30 Oct 2020; MEMO: Israel will impose sanctions and penalties on Palestinian banks which process payments from the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the families of Palestinians who have spent time in Israeli jails, lsraeli media reported.
30 Oct 2020; MEMO: France has been accused of spreading “cultural racism and hatred” by Turkish officials who have vowed to take legal action against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in the latest round of the bitter row between Paris and Ankara.
30 Oct 2020; MEMO: Sudan’s transitional government has stripped thousands of foreigners, including Syrians, from their naturalised Sudanese citizenship, Erm News reported yesterday.
In an official statement, the government said that the foreigners had acquired the Sudanese nationality in “illegitimate ways during the era of the ousted President Omar Al-Bashir.”
RAMALLAH, Oct 29 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, called on UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to hold urgent consultations on convening an international peace conference.
Abbas sent Guterres a letter, asking him to coordinate with the Quartet on the Middle East and the UN Security Council, to hold the conference.
The letter called on the majority of the council’s superpowers, “to start preparing at the beginning of next year, for an international conference for peace in the Middle East.”
ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) - COVID-19 cases are accelerating in some parts of Africa and governments should step up preparations for a second wave, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
Over the past four week, cases have increased by 45% per week on average in Kenya, by 19% in Democratic Republic of Congo and by 8% in Egypt, the African Union-run organisation’s head John Nkengasong said.
“The time to prepare for a second wave is truly now,” he said, urging governments “not to get into prevention fatigue mode.”
Tehran, Oct 29, IRNA – Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that certain Arab countries' normalization of relations with the Zionist regime will not last long and that its disgrace will stay with them in the history.
The Iranian parliament speaker made the remarks addressing the 34th International Islamic Unity Conference on Thursday via video conference.
29 Oct 2020; MEMO: Iranian authorities have proposed a plan to build the largest commercial port in the city of Jask, east of the Strait of Hormuz, expecting it to become an economic and commercial centre within ten years, RT reported on Wednesday.
General Fereydoun Hemmati, governor of Hormozgan, announced that the initial proposal was submitted, and decisions were immediately taken in coordination with the Ministry of Roads, Ports and Maritime Organisation.
29 Oct 2020; MEMO: Three Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike along with Maher Al-Akhras, who has abstained from food for 95 days, in protest against illegal Israeli measures against them, the Palestine Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported yesterday.
29 Oct 2020; MEMO: Jordan is reported to have granted permission for the establishment of the Saudi-Jordanian Investment Fund.
The fund has the right to own, develop, operate, manage and exploit certain specific projects worth at least $5 billion.
The projects include constructing the national railway system which would connect the Jordanian capital, Amman, with the port city of Aqaba.
29 Oct 2020; MEMO: Seven blocs in the Algerian parliament yesterday called on international human rights organisations to prosecute France over its incitement against Islam and insults against Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Anadolu news agency reported.
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