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30 June 2022; MEMO: Officials from the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are currently negotiating on a deal regarding the ownership of islands in the Red Sea, in a move which could further ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv.

30 June 2022; MEMO: British Shell is set to sign a major agreement with Qatar by taking a stake in a $29 billion project to boost Qatar's exports of liquefied natural gas, just as Europe races to shore up new supplies of the fuel, Bloomberg reports.

According to the report, the move comes just as Europe races to shore up new supplies of the fuel.

29 June 2022; MEMO: Indirect talks between Iran and the US to revive the 2015 nuclear deal ended in the Qatari capital, Doha, without a result, Iran's semi-official Tasnim News reported.

Tasnim, citing sources, said the talks mediated by the EU ended, for now, blaming the cessation of the talks on the US insistence on restoring the 2015 accord without giving guarantees of "economic benefits" to Iran, Anadolu News Agency reports.

29 June 2022; MEMO: Turkiye's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticised the United States for delaying the sales of F-16 fighter jets and for its continued support to the YPG in northern Syria, vowing that he will bring these issues to the attention of US President Joe Biden when they meet in Madrid on the sidelines of the NATO Summit, Reuters reports.

According to the report, Biden and Erdogan discussed bilateral issues and some regional matters, including F-16 jets.

29 June 2022; MEMO: Unilever, on Wednesday, sold its Ben & Jerry's ice cream business in Israel to its local licensee for an undisclosed sum, aiming to smooth over a potentially damaging diplomatic row, Reuters reports.

The deal comes after the US ice cream brand announced last year it would stop marketing products in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying that selling there was "inconsistent" with its values.

29 June 2022; MEMO: Saudi Arabia's population has decreased by at least 2.6 per cent over the past two years, due to the significant amount of expatriate workers who left the Kingdom throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a report published today by the Kingdom's General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), it stated that the country's population in the middle of last year was 34.1 million, down from 35 million in the middle of 2020.

Kanpur:  Thursday remains relatively a day of solace from the intense heat and humid weather in June.

A mainly cloudy sky prevails and sparse rains went on with the temperature going at a lower level.

The month that ends today has brought only troubles due to the hot weather. The residents of the area except for tolerable weather.

Though power cuts in the Jajmau area kept the residents disturbed for the whole day, the pleasant climate did not make them think of interruptions in the power supply. 

30 June 2022; MEMO: Israel will seek US President Joe Biden's permission to sell the Iron Beam defence system to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, i24 News reported yesterday.

The news website reported that Israel wanted to sell its laser defence technology to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but it is waiting for Biden's visit to ask him to okay the measure.

29 June 2022; MEMO: Hotel operator, Accor, is recruiting 12,000 temporary overseas employees to operate 65,000 empty rooms in apartments and homes in Qatar as temporary fan housing for the 2022 soccer World Cup, its Chairman and CEO, Sébastien Bazin, told Reuters.

Qatar is working to avoid an accommodation shortage during the tournament and has hired Accor, Europe's largest hotel operator, to manage the temporary operation.

27 June 2022; MEMO: QatarEnergy has joined the "Aiming for Zero Methane Emissions Initiative", an industry-led initiative that aims to reach near zero methane emissions from operated oil and gas assets by 2030, Reuters reports.