ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates defended on Monday a decision by OPEC and its allies to cut oil production, even as an American envoy warned of “economic uncertainty” ahead for the world.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli voters appear to be hopelessly deadlocked as the country heads to elections once again on Tuesday, with opinion polls saying the race is too close to predict.
30 October 2022; MEMO: A 74-year-old Pakistani national has returned home after spending almost two decades without charge in the notorious US-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba.
Saifullah Paracha was reunited with his family yesterday after spending more than 17 years in custody, the foreign ministry announced yesterday.
30 October 2022; MEMO: Saudi Arabia has hosted an event to celebrate the once-banned festival of Halloween, in a historic move for the Land of the Two Holy Mosques as the kingdom looks to implement social reforms intended to modernise the country under de-facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
31 October 2022; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority official in charge of the settlement file in the north of the occupied West Bank has warned of the escalation of settler terrorist attacks against local Palestinians, Al Quds Al Arabi has reported. "There are indications of an escalation of settler attacks, and carrying out terrorist acts against Palestinian citizens and their property," said Ghassan Daghlas.
31 October 2022; MEMO: Jordan has decided to temporarily suspend olive oil imports from Palestine, a senior official at the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday.
Assistant Secretary-General for Marketing and Quality at the Ministry of Agriculture, Hazem Al-Samadi, said that importing olive oil from the Palestinian territories "is currently not allowed because we are in the middle of the local oil production season."
31 October 2022; MEMO: Arab voter turnout is expected to reach 50 per cent in tomorrow's Israeli elections, a new report released by the Israel Democracy Institute has said.
This is higher than the rate of turnout expected by the previous polls carried out two months ago, which reached only 39 per cent.
Haaretz said the turnout rate may help Arab parties pass the electoral threshold and remain in the Knesset.
TEHRAN, Oct 30 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian border guards confiscated a batch of smuggled weapons, while smugglers were trying to move them into the country through the western border, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported yesterday.
Citing Iranian Border Guards Commander, Ahmad Ali Goudarzi, the report said, the country’s security forces, using optical equipment, managed to find the smugglers and seize the weapons, which included 38 pistols, 76 magazines, one sword, and one Kalashnikov rifle bayonet.
ALGIERS, Oct 30 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said here that food security and the Palestinian issue will be on the top agenda of the Arab League Summit due on Nov 1-2.
In his opening remarks at the proceedings of the foreign ministers’ preparatory meeting for the Arab League Summit, Aboul-Gheit urged the Palestinian factions to implement the Algiers Declaration signed two weeks ago in Algiers in a bid to reach real reconciliation.
DUBAI, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, in the clearest sign that security forces may intensify their already fierce crackdown on widespread unrest.
Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police last month, posing one of the boldest challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.
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