22 August 2022; MEMO: Israel has postponed a plan to allow Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to fly to Turkiye from the Ramon Airport in southern Israel, a mere day before the first flight was set to proceed.
22 August 2022; MEMO: Lebanon denied on Monday that it has reached an agreement on the demarcation of its maritime border with Israel, Anadolu has reported.
The denial followed a report by Israel's Channel 12 TV on Sunday which claimed that the two countries were close to agreeing a demarcation deal.
22 August 2022; MEMO: We Record has released a new video that appears to show a man being extrajudicially executed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
In the video, the man's hands are handcuffed behind his back and he begs for his life before he is shot at close range and his body rolls over the desert terrain.
We Record told MEMO they think the extrajudicial killing was carried out this month and that another video from July shows the same man surrendering to local forces.
22 August 2022; MEMO: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said yesterday that its Ambassador to Iran, Saif Mohammed Al Zaabi, would return to Tehran "in the coming days", more than six years after the Gulf Arab state downgraded ties with the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported.
The move is in line with UAE efforts to strengthen relations with Iran "to achieve the common interests of the two countries and the wider region", the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
22 August 2022; MEMO: Iran accused the United States, on Monday, of procrastinating in indirect talks aimed at reinstating Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal, and said a prisoner swap with Washington was not linked to the negotiations, Reuters reports.
DAMASCUS, Aug 22 (NNN-SANA) – The U.S. forces sent 137 oil-laden tankers, from oil fields in north-eastern Syria, to its bases in Iraq yesterday, the latest shipment of stolen Syrian oil to be delivered to U.S. bases in Iraq.
The latest shipment was sent in two batches, from oil fields in the north-eastern province of Hasakah at dawn yesterday, with the help of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
With the latest shipment, the U.S. has taken a total of 535 tankers of stolen Syrian oil, since Aug 11.– NNN-SANA
TEHRAN, Aug 22 (NNN-IRNA) – A senior executive of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company said, his country planned to start developing the offshore Esfandiar oilfield in Iran, that is connected to a Saudi oilfield, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported yesterday.
Alireza Mehdizadeh, the company’s CEO, said Saturday, the first phase of the development project, in the Esfandiar field in Iran, which is connected to Saudi Arabia’s Lulu field, will be implemented in the next three years, according to the report.
JERUSALEM, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid told French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday that his country objects to a return to the Iran nuclear deal and would not be bound by it.
"The Prime Minister made clear to the President that Israel opposes a return to the deal and would not be obligated by such an agreement," the PM's office said in a statement, adding that the country "will continue to do everything to prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear capability."
CAIRO, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and visiting President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Sunday underlined the importance of strengthening joint Arab action and Arab unity to cope with challenges facing the Arab region.
The two leaders made the remarks in a meeting at El Alamein, a coastal city in northern Egypt, during which they also exchanged views on both international and regional issues, Egypt's presidential spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement.
BAGHDAD (AP) — A landslide collapsed the ceiling of a Shiite shrine in central Iraq over the weekend and killed at least seven people, including a child, officials said Monday as rescuers continued to search for survivors.
The landslide struck Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine near the holy city of Karbala, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, on Saturday.
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