12 Aug 2020; MEMO: The number of coronavirus cases in Israel has risen to 85,354 since March, the Health Ministry revealed on Tuesday.
According to Israel Hayom, the ministry said that there were 24,608 active or symptomatic cases in Israel as of yesterday morning, 256 of whom were identified after midnight.
12 Aug 2020; MEMO: The Arab League requires “profound reforms”, the Speaker of the Moroccan Parliament, Habib Al-Malki, said yesterday.
“The Arab world’s current conditions are not well,” Al-Malki told Palestine Today, stressing that the Arab League needed “deep reforms in order to meet the requirements of the current situation.”
12 Aug 2020; MEMO: Saudi authorities announced on Monday the arrest of Saudi citizens including a member of the Shura Council, a former judge, a notary, and a number of retired officers, as a result of their alleged involvement in several corruption cases.
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted an official in the Control and Anti-Corruption Authority as saying that “the authority has lately initiated (218) criminal cases.”
12 Aug 2020; MEMO: Iran has threatened to respond appropriately and firmly if the arms embargo that has been imposed on it since 2015 is extended. According to government spokesman Ali Rabiei, any resolution that violates UN Security Council Resolution 2231 would be unacceptable and lack compliance with international law.
12 Aug 2020; MEMO: Saudi giant, Aramco, has raised its domestic gasoline prices for August, state TV reported yesterday.
In July, the state-owned company increased the price of the 91 octane gasoline grade from 1.29 ($0.34) to 1.43 riyals ($0.38) per litre and the price of the 95 octane grade from 1.44 riyals ($0.38) to 1.60 riyals ($0.43) per litre.
12 Aug 2020; MEMO: Saudi Arabia has ended a loan and oil supply to Pakistan due to the South Asian nation’s criticism that the Saudi-led Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is not doing enough to pressure India on the Kashmir issue, marking a new milestone in the deteriorating relations between the two allies.
TRIPOLI, Aug 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 23 illegal immigrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast.
“Today, 23 migrants, among them two women and one child were returned to Libya by the coast guard,” IOM tweeted.
“IOM staff who were onsite provided emergency assistance. More than 7,000 migrants were returned to Libya so far this year,” IOM said.
BAGHDAD, Aug 12 (NNN-NINA) – A Katyusha rocket landed on Tuesday night, in the heavily fortified Green Zone, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, without causing casualties, the Iraqi military said.
The attack took place in the evening, when a rocket fired from the abandoned military base of al-Rashid, in southeastern Baghdad, landed near the suspension bridge in the zone, which houses some of the main Iraqi government offices and the U.S. embassy, the media office of the Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
TEHRAN, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Intelligence Ministry has disbanded five spying teams connected with foreign espionage services and arrested a number of people in this regard, Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday.
The arrested people "had plans to spy on Iran's nuclear, political, economic, military and infrastructural projects for the U.S. CIA, Israeli Mossad, and the spying services of a number of European countries by employing complicated and diverse intelligence methods," Tasnim quoted an unnamed Iranian Intelligence Ministry official as saying.
BEIRUT, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese President Michel Aoun vowed on Tuesday to continue investigations into the explosions that rocked Beirut on Aug. 4, killing 171 people and wounding around 6,000 others.
"I will not remain silent nor will I rest until we reveal all the facts about these explosions; referring the explosions to the Supreme Judicial Council is the first step in this direction," Aoun said in a statement.
Primary information reveals that ammonium nitrate stored since 2014 in warehouse No. 12 at Port of Beirut may have caused the explosions in Beirut.
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