09 Feb 2023; MEMO: Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, was due to meet officials in Sudan on Thursday, part of an African tour seeking to expand influence at a time when Western nations have sought to isolate Moscow with sanctions over the war in Ukraine, Reuters reports.
09 Feb 2023; MEMO: Cold, hunger and despair gripped hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria on Thursday, while hopes faded of many more people being found alive amid the ruins of cities.
The death toll from the quakes, which struck early on Monday morning, passed 19,000 on Thursday across both countries.
That surpasses the more than 17,000 people killed in 1999, when a similarly powerful quake hit Turkiye's more densely populated north-west.
09 Feb 2023; MEMO: An appeals court in Saudi Arabia has increased the prison sentence of US citizen Saad Al-Madi over a series of political tweets from 16 years to 19 years, his son Ibrahim has revealed.
09 Feb 2023; MEMO: The Iraqi crude pipeline to Turkiye's oil export hub, Ceyhan, resumed since powerful earthquakes hit the region on Monday, local Turkish media reports.
According to the report, two massive quakes that struck south-eastern Turkiye and severely impacted neighbouring Syria, had halted operations at the 1 million barrel per day (bpd) oil export terminal in Ceyhan, and stopped key crude oil flow from Iraq and Azerbaijan.
09 Feb 2023; MEMO: The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic's (SOCAR) Turkiye branch, SOCAR Turkiye, is offering free fuel to emergency vehicles in five cities affected by the massive earthquakes in Turkiye's south-east, local Turkish media reports.
09 Feb 2023; MEMO: An agreement to establish a naval base by Russia on the Sudanese Red Sea Coast is moving forward, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports.
"You know this agreement has been signed earlier between the two countries and it's only waiting to be legislated," he said at a news conference in Khartoum after meeting Sudanese military chief, Abdul Fattah Alburhan.
KHARTOUM, February 9. /TASS/: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Western countries don’t believe in democracy, otherwise they would leave developing countries alone.
He made the statement at a joint news conference with the Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali al-Sadiq.
RABAT, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Moroccan navy rescued 167 Spain-bound migrants in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Jan. 28 to Feb. 7, official news agency MAP reported Wednesday.
The migrants have attempted dangerous crossings and encountered problems while boarding several makeshift boats, kayaks, jet skis, and even swimming, MAP said.
Before being taken to the closest Moroccan ports and handed over to the Royal Gendarmerie for the usual procedures, the migrants received first aid from navy units, according to the report.
ANKARA, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations' first convoy of aid crossed from Türkiye to Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Thursday, three days after the devastating earthquake, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.
Six truckloads of aid entered the Bab al-Hawa border crossing through the Cilvegozu border gate in Türkiye's southern Hatay province, the news agency reported.
Bab al-Hawa is currently the only crossing through which the UN aid is allowed to go into the area.
ANKARA/DAMASCUS, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Monday's devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria has risen to 15,383, according to data released by authorities and rescuers.
The number of people killed in Türkiye due to the devastating earthquake has reached 12,391, the country's Anadolu agency reported on Thursday, citing the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority.
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