17 Sep 2021; MEMO: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh yesterday called on Norway to pressure Israel to release withheld Palestinian tax revenues.
This came during a videoconference with Norway's Foreign Minister, Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide, to discuss the latest political and economic developments, the WAFA news agency reported.
17 Sep 2021; MEMO: A Jerusalemite bus driver was injured this morning after a group of Jewish Israelis stabbed him in the occupied Holy City, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.
According to local sources, the settlers stabbed Mohamed Abu Nab twice in the back in West Jerusalem's Givat Shaul neighborhood, built on the ruins of the depopulated Palestinian village of Deir Yassin.
17 Sep 2021; MEMO: Forces loyal to Libya's renegade General Khalifa Haftar said yesterday that they are now facing armed confrontations with their former allies, Chadian rebels, who took refuge in southern Libya while fighting the government in Chad's capital, N'Djamena.
17 Sep 2021; MEMO: Lebanon's energy ministry further raised gasoline prices today, effectively narrowing its fuel subsidy, Reuters reports.
The price of 95-octane gasoline and 98-octane gasoline were raised by more than 37 per cent.
The increase in gasoline prices is to be implemented immediately, an official document showed.
Worsening gasoline shortages across Lebanon have led to hours-long queues to get barely any fuel, with violence sometimes erupting at gas stations.
17 Sep 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian resistance factions announced yesterday the formation of "a joint operations room" in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu has reported. The military wings of Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad are all involved, the first time that the three movements have joined forces in such joint action.
17 Sep 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, yesterday said that the Sabra and Shatila massacre is a "war crime" for which Israel bears full responsibility as the occupying power controlling Lebanon at that time.
17 Sep 2021; MEMO: Tunisia's Ennahda movement said on Thursday that there is no solution to the country's crisis except through a comprehensive national dialogue. It called for the "exceptional measures" taken by President Kais Saied in July to be lifted.
The announcement was signed by Ennahda's chairman, Rashid Ghannouchi, after a meeting of its executive officials.
The measures imposed by Saied include freezing the work of parliament, lifting the immunity of parliamentarians and dismissing Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi.
15 Sep 2021; MEMO: Saudi Arabia has reached out to Israel over the possibility of procuring missile defence systems, according to trade-specific news and analysis magazine Breaking Defence. The Iron Dome manufactured by Israel's defence technology company Rafael and Barak ER produced by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) are two of the options being considered by Riyadh.
RIYADH, Sept 16 (NNN-SPA) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, launched yesterday, the Human Capability Development Programme (HCDP). It is one of the programmes to achieve Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030.
“The Human Capability Development Programme represents a national strategy to enhance the competitiveness of national human capabilities, locally and globally, to be ready for the current and future labour market,” the crown prince said.
BAGHDAD, Sept 16 (NNN-NINA) – An Iraqi soldier and a civilian were killed, and three members of the paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces were wounded yesterday, in separate attacks by the militants of the extremist Daesh group in Iraq, security sources said.
One of the attacks took place in the province of Diyala, when the militants attacked an Iraqi army position, near the city of Jalawla, 135 km north-east of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leaving a soldier killed, Major Alaa al-Saadi, from the provincial police, said.
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