10 June 2023; MEMO: Six former Israeli police chiefs have called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir as national security minister, Israeli media reported on Friday.
Over three dozen – 42 – deputy police commissioners also shared the call, warning that Ben-Gvir poses "a tangible and immediate threat to the security of the State of Israel."
10 June 2023; MEMO: Following last week's attack on the Egyptian border that killed three Israeli soldiers from the mixed-gender Bardelas Battalion, soldiers are refusing military services in the area, Walla news website revealed on Friday.
The soldiers, according to Walla, have several conditions, including the reduction of service hours from 12 to eight.
10 June 2023; MEMO: The towns of Kafr Shuba and Al-Arqoub, on the southern border of Lebanon, witnessed clashes on Friday between demonstrators and the Israeli army.
The Israeli forces threw smoke bombs at Lebanese protesters who condemned the occupation's bulldozing of their land in front of the Kafr Shuba border crossing in southern Lebanon, according to an Anadolu reporter.
10 June 2023; MEMO: Reelected late last month, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay his term's first foreign visits to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and Azerbaijan, adhering to a long-held tradition of Turkish leaders, Anadolu reports.
On Monday, Erdogan will travel to the TRNC, where he will meet with President Ersin Tatar and Prime Minister Unal Ustunel.
They are expected to discuss developments in the Eastern Mediterranean and possible future steps on the Cyprus issue.
10 June 2023; MEMO: Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Saturday he supports any solution to end the current military conflict in the country, Anadolu reports.
Nearly 1,000 people have been killed and thousands injured in clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group since April 15, according to medics.
10 June 2023; MEMO: At least five workers died on Saturday in an explosion at a rocket and explosives factory in Ttrkiye's capital Ankara, according to the country's National Defense Ministry, Anadolu reports.
"An explosion occurred at the MKE Rocket and Explosives Factory in the Elmadag district of Ankara. As a result of the explosion, five of our workers have been martyred," the ministry said in a statement.
TEHRAN, Jun 10 (NNN-IRNA) – At least seven people were killed and 59 others injured, in storms and flash floods, in five Iranian provinces over the past two days, IRIB news agency reported, yesterday.
Among the four people killed in Isfahan were three by flooding, in Nohuj village in Ardestan County on Thursday, and a driver on an intercity road, whose car was washed away by the deluge, the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Isfahan Disaster Mitigation and Management Organisation, as saying.
DAMASCUS, Jun 10 (NNN-SANA) – Syrian Prime Minister, Hussein Arnous, yesterday said, the country’s wheat yield this year is expected to reach one million tonnes.
Arnous made the remarks, during his visit to the central province of Hama, where an estimated 350,000 tonnes of wheat will be produced this year, said the report.
The prime minister noted that, the wheat quality this year is good, as shown by indicators, including the complete maturity of the grain and the specific weight in hard and soft varieties, which tell the plumpness of grains.
BEIRUT, Jun 10 (NNN-NNA) – The Israeli army, yesterday attacked with tear gas, Lebanese citizens in the border villages of Kfarchouba and al-Arqoub, who were demonstrating against Israel’s bulldozing work on their lands, Elnashra news website reported.
Scores of Lebanese residents from Kfarchouba, Shebaa, al-Arqoub, Kfarhamam and other villages, held a sit-in against the Israeli move, calling on the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), to end Israeli violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty.
BAGHDAD, June 10 (Reuters) - Iraq has agreed to pay about $2.76 billion in gas and electricity debt to Iran after receiving a sanctions waiver from the United States, a senior Iraqi foreign ministry official said.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein was given the clearance during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the Riyadh Conference on Thursday, the foreign ministry source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media, told Reuters.
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