BEIRUT, December 28. /TASS/: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has accused the US and Western countries of igniting anti-government protests in Iran by spreading rumors and misinformation, the Al-Alam TV channel reported on Wednesday.
TUNIS, Dec 28 (NNN-TAP) – Tunisia foiled eleven attempts by illegal migrants, to cross the Mediterranean towards the Italian coast, National Guard Spokesman, Houcemeddine Jbabli, said, yesterday.
A total of 216 illegal migrants, including 127 migrants of different nationalities, were intercepted late Monday night, by the coast guard units off Tunisian coasts, Jbabli said, in a statement.
More than 37,188 Tunisian illegal migrants have been intercepted this year, according to figures released by the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, yesterday.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming hard-line government put West Bank settlement expansion at the top of its list of priorities on Wednesday, vowing to legalize dozens of illegally built outposts and annex the occupied territory as part of its coalition deal with its ultranational allies.
The coalition agreements, released a day before the government is to be sworn into office, also included language endorsing discrimination against LGBTQ people on religious grounds, as well as generous stipends for ultra-Orthodox men who prefer to study instead of work.
27 Dec 2022; MEMO: Israel's military intelligence does not consider Iran the number one threat to the country anymore, media reports said Monday.
Global challenges are the most important threats the country will face in 2023, according to the Hayom newspaper that said Iran is regarded as the second most serious threat.
Iran is not the focal point but a part of an inter-connected puzzle, said the intelligence report cited by the newspaper.
27 Dec 2022; MEMO: Israel's occupation authorities have stepped up pressure on Palestinians from the West Bank who move to Gaza to sign a pledge to not return to their homes, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed.
27 Dec 2022; MEMO: Turkiye's president on Monday announced the discovery of an additional 58 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the Black Sea.
"Our drill ship Fatih has explored 58 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves, 3,023 meters under the sea, at the Caycuma 1 block," said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following a Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara.
27 Dec 2022; MEMO: More than 600 Palestinian children were kept by Israeli courts under house arrest in 2022, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the Commission said that the Israeli occupation authorities resort to house arrest in occupied East Jerusalem as a form of punishment for children under the age of 14 because Israeli law does not permit their imprisonment.
27 Dec 2022; MEMO: Tehran Prosecutor General Ali Alqasi-Mehr announced on Monday, that 83 per cent of those arrested in connection with the recent "riots" in Tehran province have been released, Iranian Mehr News Agency reported.
The agency quoted Alqasi-Mehr as saying that the number of "rioters" detained in Tehran was "very small," explaining that the detainees included key elements and leaders of the riots.
27 Dec 2022; MEMO: iFly Airlines has notified tour operator Tez Tour about the forced cancellation of all international flights from Russia to Egypt due to the lack of permission to use Jordan's airspace and restrictions on overflight imposed by several other countries, Russia's TASS news agency reported.
iFly airline asked the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency to allow it to fly through Syria, but the agency refused, considering it unsafe.
27 Dec 2022; MEMO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said the government will not cut spending on national projects, despite the scarcity of US dollars in the market.
Speaking during the inauguration of a project in Egypt, El-Sisi said Egypt is continuing to spend on national projects without paying attention to the pressure resulting from the scarcity of the US dollar supply in the market.
Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, more than $23 billion worth of investments have exited Egypt.
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