01 July 2020; MEMO: Somalia has rejected as “ridiculous” an offer made by the UAE for the African state to join the war in Yemen in return for financial incentives, the country’s foreign minister has revealed.
01 July 2020; MEMO: The Lebanese government on Tuesday raised the price of a 900-gramme loaf of partially subsidised bread to 2,000 pounds from its pre-October-crisis price of 1,500 pounds.
The pound, which is officially pegged at 1,500 to the dollar, has lost over 80% of its value since October and is now trading at nearly 9,000 to the dollar on the black market after sharp falls in recent days.
01 July 2020; MEMO: The Egyptian government has encouraged women to delay their pregnancies due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health issued the statement yesterday calling on women to avoid getting pregnant as it may weaken their immune system. Adding that new discoveries have been made which link the coronavirus to blood clots which could affect the placenta and the nutrition of the foetus.
01 July 2020; MEMO: Iran’s appeals court has confirmed a five-year prison sentence for Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah on security charges, the judiciary’s official Mizan news agency reported on Tuesday.
Adelkhah was sentenced in May to a total of six years in prison. She denied the charges and her lawyer said at the time that she would appeal against the sentence.
TEHRAN, July 1 (NNN-IRNA) – At least 19 people were killed, in an explosion at a clinic, in the northern district of Iran’s capital Tehran, on Tuesday, said Jalal Maleki, spokesman for the Firefighting Organisation of Tehran.
Maleki told the media that, 15 of the dead were women and four were men.
In the explosion, six other people were injured, he said.
Also, 20 people who were trapped in the building at the time of the explosion were rescued by firefighters, he added.
ANKARA, July 1 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey announced that, the leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran will hold an Astana summit today via teleconference, as part of their efforts to end the conflict in Syria.
“The 6th Tripartite Summit Meeting in Astana format, will be held on July 1, 2020, via video-conference with the participation of our president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of the Republic of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, and the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin,” the Turkish presidency said in a written statement.
30 June 2020; MEMO: Two Turkish energy companies signed an agreement for the development and construction of a solar power plant in Italy, Anadolu Agency reported today.
Turkish companies Naturel Enerji and KURTEKS Tekstil Enerji announced that they will be working with Italy to develop and construct a 50-megawatt solar power plant.
It is stated that the total value of the contract is €45 million ($50.4 million), excluding VAT, with Naturel Enerji providing project funding.
30 June 2020; MEMO: Lebanese diplomat, Amal Mudallali, has been elected as one of the vice presidents of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in a vote yesterday, the National reports.
30 June 2020; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main coalition partner, Benny Gantz, signalled his opposition on Monday to advance the plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians want to establish a state.
But Netanyahu was quoted by a spokesman as telling legislators from his right-wing Likud party that annexation steps due to be debated by the cabinet as early as Wednesday did not depend on Gantz’s support.
KUWAIT CITY, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Kuwait will fully resume commercial flights at Kuwait International Airport on August 1, 2021, the Kuwaiti civil aviation administration said Tuesday.
Kuwait's Directorate-General for Civil Aviation announced on Tuesday the details of the operational plan for the return of commercial flights at Kuwait International Airport.
On March 13, Kuwait suspended all commercial flights as part of the efforts to curb the rapid rise of coronavirus cases.
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