28 Feb 2023; MEMO: North-west Syria is in the midst of a "very high number" of cholera outbreaks in the wake of deadly earthquakes that exacerbated an already dire humanitarian landscape, the UN's humanitarian affairs chief said Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports.
28 Feb 2023; MEMO: Since the beginning of this year, Britain has shown a remarkable interest in strengthening cooperation in the military fields with Algeria. This was reflected by the close visit of two senior British officials to the country, and their meeting with the Chief of Staff of the Algerian Army, through which he sent several messages related to "Algeria's neutrality in the ongoing international conflicts and its jealousy over its sovereignty".
RAMALLAH, Feb 28 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Ishtaye, yesterday condemned an Israeli committee’s vote, to advance a death penalty law for Palestinians carrying out deadly attacks against Israeli citizens.
“This law is fascist and criminal, and will not discourage us from continuing to demand our right, freedom, and dignity, to live in an independent, sovereign, contiguous, viable state, with Jerusalem as its capital,” Ishtaye said at the weekly meeting of the Palestinian Authority cabinet.
NICOSIA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Nikos Christodoulides was sworn in as Cyprus's president on Tuesday, promising to make finding a solution to the "Cyprus problem" his top priority after winning an election runoff on Feb. 12.
Christodoulides, 49, inherits a deadlock in reunification talks on the ethnically split island, labour disputes over high inflation, and what he called challenges of "exceptionally complex" irregular migration.
27 Feb 2023; MEMO: An extreme far-right member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) said today that he wants to see the "burning" of Palestinian villages in response to the killing of Israeli settlers. Zvika Fogel of the extreme-right Otzma Yehudit party, headed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, said that he backs the settlers who attacked Palestinian villages yesterday and killed a Palestinian man.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Over the past three months, hundreds of young girls attending different schools in Iran have become overpowered by what are believed to be noxious fumes wafting into their classrooms, with some ending up weakened on hospital beds.
Officials in Iran’s theocracy initially dismissed these incidents, but now describe them as intentional attacks involving some 30 schools identified in local media reports, with some speculating they could be aimed at trying to close schools for girls in this country of over 80 million people.
27 Feb 2023; MEMO: Israel's national air carrier El Al yesterday began operating a new time-saving route via the airspace of Oman and Saudi Arabia, it said.
El Al Flight 083 departed from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport yesterday evening bound for Thailand's capital Bangkok, according to Xinhua, marking the first Israeli commercial flight using the new corridor.
The new route, the Israeli company said, would shorten flights to some Asian destinations by about two hours.
27 Feb 2023; MEMO: Israel's far-right occupation government approved on Sunday a draft bill which, if it becomes law, will authorise the execution of Palestinian prisoners, Arab48.com has reported. The bill was proposed by extreme far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
27 Feb 2023; MEMO: Palestinian group, Fatah, warned Monday that Israeli statements risk leading the region into explosion, Anadolu News Agency reports.
"The dangerous escalation of Israeli government ministers on the Palestinian file will harm stability and security in the region," Fatah spokesman, Hussein Hamayel, told Anadolu.
"We warn the world that these killers can only lead the region into more destruction," he added.
27 Feb 2023; MEMO: At least one person was killed after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake jolted Turkiye's eastern Malatya province on Monday, weeks after two massive tremors shook the region, according to the country's Disaster Management Agency, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Some 69 others were also injured, Yunus Sezer, head of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) told reporters.
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