02 Nov 2021; MEMO: At least 200 members of Congress have signed a letter opposing the reopening of the US Consulate in occupied East Jerusalem, Israel's i24 News reported yesterday.
New York Representative Lee Zeldin led the letter, which was signed by all of the House Republican leadership.
The letter said that reopening the consulate goes against the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 "by promoting division of Jerusalem."
01 Nov 2021; MEMO: A group of US military officers is urging that the Pakistani man sentenced to prison should now be freed after he detailed the torture he faced from the CIA.
Last week, Majid Khan became the first detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to publicly outline the kind of torture he received at one of the CIA's so-called "black sites", during the war on terror and the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
31 Oct 2021; MEMO: The US is unlikely to pressure the Sudanese military regime to normalise ties with Israel, The Times of Israel reported a senior US official statement on Friday.
General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan was part of the decision to normalise relations with Israel, the US official said, but the US did not see that the current situation was encouraging enough to move ahead.
30 Oct 2021; MEMO: The United States has implemented a series of sanctions which seem to directly target Iran's unmanned combat drone program, citing concerns that it uses the technology to cause havoc in the region and in East Africa.
29 Oct 2021; MEMO: US Congresswoman Betty McCollum yesterday led a group of progressive lawmakers in introducing a resolution that seeks to condemn Israel for its designation of six prominent Palestinian NGOs and civil society groups as terrorist organisations.
26 Oct 2021; MEMO: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is not liked by the royal family, but enjoys popularity among the kingdom's youth, the former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Michael Morell, said yesterday.
Saudi's youth make up some 70 per cent of the kingdom's population.
22 Oct 2021; MEMO: Saudi authorities must stop the arbitrary detention of Palestinians "immediately", the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said yesterday.
21 Oct 2021; MEMO: The United Nations said Thursday it has launched a crisis trust fund to provide money directly to Afghans to prevent a humanitarian crisis and the breakdown of the economy following the Taliban's takeover this August, Anadolu News Agency reports.
The UN Development Program (UNDP) launched a new crisis response initiative as part of an overall response to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and the breakdown of the country's economy.
21 Oct 2021; MEMO: An Afghan detainee who was held for 14 years at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will soon be released after a federal judge ruled his detention was illegal, Anadolu News Agency reports.
20 Oct 2021; MEMO: Almost half of the 53,000 Afghan refugees that have arrived in the US and are living at military facilities are children, according to a report published Thursday, and as reported by Anadolu News Agency.
The disclosure was made in a letter from Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin, to lawmakers that was obtained by the Wall Street Journal newspaper. The letter was sent in response to queries from Senator James Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee.
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