21 Feb 2020; MEMO: Thousands of Sudanese citizens demonstrated in the capital, Khartoum, Thursday, demanding the restructuring of the military establishment and the removal of elements of the former regime from its ranks.
21 Feb 2020; MEMO: Chief adviser to Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Ali Balali, on Wednesday claimed that as many as 120 US soldiers were killed in air strikes launched by the IRGC on the Ain Al-Assad military base in Iraq last month.
General Balali said the US committed a “grave mistake” by assassinating the late commander of Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, adding that the price for targeting him will be to expel American forces from the region, IRNA reported.
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have reached an agreement to end a five-month long trade dispute, officials said.
The dispute, which opened a new front in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, began in September when the PA announced a boycott of Israel calves. The Authority exercises limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank under interim peace deals.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Casting a vote in Iran’s parliamentary election is “a religious duty”, the country’s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated on Friday after voting in Tehran, broadcast live on state TV.
“Voting is a religious duty ... which will also guarantee the national interests of Iran ... I am urging Iranians to vote early,” Khamenei said.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s election vetting body spokesman said he was honored to be blacklisted by the United States, which sanctioned five members of the Guardian Council for preventing free and fair elections in the Islamic Republic.
“It made us happy to be sanctioned by the enemy of our nation ... I am honored to be sanctioned by America,” Abasali Kadkhodai was quoted as saying by Iran’s state agency IRIB.
JERUSALEM, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Israeli and Italian researchers have developed an efficient process for producing hydrogen and other products, utilizing solar energy, the northern Israel Institute of Technology said Thursday.
For decades, hydrogen has been considered the future fuel, because its burning only releases energy and water and does not pollute the environment.
Most of the hydrogen is produced from natural gas in a pollutant process, but there is an alternative process of photocatalysis: splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen through sunlight.
TEHRAN, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iraq closed its ground borders with Iran for three days on Thursday after the detection of coronavirus illness, named COVID-19, in Iran, official IRNA news agency reported on Friday.
Iraqi Airways on Thursday has suspended flights with Iran over the fear of the virus spread, IRNA confirmed.
Also, Iraq on Thursday banned Iranian nationals from entering the country and its own nationals from traveling to Iran.
RAMALLAH, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization Saeb Erekat on Thursday said that the U.S. and Israel are "partnering" in annexation plans through ongoing settlement construction.
"(Donald) Trump's administration is now partnering with Israel, through the recently formed annexation committee, with its new announcements for more construction and expansion of Israel's illegal colonial settlements on lands belonging to the state of Palestine," Erekat said in a press statement.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli prosecutors on Thursday announced the opening of a criminal investigation into the failed start-up of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s challenger, shaking up the final days of what has been a bitter and tumultuous election campaign.
The announcement did not say whether Benny Gantz is a suspect. But it came less than two weeks before the March 2 election and during a campaign in which Gantz’s Blue and White party has painted itself as a clean and scandal-free alternative to Netanyahu, who is to go on trial for corruption next month.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday in an airstrike in northwestern Syria, Turkey said, after an attack by Ankara-backed opposition forces that targeted Syrian government troops. The deaths came after the Turkish president threatened to expand his nation’s involvement in Syria if another one of his troops were hurt.
At least 15 Turkish soldiers have been killed in Syria this month amid a crushing offensive by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces aimed at recapturing remaining opposition-held areas in the region.
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