05 April 2022; MEMO: Amnesty International yesterday called on Saudi Arabia to release four Uyghur, including a mother and her 13-year-old daughter, and not send them to China where they could face torture.
05 April 2022; MEMO: The High Committee for the Defense of the Palestinian Refugee Right of Return in Jordan yesterday condemned American and Israeli attempts to "liquidate" the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Quds Press reported.
"The idea to modify the mandate of the UNRWA and merge it within the UN High Commissioner for Refugees coincides with calls and campaigns seeking to delegitimise the international Palestine refugee body," the High Committee said in a statement.
05 April 2022; MEMO: The Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) has revealed that it is planning to bring 200,000 Israeli tourists to Morocco on direct flights from Tel Aviv in 2022, Sama news agency reported yesterday.
Quoting i24, Sama said the number of direct flights between the two countries will rise to eight per week.
05 April 2022; MEMO: Israeli occupation authorities have arrested more than 53,000 Palestinian children since 1967, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs said in a statement yesterday.
Abdul Nasser Ferwaneh, the commission's head of Studies and Documentation Department, said that the Israeli occupation deals with Palestinian children like adults, stating that they are subject to the same torture, investigation and detention conditions.
Kanpur: An alumni of IIT Kanpur Rakesh Gangwal has not only signed a pact with IIT-K to set up a school of Medical Sciences and Technology on the campus, but also donated a sum of Rs100 crore for the purpose.
He will also soon join the Advisory Board of the institution.
While talking to reporters, he said that it was a privilege to be associated with such a noble endeavour with my alma mater.
He further appreciated the institute for producing thousands of leaders across various sectors. It is now paving the way in the healthcare sector.
DOHA (Qatar), April 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva fears that the current situation with the Russia/Ukraine conflict could lead to an explosive situation in many of the poor countries with inflated prices, less jobs and overwhelming debts and called for greater global cooperation.
Speaking at the Doha Forum in Qatar, Georgieva hinted that the current situation evoked the lead-up to the 2011 uprisings known as the Arab Spring, when skyrocketing bread prices fueled anti-government protests across the Middle East.
DUBAI, April 4 (Reuters) - The United States is responsible for the pause in talks between Tehran and world powers in Vienna aimed at reviving their 2015 nuclear deal, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday.
"America is responsible for the halt of these talks ... a deal is very much within reach," Saeed Khatibzadeh told a weekly news conference.
"Washington should make political decision for the deal's revival," he said, adding that Tehran would "not wait forever".
TEHRAN, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Sunday that the United States has by no means any compassion toward Muslim nations in the region, according to the president's official website.
Making the remarks in a phone conversation with his Iraqi counterpart Barham Salih, Raisi said it has become evident that the external power only seeks its own interests and hegemonic goals.
ANKARA, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's annual inflation hit a new record high at 61.14 percent in March, featuring rising energy and food prices, the Turkish Statistical Institute announced on Monday.
The country's consumer prices rose by 5.46 percent month on month in March, according to the data released by the institute.
The highest annual price increase was in transport with 99.12 percent, followed by foods and non-alcoholic beverages with 70.33 percent, and furnishings and household equipment with 69.26 percent, respectively.
ALEPPO, Syria, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Amid the ruins in the old city of Aleppo, energetic construction workers are building and fixing the famous walled ancient marketplace, hoping to restore business life in the area to its former glory.
During Syria's protracted war, many sections of the al-Madina Souq, the world's largest covered historic market, were destroyed, either ruined or burnt.
The reconstruction of the ancient market started in late 2018, about two years after the government regained control of the eastern part of Aleppo city.
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