03 Feb 2023; MEMO: Islamophobia needs to be recognised as a crime, a senior Malaysian official said on Friday, calling for "firmer" response by Muslim countries towards incidents of burning of the Muslims' holy book, the Quran.
03 Feb 2023; MEMO: The Israeli Occupation authorities decided to seize 500 dunams (123.6 acres) of land from the villages of Jaba and Hizma, located north-east of Occupied Jerusalem, to expand a bypass road used by settlers.
According to a Wafa news agency correspondent, the Israeli authorities have informed the two villages of its plan to seize lands for the main north-south highway in the Occupied West Bank, which is used by Palestinians and Jewish settlers, known as Highway 60.
03 Feb 2023; MEMO: Tunisia's President has resorted to intimidating the nation's people, the head of a major labour union in the country said on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reports.
"President Kais Saied chose the path of intimidating the people and calling them, directly or indirectly, to fight," Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi said at an emergency administrative meeting of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT).
04 Feb 2023; MEMO: Kuwaiti activists, NGOs and political factions organised, on Friday, a massive rally in solidarity with Palestinian people, Quds Press reported.
The participants expressed their support for the Palestinians and their resistance against the Israeli Occupation. They also expressed their opposition to the normalisation of ties with the Zionist state.
During the rally, the participants chanted: "Palestine is a trust and normalisation is treason … Palestine is an Arab state."
04 Feb 2023; MEMO: The Egyptian Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Friday denied reaching an agreement with an Israeli company to manage its services and decided to take legal action against those spreading the rumour.
A statement by the authority denied the news: "In response to the information that was circulated on some anonymous personal accounts on social media regarding the canal signing a contract with a company to manage its services through a 99-year contract."
04 Feb 2023; MEMO: An Iranian government-backed hacking team allegedly stole and leaked private customer data belonging to French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, security researchers at Microsoft said on Friday, Reuters reports.
04 Feb 2023; MEMO: The US House of Representatives has removed Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday evening under the pretext of "anti-Semitism" after she criticised the Israeli occupation.
CAIRO, Feb 3 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt’s tourism revenues rose by 43.5 percent to a record high of 4.1 billion U.S. dollars, in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2022-2023, which runs from July to Sept last year, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said in a statement, yesterday.
Egypt’s fiscal year begins at the beginning of Jul and ends at the end of Jun, the following year.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey for a second day on Friday railed against a group of Western countries that temporarily shut their consulates in Istanbul, accusing them of failing to share information on the security threat that led to the closures and of aiming to cause harm to Turkey.
CAIRO (AP) — The United States has stepped up pressure on Middle East allies to expel the Wagner Group, a military contractor owned by an oligarch with close ties to Russia’s president, from chaos-stricken Libya and Sudan where it has expanded in recent years, regional officials told The Associated Press.
The U.S. effort described by officials comes as the Biden administration is making a broad push against the mercenaries. The U.S. has slapped new sanctions on the Wagner Group in recent months over its expanding role in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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