4 Nov 2019; MEMO: A Turkish court ordered the release of journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazli Ilicak in a retrial on Monday due to the time they have already served in jail, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported.
4 Nov 2019; MEMO: Algeria’s supreme court on Monday placed in custody a former culture minister over corruption allegations under former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, state television reported, reports Reuters.
JERUSALEM, November 3. /TASS./ Russian citizen Alexei Burkov, who has been held in an Israeli prison by the request of the US since 2015, told reporters at the Israeli High Court of Justice in Jerusalem on Sunday that he expects to return to Russia.
"Return to Russia," Burkov told Russian reporters when asked what he was counting on.
Burkov also called the decision of Israeli Justice Minister Amir Ohana to extradite him to the United States "aggressive."
He made it clear that he wants the documents of his case to be made public.
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan may call off a visit to Washington next week in protest at votes in the House of Representatives to recognize mass killings of Armenians a century ago as genocide and to seek sanctions on Turkey, three Turkish officials said.
Erdogan is due in Washington on Nov. 13 at President Donald Trump’s invitation, but said last week that the votes put a “question mark” over the plans.
TEHRAN, Nov 4 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iranian forces will target the interests of the United States and its allies, in case of aggression against Iran by Washington, the spokesman for Iran’s Armed Forces said.
“Any place and any territorial point, sheltering the interests of the United States and its allies, would be threatened (in case of aggression against Iran), as Iran has proven that it is capable of doing this,” Abolfazl Shekarchi was quoted as saying, by Press TV.
MUSCAT, Oman, Nov 4 (NNN-ONA) – Khalid bin Hilal Al Mawali, has been re-elected Sunday, as the chairman of Oman’s consultative assembly, Shura Council, for the third consecutive term.
He secured 47 out of 86 votes, while his nearest rival, Yaqoub Al-Harthy, received 14 votes.
On Oct 27, Oman witnessed the Shura Council elections, in which 637 candidates, including 40 women, competed, and 86 members won, including two women.
GAZA, Palestine, Nov 4 (NNN-WAFA) – Militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, shot down on Sunday, a drone that belongs to the Israeli army, Palestinian security sources in Gaza said.
The sources told the Hamas-run Satellite Television Channel of al-Aqsa, that airs from Gaza, a “Quadcopter” drone, that belongs to the Israeli army was shot down in the air of the Gaza Strip.
The TV station didn’t give any more details but quoted the sources as saying that militants opened fire and shot down the drone and then confiscated it.
ABU DHABI, Nov 4 (NNN-WAM) – The 18th session of the General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), opened on Sunday, in Abu Dhabi.
The conference will look into the key role of inclusive and sustainable industrial development, to achieve the Agenda 2030, in particular, in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
WEST BANK, Palestine, Nov 4 (NNN-MA’AN) – Jewish settlers attacked, this morning, a Palestinian family in the town of Dura, in the southern West Bank and beat its members, despite the presence of Israeli soldiers in the area, according to sources.
Settlers broke into the farming land, west of Dura, located near the Ngihout settlement, forcing the landowners to defend their property.
Israeli settlers have carried out 73 attacks against Palestinians, since the beginning of the olive harvest season, a senior Palestinian Authority official said.
4 Nov 2019; MEMO: An Egyptian network engineer yesterday revealed that the state-owned telecom company, WE Egypt, was spying on its customers for the government.
“I have discovered a new loophole, which WE is using to monitor its customer accounts,” the engineer said in footage on Twitter.
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