DOHA, Qatar (AP) — In a dusty neighborhood on the outskirts of Qatar’s capital, guards stand duty at a gated compound ringed with razor wire, carefully checking passports and permits before allowing anyone inside. But this isn’t a prison or a high-security area associated with the ongoing World Cup.
It’s the liquor store.
04 Dec 2022; MEMO: Iranian state media has reported that construction has begun on a new nuclear power plant in the country's south western province of Khuzestan. The 300-megawatt plant known as Karun will be situated along the river sharing the same name, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced yesterday.
05 Dec 2022; MEMO: Dozens of people have taken part in a protest in the southern Syrian city of As-Suwayda against the deteriorating living conditions including frequent power outages, water supply cuts and rising fuel and food prices, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights (SOHR) said.
04 Dec 2022; MEMO: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said Turkiye will complete the 30-kilometer-deep (18.6-mile) security strip along its southern border, reports Anadolu Agency.
Speaking at a meeting in southern Sanliurfa province, Erdogan said that attacks will not deter the country from its determined stance on securing its southern border.
05 Dec 2022; MEMO: Iran has denied scrapping the country's so-called "morality police" after Public Prosecutor, Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri, indicated that the controversial office "had been closed" following months of protests.
In statements on Saturday, Montazeri stressed that the morality force "has nothing to do" with the country's judiciary, but the judiciary "continues to monitor behavioural actions at the community level."
05 Dec 2022; MEMO: The heads of more than 50 municipalities in Israel have protested against a role belonging to the Ministry of Education being handed to a far-right Knesset Member and his party. According to the Jerusalem Post, the "rebellious" municipalities will self-fund the plans that will be affected by handing the external programme unit to Avi Maoz MK of the far-right Noam Party.
05 Dec 2022; MEMO: Former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani yesterday warned that a new Palestinian intifada may erupt and this time it would be "fiercer than previous one which erupted 20 years ago."
He said that the increasing "brutal" Israeli practices against Palestinians could be the trigger of the new intifada.
05 Dec 2022; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority (PA) has asked the international community to deal with the Israeli occupation state as an "apartheid regime", Wafa news agency reported yesterday.
In a statement, the PA's Foreign Ministry said: "The occupying state is not only perpetuating the occupation, but is also aspiring to annex more areas of the occupied West Bank through a long series of expansionist colonial measures and statements by far-right leaders."
TEL AVIV, December 4. /TASS/: Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has flown out to Bahrain on the first state visit in history, the presidential administration reported.
"Herzog has flown out to Bahrain on a state visit, the first one for an Israeli president in history," its statement said.
TEHRAN, Dec 4 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran began yesterday, the construction of a new nuclear power plant, in its south-western province of Khuzestan, Nour news agency reported.
Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, and some local officials witnessed the start of construction of the 300-megawatt Karoon nuclear power plant, which will install a pressurised light water reactor that uses 4-percent enriched uranium oxide as fuel.
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