30 Nov 2019; MEMO: Yemen’s Houthis have claimed that they have downed a Saudi Apache helicopter in the Saudi skies, near the Yemeni-Saudi borders, news agencies reported on Friday.
30 Nov 2019; MEMO: The United Nations Security Council Resolution 302 for the Defence of Refugee Rights called on Friday for the UN to cancel resolution 181, stipulating the partition of Palestine, Quds Press reported.
30 Nov 2019; MEMO: Hours after Prime Minister Abdel Abdul Mahdi’s decision to step down, Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called the Iraqi people to stay in the streets with a view to exerting pressure on the Iraqi regime, Anadolu reports.
30 Nov 2019; MEMO: Egyptian security forces have arrested the famous businessman and former intelligence officer, Yasser Selim, who has been known as a ‘media emperor’ after buying several famous channels and mass media, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported on Friday.
ANKARA, November 30. / TASS /: The launch of the Turk Stream pipeline is scheduled for January 8, 2020, said Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday at the ceremony of launching the TANAP gas pipeline, through which Azerbaijani gas will be supplied to Turkey and Europe.
"Of course, we have another very important step that we will take. On January 8 in Istanbul we will launch a gas pipeline called the Turk Stream," Erdogan said.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Protesters burned tires and surrounded a police station in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya on Saturday, a Reuters witness said, pressing their demands for sweeping reform despite the prime minister promising to quit.
Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced his resignation on Friday after a call from Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric for the government to step down to end weeks of deadly unrest.
ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) and its partners on Friday commended recent measures taken by Cameroon's President Paul Biya to defuse political tensions in the West African country's troubled Anglophone regions.
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (NNN-IRNA) – Joint naval exercises of Iran, Russia and China will be organised in the Indian Ocean in the near future, Iranian navy commander, Rear Adm. Hossein Khanzadi, said.
“Very soon we will have joint manoeuvres together with the naval forces of China and Russia, in Iran’s southern territorial waters, and in the northern part of the Indian Ocean,” Khanzadi was quoted as saying.
CAIRO, Nov 30 (NNN-XINHUA) – The first non-stop flight from Egypt’s capital Cairo to the city of Hangzhou in eastern China has taken off from the Cairo International Airport at 02:00 local time (00:00 GMT).
With the flight number MS953, the flight, which is launched by Egypt’s flag carrier, EgyptAir, will spend around 11 hours in the air and land on Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport at 19:00 local time (11:00 GMT).
The flight almost carries a full cabin and the environment on the flight is quite cozy, said Fu Hangliang, a passenger on the flight.
RIYADH, Nov 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Qatar’s foreign minister has made an unannounced visit to Riyadh, amid signs that a 2-1/2-year rift among US-allied Gulf Arab states could soon subside.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani met with senior Saudi officials last month, said a source familiar with the trip, the highest-level visit since May when Qatar’s prime minister attended an Arab summit in Mecca.
It was unclear if the visit, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, included a face-to-face with de facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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