28 Dec 2019; AA: Turkey will launch TurkStream natural gas pipeline next month, energy and natural resources minister said on Friday.
"We will launch TurkStream on Jan. 8. We will be indispensable in international markets with natural gas pipelines coming from both the east and north," said Fatih Donmez in a meeting in the northwestern Bilecik province.
Bandar Abbas, Dec 28, IRNA – Minister of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism said that according to the World Tourism Organization (WTO) statistics, Iran gained $11.7 billion in direct revenue over the last Iranian year (started March 20), and this year it has brought a total revenues of $11billion.
Ali Asghar Mounesan made the remarks addressing a ceremony in Bandar Abbas on Saturday.
28 Dec 2019; MEMO: On Friday, head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar’s militia warplanes launched an air strike on Zawia Oil Refining Company, in western Libya.
28 Dec 2019; MEMO: Turkey unveiled its first fully domestically-produced car on Friday, saying it aimed to eventually produce up to 175,000 a year of the electric vehicle in a project expected to cost 22 billion lira ($3.7 billion) over 13 years, Reuters reports.
The project has been a long-time goal of President Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK Party as a demonstration of the country’s growing economic power.
28 Dec 2019; MEMO: A US civilian contractor was killed in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Friday, US officials said, Reuters reports.
Several US service members and Iraq personnel were also wounded, the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State said in a statement, adding that Iraqi security forces would be leading the response and investigation into the incident.
28 Dec 2019; MEMO: Israeli defence minister, Naftali Bennett, issued his directions to initiate the registering of settlements in Area C with the Israeli Ministry of Justice, instead of the Civil Administration, Arab48 reported on Frida
28 Dec 2019; MEMO: Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, stressed that his country is facing “very severe circumstances and an unprecedented crisis in its history.”
28 Dec 2019; MEMO: On Friday, Houthi rebels announced the targeting of the Saudi city of Najran with a ballistic missile, killing and wounding tens of Saudi soldiers, Anadolu Agency reported.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Algeria’s president Abdelmadjid Tebboune named Abdelaziz Djerad as the country’s new prime minister on Saturday, state TV reported.
Djerad is a former diplomat who teaches political science at the University of Algiers.
MOGADISHU, Dec 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A massive car bomb blast left more than 20 people dead and many others wounded in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police and witnesses said.
“The blast was devastating, and I could confirm more than 20 civilians killed, there were many more wounded, but the toll can be higher,” said police officer Ibrahim Mohamed.
“I have counted twenty-two dead bodies, all of them civilians and there were more than thirty others wounded, this was dark day,” said Ahmed Moalim Warsame, who witnessed the explosion.
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