27 October 2022; MEMO: Speaking Israeli President Isaac Herzog yesterday, US President Joe Biden once again said: "If there were not an Israel, we'd have to invent one."
He added that "the irontad [sic]– -clad commitment the United States has to Israel based on our principles, our ideas, our values. They're the same values."
27 October 2022; MEMO: Several buses of Syrian refugee families were repatriated Wednesday morning from different areas in Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports.
According to the NNA, the intelligence branch of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF) accompanied a bus Wednesday morning from Nabatieh to the General Security branch at the Masnaa border crossing on the Lebanese-Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley.
27 October 2022; MEMO: Turkiye's competition authority yesterday imposed fines of 346.72 million lira ($18.63 million) on Meta platforms, formerly known as Facebook, for its violation of the country's competition law, news agencies reported.
In a statement, the Turkish Competition Board said it found that Meta obstructed its competitors operating in social network services and online advertising markets as it merged data collected through Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
27 October 2022; MEMO: Saudi Airlines has become the first in the Middle East and North Africa to invest in sustainable air transport, with plans to purchase 100 fully electric aircraft from Germany's Liliam.
The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Liliam, with the aim of developing and operating the proposed eVTOL system, an all-electric vertical take-off and landing system, throughout the kingdom.
27 October 2022; MEMO: Israeli warplanes bombed targets in the vicinity of the Syrian capital, Damascus, this morning, in the third such attack over the past two days.
Kanpur: The IIT staff and students have been put on high alert following reports of a leopard being sighted on campus.
The institute's security personnel reported seeing a leopard on Wednesday close to the IIT's airstrip.
Soon after, the residents of the institute were urged to exercise caution. The institute administration has requested assistance from the Forest Department and alerting them of this development.
A leopard has been seen on campus, this message from the institute deputy director Prof A. Ganesh. It caused panic to the community.
RIYADH, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Former U.S. treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Wednesday he believed the United States was in a recession and said this would continue.
Speaking at Riyadh's flagship investment conference FII, he said: "I think we'll probably see a peak of 4.5% 10-year rates."
"I think you are going to see inflation in the U.S. begin to come under control, it will probably be a two-year period," he added.
He said the U.S. and China must learn to co-exist. He added that the Middle East's economic issues need to be dealt with regionally.
RIYADH, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia decided to be the "maturer guys" in a spat with the United States over oil supplies, the kingdom's energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Tuesday.
The decision by the OPEC+ oil producer group led by Saudi Arabia this month to cut oil output targets unleashed a war of words between the White House and Riyadh ahead of the kingdom's Future Investment Initiative (FII) forum, which drew top U.S. business executives.
DUBAI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces opened fire at mourners who gathered in Mahsa Amini's Kurdish home town of Saqez to mark 40 days since she died in police custody, a witness said on Wednesday, while state media said people at the cemetery had clashed with riot police.
"The riot police shot mourners who gathered at the cemetery for Mahsa's memorial ceremony ... dozens have been arrested," the witness said. Iranian authorities were not available to comment.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Archaeologists in northern Iraq last week unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees from the Assyrian Empire, an archaeologist said Wednesday.
The carvings on marble slabs were discovered by a team of experts in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, who have been working to restore the site of the ancient Mashki Gate, which was bulldozed by Islamic State group militants in 2016.
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