement said.
Later on, Iraqi fighter jets were called in for an airstrike that destroyed the hideout and killed six militants inside, the statement added.
AMMAN, Dec 8 (NNN-PETRA) – The foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, held a meeting yesterday in the Jordanian capital to discuss ways to boost the trilateral cooperation.
During their meeting in Amman, Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein and Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, looked into ways to enhance cooperation and increase coordination mechanisms in the political, economic, commercial, industrial, security and other fields, according to a joint statement issued by Jordan’s Foreign Ministry.
DUBAI, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Iran hanged a man on Thursday convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said, the first such execution over recent anti-government unrest.
Nationwide protests that erupted after the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 represent one of the biggest challenges to the Islamic Republic since its establishment in 1979.
RIYADH, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and China showcased deepening ties with a series of strategic deals on Thursday during a visit by President Xi Jinping, including one with tech giant Huawei, whose growing foray into the Gulf region has raised U.S. security concerns.
King Salman signed a "comprehensive strategic partnership agreement" with Xi, who received a lavish welcome in a country forging new global partnerships beyond the West.
TEHRAN, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani condemned on Thursday the move by the French satellite operator Eutelsat to take Iran's Press TV network off air, noting the move reveals the "true face" of freedom of expression in the West.
Kanaani made the remarks in a post on his Twitter account after it was reported on Wednesday that Eutelsat had informed Press TV of its plan to remove the 24-hour Tehran-based English language network from its list of channels.
DAMASCUS, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said here on Wednesday that the U.S.-led Western sanctions on Syria shouldn't block humanitarian assistance.
Stressing 90 percent of Syrians live in poverty, Pedersen told reporters that he had repeated his demand to the United Nations Security Council a day earlier that the sanctions imposed on Syria should not affect humanitarian assistance.
07 Dec 2022; MEMO: Iran's President, Ebrahim Raisi, said Wednesday that protesters will be heard by the government amid protests over the death of a young woman in police custody, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Speaking at a function at Tehran University to mark the annual Students Day, Raisi said his government deems dialogue with university students useful and stressed that everyone will be heard, including those with "opposite views".
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