26 Nov 2020; MEMO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that his country expects the administration of President-elect Joe Biden to "explicitly" condemn its predecessor's "anti-human rights and terroristic" policies against Iran and make up for the defective politics that the previous government had carried out for four years, Russia Today reported.
26 Nov 2020; MEMO: Head of the Tunisian Ennahda Movement Rached Ghannouchi has announced that he respects the movement's internal law that prevents him from running for another mandate.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, he stated: "It is my duty to respect the internal regulations of Ennahda, and I am doing so by respecting and adhering to Chapter 31 and all articles of the basic law."
26 Nov 2020; MEMO: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has suspended issuing travel and work visas for citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Somalia, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
26 Nov 2020; MEMO: Algeria has signed a contract to buy 14 Russian Sukhoi Su-57 bombers as the arms race with its neighbour Morocco intensifies, a Moroccan news site reported.
Media outlets quoted Russia's Sputnik as saying that the government of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had bought the fighter aircrafts from Russia for nearly $2 billion.
Tehran, Nov 26 (AP-PTI) Iran has freed a British-Australian academic who had been detained in the country for over two years in exchange for three Iranians held abroad, state TV announced.
The television report on Wednesday was scant on detail, saying only that the three Iranians freed in the swap had been imprisoned for trying to bypass sanctions on Iran.
CAIRO, November 26. /TASS/: Russian Ambassador to Egypt Georgy Borisenko has issued an open letter to the Egyptian daily Al-Shorouq to respond to a critical article by its editor-in-chief Emad El Deen Hussein entitled A New Pause with the Russian Friend.
The open letter was posted on the Russian embassy’s Facebook account on Wednesday.
RAMALLAH, Nov 26 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Ishtaye, called on the international community to recognise the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders.
“The international community is required to break the status quo imposed by Israel, by recognising the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital,” Ishtaye said, in a press statement.
JERUSALEM, Nov 26 (NNN-MA’AN) – Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian man yesterday, whom they alleged, tried to carry out a car-ramming attack against security forces, outside Jerusalem, Israeli authorities said.
The incident took place at the az-Za’ayyem checkpoint, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said, the suspect arrived at the checkpoint with his car in the afternoon. During a routine security check, he “drove towards border police officers that were on guard.”
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s economy could grow 4.4% next year if U.S. President-elect Joe Biden lifts sanctions that have contributed to a deep three-year recession, although the COVID-19 crisis could limit foreign investment, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said.
Biden’s victory in the Nov. 3 U.S. election has raised chances that the United States could rejoin a deal Iran reached with world powers in 2015, under which sanctions were lifted in return for curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme.
ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court handed down dozens of life sentences on Thursday for some of the nearly 500 defendants, including army commanders and pilots, accused of leading a 2016 coup attempt from an air base near the capital Ankara.
More than 250 people were killed on July 15, 2016, when rogue soldiers commandeered warplanes, helicopters and tanks and sought to take control of state institutions and overthrow the government of President Tayyip Erdogan.
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