16 Jan 2023; MEMO: The Anti-Corruption Criminal Court in Sudan convicted Widad Babiker on Sunday of illegally amassing wealth. The second wife of ousted President Omar Al-Bashir was also stripped of her assets, including agricultural and residential land, properties and gold artefacts.
16 Jan 2023; MEMO: Human rights groups have accused the militia of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) of the forced disappearance of revolutionary movement leader Asaad Abdullah Jaafar Sakina in Aden. He has been held for three weeks amid fears for his deteriorating health condition.
16 Jan 2023; MEMO: The Israeli opposition has threatened civil disobedience over the right-wing government's plan to bring about fundamental reform of the judicial system.
Nearly 80,000 demonstrators gathered on Saturday night in Tel Aviv's Habima Square to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government and its plans for sweeping changes to the justice system. Demonstrations were also held in Jerusalem and Haifa.
TEHRAN, Jan 15 (NNN-IRNA) – The Iranian Foreign Ministry, yesterday, summoned British Ambassador, Simon Shercliff, to protest the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) “unconventional interference” in Iran’s internal affairs.
The director general of the Western Europe Department of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, delivered to Shercliff, Iran’s protest against the UK’s “acts of sabotage against the Islamic republic of Iran’s national security,” the ministry said in a statement, on its website.
JERUSALEM, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Israel's president warned on Sunday that the country faced a constitutional crisis over a contested plan to rein in the judiciary and said he was mediating between parties.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now in his sixth term, wants to put controls on the Supreme Court, which members of his religious-nationalist coalition accuse of overreach and elitism.
Proposed legislation would limit High Court rulings against government moves or Knesset parliament laws, while increasing politicians' sway over the selection of judges.
Jan 15 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani defended the presence of U.S. troops in his country and set no timetable for their withdrawal, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Sunday.
Referring to the U.S. and NATO troop contingents that train and assist Iraqi units in countering Islamic State but largely stay out of combat, Sudani said that the foreign forces are still needed. "Elimination of ISIS needs some more time," he said in the interview.
JERUSALEM, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man amid a stabbing attempt in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
Israel's state-owned Kan TV news reported that the Palestinian man arrived with a car at a guard post outside Ofra, an Israeli settlement near the city of Ramallah. He hurled stones at the Israeli soldiers at the guard post, ran toward them carrying a knife, and attempted to stab them.
TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian and Syrian foreign ministers highlighted the necessity of signing a comprehensive document for long-term cooperation between their countries, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.
Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, on Saturday in Damascus, where they discussed the issue and exchanged views on bilateral and regional developments.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday his government plans to charge ahead with an overhaul of the country’s judicial system, despite fierce criticism from top legal officials and protests against the changes that drew tens of thousands of people.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol received an honor guard welcome Sunday on a trip to the United Arab Emirates as he hopes to expand its military sales here.
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