08 May 2023; MEMO: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu criticised on Sunday the British magazine The Economist for vilifying President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an editorial.
08 May 2023; MEMO: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Ground Force successfully tested on Sunday the locally manufactured Fajr-5 missile, which is equipped with a thermobaric warhead, Iranian Tasnim news agency reported.
The agency said experts at the Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organisation of the IRGC Ground Force, have developed the Fajr-5 missile; a 333 mm rocket, whose guided version, dubbed 'Fajr-5C', had been already delivered to the IRGC Ground Force units.
08 May 2023; MEMO: Saudi Arabia pledged on Sunday to provide $100 million in humanitarian aid to Sudan and announced the organisation of a national campaign to collect donations, Anadolu news agency reported.
More than 550 people have been killed and thousands injured in fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group since April 15, according to Sudan's Health Ministry.
08 May 2023; MEMO: European Union announced on Sunday its opposition to the participation of Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in Europe Day ceremony to be held in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Israeli media reported.
According to Israeli Channel 12, the EU delegation told the Israeli Foreign Ministry that the bloc does not want Ben-Gvir's presence as the Israeli representative at its ceremony because of his far-right and racist political views.
08 May 2023; MEMO: Palestinians rebuilt their school in the West Bank village of Bayt Ta'mar just a few hours after it was demolished by Israeli occupation, Wafa news agency reported on Sunday.
The village is located in the east of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. It has been facing increased settler aggression in recent weeks.
RAMALLAH, May 8 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestine condemned the construction of a new Israeli settlement outpost in the suburb of the Palestinian village of Mukhmas north of East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that, the building of the new settlement outpost came, after the Israeli authorities confiscated Palestinian lands for the construction of the outpost and settlement roads.
TEHRAN, May 8 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, said yesterday, his administration has managed to export products worth more than 50 billion U.S. dollars, since he took office in Aug, 2021.
Raisi made the remarks in a speech, at the opening ceremony of the 5th Export Potential Exhibition of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran Expo 2023).
PORT SUDAN, May 8 (NNN-SUNA) – Representatives of the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have been in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah, for talks since Saturday, as fighting continues in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
“We welcome the presence of representatives of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF in the city of Jeddah, to engage in dialogue that we hope, will lead to the end of the conflict and the return of security and stability to the Republic of Sudan,” Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, said, on Twitter.
RAMALLAH, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Israeli authorities demolished a Palestinian school in the city of Bethlehem of the occupied West Bank on Sunday, sparking condemnation and outrage from Palestinians and the international community.
The Jib Al-Deeb School, which had been rebuilt by Palestinians in 2017 after its previous demolition by Israeli authorities six years ago, was torn down by the Israeli forces, accompanied by military vehicles, claiming that the school was constructed without proper permits.
ISTANBUL (AP) — More than a dozen people have been detained over violence against an opposition election rally in Turkey’s eastern city of Erzurum over the weekend, the country’s justice minister said Monday. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, CHP, was speaking atop a campaign bus Sunday afternoon when a large group of roughly 200 protesters began throwing rocks.
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