12 July 2020; MEMO: Separate militia groups, one backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the other backed by Saudi Arabia, have clashed in Yemen, where both countries are part of a coalition aiming to end the military coup in war-torn Yemen, Anadolu Agency reported on Friday.
12 July 2020; MEMO: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Saturday for big gatherings such as weddings and wakes to be banned to stem a rise in coronavirus infections, but insisted the country’s economy had to stay open.
Shortly after Rouhani’s televised speech, a police official in Tehran announced the closure of all wedding and mourning venues in the capital until further notice.
Iran has been gradually relaxing its lockdown since mid-April but has recently reported a sharp rise in the infection rate.
12 July 2020; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has voiced his anger several times as Nadav Argaman, head of Shin Bet, concealed information about Iran’s hacking of Defence Minister Benny Gantz’s mobile phone, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed on Friday.
Netanyahu was angry with Argaman because the latter had not briefed him nor told the public about the hacking.
11 July 2020; MEMO: A court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced an Omani man to life imprisonment in May this year based on a seriously unfair trial, the UK-based Human Rights Watch revealed today.
11 July 2020; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been prevented from appointing police and judicial officials due to his corruption trial, Anadolu Agency reported.
On Thursday, the Israeli government’s legal adviser, Avichai Mandelblit, informed Netanyahu of the ban on appointing senior officials in the judiciary and police.
11 July 2020; MEMO: After completing all preparations, Turkey will open Hagia Sophia for worship on July 24 at Friday prayer, the Turkish president said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports.
In an address to the nation, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered his remarks on the new status of Hagia Sophia — which was used as a museum for the past decades but will serve as a mosque following a recently adopted decree on Friday.
11 July 2020; MEMO: Ethiopia’s “very strict” stance on some of the technical and legal points relating to the Renaissance Dam talks greatly reduces the chance of agreement, Egypt’s Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced on Thursday.
11 July 2020; MEMO: Turkish presidency Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin denied the fact that his country is following a “[Muslim] Brotherhood” or “Neo- Ottoman” approach in its policies, denouncing the “black propaganda” launched by Gulf countries against Ankara.
11 July 2020; MEMO: Iraqi police have found the body of the former goalkeeper of the Olympic football team, Karrar Ibrahim, strangled inside his car, Iraqi media announced on Thursday.
An Iraqi source disclosed that the security forces found Ibrahim’s body in his car in the Saadoun area, in the centre of the capital of Baghdad.
DAMASCUS, July 11 (NNN-SANA) – The rebels in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, shot down a Russian reconnaissance drone amid intense battles on Friday, a war monitor reported.
The rebels of the National Front group, targeted a Russian reconnaissance drone with anti-aircraft missiles, southeast of Idlib, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The UK-based watchdog group said, the rebels fired at Syrian military positions, in areas in the southern countryside of Idlib, amid intense battles with the Syrian army in that part of the country.
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