TEHRAN, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (UN) said Tehran has sent a technical delegation to Vienna to answer the questions of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about Iran's nuclear program, semi-official Mehr News Agency reported on Thursday.
TEHRAN, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Thursday that the country has built a hypersonic ballistic missile that is capable of penetrating "all missile defense systems."
"The missile has a high velocity and can maneuver both in and out of the Earth's atmosphere," Iran's Press TV network quoted Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the IRGC's Aerospace Division, as saying.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The focus of the UN conference on climate change should be the negotiations to reduce emissions and not an Egyptian activist who is on a hunger and water strike, Egypt’s foreign minister said Thursday.
Asked about the case of Alaa Abdel-Fattah, where prison authorities intervened medically on Thursday after he went on hunger strike over his imprisonment, Sameh Shoukry, who is both foreign minister and the president of this year’s summit, made clear it was not a priority for him as chair of the 27th annual climate talks, known by their acronym COP27.
9 Nov 2022; MEMO: Outgoing Israeli Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, warned Wednesday of rising extremism inside Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports.
"The extremism in society and in the government is what bothers me," Gantz said in statements cited by The Jerusalem Post newspaper.
Opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to form the upcoming government in Israel after his right-wing alliance won last week's legislative elections.
9 Nov 2022; MEMO: Russia secretly provided western weapons seized in Ukraine and hundreds of millions of dollars to Iran in return for over 160 Iranian drones, a report has revealed as Kyiv and its allies continue to criticise Tehran over its assistance to Moscow's invasion.
9 Nov 2022; MEMO: An Egyptian plane carrying 27 tons of medical supplies and vaccines arrived in Beirut on Wednesday as part of efforts to combat a cholera outbreak in Lebanon, Anadolu News Agency reports.
"The supplies will be distributed to hospitals where cholera patients are being treated," Health Minister, Firas Al-Abiad, told a press conference.
Egyptian Ambassador, Yasser Alawi, said the aid plane follows talks between President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati.
10 Nov 2022; MEMO: Iran has executed two men convicted of killing four policemen in 2016 in the province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
The judiciary's Mizan Online website said the two men, Rashid Baluch and Eshaq Askani, were put to death on Tuesday after being convicted of killing four police officers in 2016.
The men were also found guilty of wounding several police officers in 2016, the site added.
10 Nov 2022; MEMO: Qatar has reportedly provided $1 billion to Egypt's Central Bank, as Cairo continues to suffer from an economic crisis, despite having received tens of billions of dollars from Arab States.
According to Bloomberg, sources close to the matter said that the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) deposited the $1 billion into the Egyptian Central Bank amid discussions between the two nations over the QIA acquiring stakes in major Egyptian companies.
10 Nov 2022; MEMO: Turkiye has rejected Israel's request that it deport Hamas leaders living in the country, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday.
Responding to a question from MPs, Cavusoglu said Turkiye does not view Hamas as a terror group and refused to expel the movement's members.
"We did not satisfy any [Israeli] request on Hamas, because we do not perceive Hamas as a terror group," Cavusoglu said.
9 Nov 2022; MEMO: Iran's Army Ground Forces Commander said, on Wednesday, that "rioters" would have no place in the Islamic Republic if the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered a tougher crackdown on nationwide protests, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported, Reuters reports.
"… should he decide to deal with them, rioters will no longer have a place in the country," Brigadier General, Kiumars Heydari said.
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