AMMAN, July 27 (NNN-PETRA) – Jordan signed an agreement yesterday, with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) worth 700 million U.S. dollars, to provide support to vulnerable Jordanians and refugees in the country.
Under the agreement, food and cash assistance will be provided to one million vulnerable Jordanians and refugees across the country between 2020-2022.
BAGHDAD, July 27 (NNN-NINA) – Huge explosions on Sunday, hit an ammunition depot, at a military base in southern Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
“It was discovered that the ammunition depot of the federal police exploded over high temperature and poor storage,” said a brief statement by the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC).
Earlier, a JOC statement said, two explosions took place in a depot of weapons and ammunition at the al-Saqr military base, in the south of the capital Baghdad, without giving further details.
TEHRAN, July 27 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s non-oil exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), during the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year, starting Mar 20, rose by eight percent in value year on year, Eghtesadonline reported Sunday.
From Mar 20 to June 20, Iran exported around 3.8 million tonnes of non-oil commodities worth 967 million U.S. dollars to the UAE, said Farzad Piltan, director general of Trade Promotion Organisation of Iran’s Arab-African Affairs Office.
AL BIREH, West Bank (Reuters) - A section of a mosque in the occupied West Bank was set on fire on Monday, and Palestinian officials accused Israeli settlers of being behind the attack.
“The Land of Israel for the People of Israel,” read part of a slogan sprayed in Hebrew on the mosque’s wall, a reference to a biblical, historical and political claim to an area that includes the West Bank.
TEHRAN, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday that the Islamic republic supports peace and stability in Afghanistan.
Mohammad Ebrahim Taheri, special representative of the Iranian foreign minister for Afghan affairs, dismissed the recent remarks by Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, who blamed Iran for "insufficient support" for the Afghan peace process.
JERUSALEM (AP) — In attending his first-ever public protest, 34-year-old Nimrod Gross arrived with the only prop he felt reflected him — the blue-and-white Israeli flag.
The former combat soldier and current tour guide and after-school science teacher had seen his monthly income plunge to around $500 as a result of the harsh economic fallout from the coronavirus. A centrist who shuns politics, but with siblings who supported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he sought a unifying symbol to express his despair.
26 July 2020; MEMO: The Turkish Coast Guard rescued more than 900 asylum seekers in the recent month who were pushed back by the Greek Coast Guard into Turkish territorial waters in the Aegean, reports Anadolu Agency.
Asylum seekers were seeking to cross to Europe with rubber boats to start new lives, especially those fleeing war and persecution.
26 July 2020; MEMO: Tunisia’s Interior Minister Hisham El-Mechishi will form the country’s government, the official news agency announced Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports.
Tunisian President Kais Saied appointed el-Mechishi to form the government, according to the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP).
Having no attachments to a political party, el-Mechishi was not nominated for the prime minister’s seat by any party.
26 July 2020; MEMO: The Israeli military on Friday said its helicopters struck Syrian army targets in response to mortars fired toward the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Reuters reports.
“A number of targets were struck, including SAF observation posts and intelligence collection systems located in SAF bases,” the military said in a statement, referring to the Syrian Armed Forces.
26 July 2020; MEMO: The outgoing naval commander of Israeli Navy’s Haifa base claimed that Hezbollah has plans to attack Israel via sea, i24 News reports.
Brigadier General Gil Aginsky made the accusations in an interview with Israeli outlet Israel Hayom, citing tensions at the Israel-Lebanon border in the north of Israel, where Israel recently ran extensive military drills.
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