22 Mar 2023; MEMO: Jordan's former deputy prime minister said on Tuesday that the Kingdom has to prepare for a "real confrontation" with Israel, Quds Press has reported.
22 Mar 2023; MEMO: The US State Department's annual human rights report adopted the Israeli occupation government's account of the assassination of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, and failed to mention the death of an American citizen after he was arrested by Israeli forces last year.
22 Mar 2023; MEMO: A large group of reserve Israeli soldiers and officers yesterday warned that they will not turn up for duty if called upon as a result of government plans to overhaul the judiciary, local media reported.
RIYADH, March 21 (Reuters) - Saudi authorities released on Tuesday a U.S. citizen jailed for 19 years for posting criticism of the government on Twitter but he remains banned from travelling, his son said, as the kingdom moves to ease tension with the United States.
Saad Ibrahim Almadi, 72, was jailed for 16 years by a criminal court in 2022 and an appeals court increased his sentence to 19 years last month.
His son, Ibrahim, told Reuters his father was at his home in Riyadh with his family.
ADDIS ABABA, March 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 3.4 million children across Ethiopia do not have access to school, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) disclosed late Monday.
In an Ethiopia Situation Report, UNOCHA said more than 3.4 million children including 1.7 million girls do not have access to school due to the impact of conflict and climate shocks across the east African country.
20 Mar 2023; MEMO: An Egyptian start-up is aiming to turn more than 5 billion plastic bags into tiles tougher than cement as it tackles the twin problems of tonnes of waste entering the Mediterranean Sea and high levels of building sector emissions, Reuters reports.
20 Mar 2023; MEMO: Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, on Monday ordered the closure of the Voice of Palestine radio station's offices in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports.
A statement by Ben-Gvir's office attributed the move to incitement against Israel by the Palestinian radio.
According to an Anadolu reporter, a number of staff working for the radio station were summoned by Israeli police for questioning.
20 Mar 2023; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday announced a softening of his judicial overhaul plan but an unallayed opposition said it would still challenge key legislation in the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a constitutional showdown, Reuters reports.
20 Mar 2023; MEMO: Jordan, on Monday, condemned the use of a map of Israel by an Israeli Minister which included sovereign Jordanian territory, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, addressed an event in Paris on Sunday while standing by a map of "Greater Israel", portraying Jordan as part of the self-proclaimed Jewish State.
20 Mar 2023; MEMO: Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, announced on Monday that his country has concluded an agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to facilitate trade movement between the two countries using the Emirati currency, the dirham.
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