Middle East & North Africa

27 Feb 2023; MEMO: Israel has erected "a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime," the editorial of Haaretz newspaper said yesterday, in a stark warning about the direction of the occupation state. Drawing attention to measures introduced by the far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz's editorial said that they include the contentious decision to grant Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, control over the occupied West Bank.

27 Feb 2023; MEMO: Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide Ukraine with $400 million in aid, surprising many with its assistance to the embattled country a year into Russia's invasion and the Kingdom's neutral stance throughout.

27 Feb 2023; MEMO: Suspected Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli motorist in the Occupied West Bank on Monday, after Jewish settlers rampaged through a Palestinian village in a surge of violence that defied US efforts to prod the sides toward security cooperation, Reuters reports.

JERUSALEM (AP) — An ultranationalist ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tendered his resignation as a deputy minister in the new government.

Avi Maoz’s departure was the first crack in Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, which assumed office in late December after securing a parliamentary majority in the November elections.

28 Feb 2023; MEMO: Israel's Knesset Plenum held a session after collecting the signatures of 40 members to force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attend a debate on the government's policy and plan to weaken the judiciary.

27 Feb 2023; MEMO: The two major earthquakes which hit Turkiye on 6 February caused about $34.2 billion in direct physical damage, but total reconstruction and recovery costs facing the country could be twice as high, the World Bank said on Monday, Reuters reports.

JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, Feb 27 (NNN-WAFA) – Hundreds of Israeli settlers launched violent revenge attacks in the northern occupied West Bank last night, killing at least one Palestinian, injuring dozens, and burning down homes, shops, cars and farmlands, after a Palestinian shooting attack killed two Israelis, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

ANKARA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed, 69 others were injured after a 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Türkiye on Monday, three weeks after the massive quakes that claimed more than 44,000 lives, the country's disaster agency said.

The earthquake's epicenter was located at the Yesilyurt district of Malatya province, which had already been struck by the powerful tremors on Feb. 6.

A total of 25 buildings that had previously been damaged by the tremors earlier this month collapsed on Monday, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said.

KHARTOUM, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Sunday said that nearly 4 million children and women in Sudan are suffering from acute malnutrition.

"About 4 million children under five and pregnant and lactating women are estimated to be acutely malnourished and need humanitarian lifesaving nutrition services in 2023, of these 611,000 are facing severe acute malnutrition," the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan (OCHA) said in a press release.

Kanpur: City's older Ursula Henry Horseman Hospital has completed its 86 years. It is one of the oldest hospitals of Kanpur.

Ursula Hospital got its name in year 1937 when the hospital was renovated and renamed.

It was established in the year 1870 as Sadar Dispensary. Henry Horseman, brother of British Officer Albert Francis Horseman, established this building as a large hospital.

He  also named the hospital after his wife, Ursula Horseman. Henry and Ursula married in  year1921 but she died in a plane crash in year1935.