Upon the official request of Greek authorities, Turkey evacuated three Greek citizens stranded in Djibouti along with Turkish citizens being flown out of the country as part of coronavirus measures, Anadolu reported.
According to Turkish officials, the sailors, ages 68, 71 and 77, thanked the Turkish government and the embassy.
The evacuation was carried out following an official request from the Greek authorities.
27 April 2020; MEMO: Egypt has released over 4,000 prisoners on Sinai Liberation Day suggesting it has bowed to pressure to ease overcrowding in case COVID-19 hits prisons.
On Saturday the state-run media announced that 3,778 prisoners had been pardoned and 233 conditionally released, a far higher figure than usual. On the same day last year, 67 were pardoned.
27 April 2020; MEMO: A spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, revealed yesterday that Baghdad and Washington will negotiate in June the setting of a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.
27 April 2020; MEMO: Saudi Arabia will abolish the death penalty imposed on those who committed crimes while still minors, the kingdom’s Human Rights Commission has announced.
In a statement published yesterday, president of the state-backed commission Awwad Alawwad said: “The decree helps us in establishing a more modern penal code.”
27 April 2020; MEMO: The upcoming Israeli government of Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will include an Arab minister for minority affairs as part of the Blue White party’s ministerial portfolios, local media reports claimed.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer SAGO on Monday said it bought 60,000 tonnes of Ukraine wheat from investment firm SALIC, marking its first purchase from agricultural investments overseas aimed at enhancing the country’s food security.
The Ukraine wheat cargo was bought at $248 a tonne, after the kingdom asked Saudi private investors with farmland overseas on April 6 to supply it with around 10% of its local needs this year.
The Saudi call comes as regional food importers scramble to beef up reserves as coronavirus lockdowns up-ended supply chains.
TEHRAN, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that the U.S. sanctions against the country violate the fundamentals of human rights amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The "illegal" U.S. restrictions against Iran are even more dangerous at a time when all the countries are grappling with the novel coronavirus issue, Rouhani was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency.
Rouhani made the remarks in a phone conversation with his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is planning painful cuts in social benefits relied on by millions of government workers. Saudi Arabia will likely have to delay mega-projects. Egypt and Lebanon face a blow as their workers in the Gulf send back less of the much-needed dollars that help keep their fragile economies afloat.
TEHRAN, April 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Iran plans to reopen mosques in parts of the country that have been consistently free of the coronavirus outbreak as restrictions on Iranians gradually ease, President Hassan Rouhani said.
Iran, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, will be divided up into white, yellow and red regions based on the number of infections and deaths, Rouhani said, according to the presidency’s website.
DUBAI, April 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The emirate of Dubai said it has lifted its full lockdown on two commercial districts which have a large population of low-income migrant workers, after the United Arab Emirates eased nationwide coronavirus curfews over the weekend.
Dubai on Friday cut its emirate-wide 24-hour lockdown back to a 10pm to 6am curfew.
It has now taken the same step in the Al Ras and Naif districts, which had been sealed off as part of efforts to contain the spread of the virus.
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