22 Sep 2020; MEMO: Jordan’s moderate Islamist opposition, Islamic Action Front, announced yesterday that it will run in the parliamentary elections slated for 10 November, Anadolu reported.
The announcement came in a press conference in the capital Amman by the party’s Deputy Secretary-General, Wael Al-Sakka.
22 Sep 2020; MEMO: Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said yesterday that the US is imposing a political, economic and financial siege on the Palestinian leadership, Anadolu reported.
At the beginning of his weekly cabinet meeting, Shtayyeh said US President Donald Trump had stopped American assistance for the Palestinians and prevented some Arab states from paying funding they had pledged.
22 Sep 2020; MEMO: A Jordanian court has sentenced Walid Al-Kurdi, the husband of King Abdullah’s aunt, to nine years in prison and issued a fine of nine million dinars ($12.7 million), local media reported yesterday.
Al-Kurdi, the husband of Princess Basma Bint Talal, is a former president of the Phosphate Company. He has been living in London since 2013.
22 Sep 2020; MEMO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said that France must hand over the remains of Algerian resistance martyrs and recognise its colonial crimes, stressing that the remains that Algeria received earlier this year were only a first step.
22 Sep 2020; MEMO: As Ankara and Athens prepare for talks, Germany has called on Greece to withdraw its army from Aegean Sea islands, near Turkey, Greek newspaper ESTIA reported on Friday.
Speaking about the visit of the German Ambassador Ernst Reichel to the Greek parliament on Thursday, the newspaper said: “It was a real surprise.”
Canberra, Sep 22 (AP/PTI) An Australian state leader on Tuesday described an Israeli court decision to extradite a former teacher wanted in Australia on charges of molesting children as a victory for abuse victims.
Daniel Andrews is premier of Victoria state where Malka Leifer is accused of molesting three sisters Dassi Erlich, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper while they were students at a Melbourne ultra-Orthodox school.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia, the most powerful Arab nation and home to Islam’s holiest sites, has made its official position on the region’s longest-running conflict clear: Full ties between the kingdom and Israel can only happen when peace is reached with the Palestinians.
Yet state-backed Saudi media and clerics are signaling change is already underway with Israel — something that can only happen under the directives of the country’s powerful heir, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (NNN-IRNA) – Spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Saeed Khatibzadeh, urged the United States to “return to the global community” and perform its duties.
“The world has reached nothing but insecurity, war and instability with U.S. actions,” Khatibzadeh said, in his weekly press briefing.
The Iranian spokesman was commenting on remarks made by U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who claimed that “the United States is returning virtually all United Nations sanctions on Iran.”
DAMASCUS, Sept 21 (NNN-SANA) – Five pro-government fighters were killed in a blast, in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour in Syria, a war monitor reported.
The five fighters were killed by a landmine explosion, that targeted their vehicle a day earlier, in a desert region in the western countryside of Deir al-Zour, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Seven energy ministers will sign the charter of a new Middle East energy forum that will promote natural gas exports from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe and other markets, Israeli energy officials said on Monday.
“The East Mediterranean Gas Forum, which until now has been a stage for discussions only, is in fact becoming a real international organization,” said Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz.
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