21 June 2023; MEMO: The United Nations has resisted pressure from a US-led group who are demanding a "sunset" clause to the UN's Commission of Inquiry (COI). Members of the world body are insisting that the UN would like to see a "sunset of the Israeli occupation" before its inquiry into alleged war crimes committed by the apartheid state is terminated.
21 June 2023; MEMO: Turkiye's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) launched a campaign to provide relief to the Sudanese people.
This came in remarks made by the head of the foundation, Bulent Yildirim, in a press conference held yesterday at the foundation's headquarters in the Turkish capital, Ankara.
Yildirim said the IHH has launched a wide and comprehensive campaign for the relief of the Sudanese people and called on all civil society organisations and relief bodies to support this campaign.
21 June 2023; MEMO: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to visit the newly restored 11th century Al-Hakim Mosque during his first visit to Egypt this week.
21 June 2023; MEMO: The Turkish Parliament, which hosts 600 lawmakers from 15 different political parties, can serve as the architect and guide of the "Century of Turkiye" by approving a brand new civilian and democratic constitution, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, Anadolu News Agency reports.
According to the report, after the parliamentary polls of 14 May, the 600-seat Turkish Parliament has started its legislative activities with its new members.
21 June 2023; MEMO: Turkiye's Central Bank is expected to raise its benchmark policy rate sharply on Thursday, in a strong signal that re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accepted some steps toward monetary tightening to combat inflation, Daily Sabah reports.
21 June 2023; MEMO: Israelis opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed overhaul of the judiciary gained ground on Wednesday with the election of one of their advocates to a post with a degree of clout over a key panel for selecting judges, Reuters reports.
Ex-prosecutor, Amit Becher, was voted Chairman of the Israel Bar Association after an unusually public feud with a candidate promoted by members of the country's nationalist-religious camp.
21 June 2023; MEMO: The director of an Arab environmental group withdrew from a European Union (EU) training course in Italy this week after an Israeli delegation appeared at the course, leading her to call on the bloc to adhere to international law by refraining from assisting elements of Israel's occupation.
22 June 2023; MEMO: At least 50 Syrian Druze were wounded, four left in a critical condition, as they protested against Israeli plans to be built a wind farm in the occupied Golan Heights, news agencies reported.
Thousands of Syrians protested for the second day yesterday against the establishment of a new wind farm near the town of Majdal Shams.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 21 (Reuters) - Israeli settlers rampaged through Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, torching buildings and cars in apparent retaliation for the killing by Hamas of four Israelis near a settlement the day before, residents and officials said.
One Palestinian was shot dead during the rampage, Palestinian health officials said.
In TurmusAyya, a prosperous town near Ramallah popular with wealthy Palestinians, footage showed cars ablaze with thick clouds of black smoke swirling above and Palestinian youths throwing stones.
TRIPOLI, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The Libyan Illegal Immigration Control Department on Tuesday deported 165 female illegal immigrants to their home country of Nigeria.
"Some of them were arrested as they were begging on the streets and others were arrested during raids on criminal hideouts," the department's spokesman Haitham Belgasem told Xinhua, adding that more deportation flights would be arranged in the future.
The International Organization for Migration has said that a total of 7,477 illegal immigrants have been rescued and returned to Libya so far this year.
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