16 Jan 2023; MEMO: The Israeli occupation authorities yesterday started to bulldoze a 5,000 square metre plot of land owned by the Greek Orthodox Church in occupied Jerusalem's Silwan neighbourhood, the Wadi Hilweh Information Centre has reported. The operators of the bulldozers were protected by a large number of Israeli occupation security forces and police.
16 Jan 2023; MEMO: Palestinian factions condemned, on Sunday, daily Israeli execution of Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, in separate statements issued following the execution of a Palestinian man near Ramallah.
Eyewitnesses reported by Wafa news agency said that Israeli Occupation Forces in the town of Silwad, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, forced the Palestinian man, Ahmad Kahla, 45, out of his car and shot him.
16 Jan 2023; MEMO: Intelligence sources reported that a preliminary ruling in a financial fraud case has exacerbated the dilemma of the UAE Deputy Prime Minister, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose commercial empire has been dismantled for nearly 3 years.
16 Jan 2023; MEMO: The cargo ship, "MKK 1", travelling from Ukraine to Turkiye, was grounded in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait on Monday, and traffic in the Strait was suspended for a few hours, shipping agents, Tribeca said.
Several tugs were among vessels sent to provide assistance to the ship, the coastguard authority said. It said no damage or spill was reported, Reuters reports.
16 Jan 2023; MEMO: Egypt's government will start selling discounted bread to people not enrolled in its bread subsidy programme as it battles accelerating inflation, the Supply Minister said on Monday, Reuters reports.
People will be able to buy 90g loaves at cost price using pre-paid cards, Ali Moselhy said, adding the price was yet to be decided but would be less than 1 Egyptian pound ($0.03), with a trial period starting on Wednesday
16 Jan 2023; MEMO: Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130 "terrorists" to Turkiye before the Turkish Parliament will approve their bids to join NATO, President Tayyip Erdogan said, Reuters reports.
The two Nordic states applied last year to join NATO following Russia's invasion of Ukraine but their bids must be approved by all 30 NATO member states. Turkiye and Hungary have yet to endorse the applications.
16 Jan 2023; MEMO: Relatives of those killed in the 2020 Beirut port blast say they have become targets of the Judiciary instead of senior officials who have still not been held to account for the huge explosion that devastated Lebanon's capital and killed 220 people, Reuters reports.
17 Jan 2023; MEMO: Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, announced last week that travellers with a visa would be required to be insured before-hand to discourage irregular migration, Anadolu Agency reports.
According to the report, the visa insuring requirement would help the government cover the cost of sending back people who arrive in Turkiye with permission, but somehow end up as irregular immigrants.
17 Jan 2023; MEMO: The Egyptian judiciary has issued a life sentence to political activist Muhammad Ali, Arabi21 has reported. Thirty-seven others were also charged with inciting violence, spreading false news and joining a terrorist group, in what the media call the "Joker" case.
The Supreme State Security Court sentenced sixteen of the defendants, including a girl, to five years in prison with hard labour. Five others were sentenced to ten years each. The rest were acquitted.
JERUSALEM, Jan 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in different Israeli cities last night, to protest the new government’s plan to implement widespread reforms of the judicial system.
Israeli media quoted the police as saying that, over 80,000 protesters held the main protest in Tel Aviv. Smaller demonstrations were also held in other cities, in what was called one of the largest protests in the country in recent years.
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