09 Aug 2021; MEMO: Iraq accused Iran yesterday of cutting off the tributaries to the Sirwan and Karun rivers, Anadolu has reported. According to the Minister of Water Resources in Baghdad, this has caused a water shortage in Diyala governorate in the east of the country and affected the quality of water resources in Shatt Al-Arab, in the far south.
09 Aug 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian government is suffering from a stifling financial crisis that will prevent it from paying the salaries of civil servants.
Palestinian officials attributed the new financial crisis to Israel's withholding of tax revenues, the decrease in foreign aid and the rise in loans from local banks.
The Palestinian government recently expected its total expenditure for 2021 to reach $5.6 billion, compared to revenues of about $4.6 billion.
09 Aug 2021; MEMO: Hamas said it was "shocked" by the Saudi sentences against Palestinian and Jordanian detainees it has held since 2019.
In a statement issued yesterday, Hamas said: "We were shocked with the rulings issued by Saudi Judiciary against the Palestinian and Jordanian brothers who are living in the Kingdom."
09 Aug 2021; MEMO: Israeli public prosecution yesterday submitted a request to extend the solitary confinement of the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Raed Salah, for additional six months.
Salah's lawyer, Khaled Zabarka, told local media that the request was submitted "on behalf of the prison authority to the Beersheba District Court," adding that the court session was set for today.
09 Aug 2021; MEMO: Saudi Arabia yesterday sentenced Hamas representative to Riyadh Mohammed Al-Khodari to 15 years in prison, sources reported.
Al-Khodari's son, Hani, was sentenced to three years in prison, according to the family. Some 22 other Palestinians were handed prison terms ranging from five to 25 years.
The Palestinians, who lived in Saudi Arabia, were charged with "supporting the Palestinian resistance and Hamas."
TUNIS, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia on Sunday kicked off national vaccination against COVID-19 as 335 centers across 24 provinces started to vaccinate citizens aged 40 and above.
This initiative was organized by the health ministry in coordination with the defense, interior and education ministries and in cooperation with several departments and components of the civil society.
The vaccination process started at 7:00 a.m. local time and will continue until 7:00 p.m.
CAIRO, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO)'s proposal, under the pressure of the United States, to conduct a second-phase COVID-19 origin tracing in China is politicized, a former Egyptian diplomat has said.
China has already received a WHO delegation which stayed for a long time to study the virus origin and concluded in a report that the lab leak theory was "extremely unlikely," said Ali el-Hefny, Egypt's former ambassador to China and former deputy foreign minister, in a recent interview with Xinhua.
CAIRO (AP) — Russia resumed flights to Egyptian resorts on the Red Sea on Monday, ending a ban that had lasted around six years following the bombing of a Russian airliner that killed all 224 people onboard.
The local branch of the Islamic State group said it downed the plane over Sinai in October 2015, shortly after the aircraft took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. At the time, Russian officials insisted that security procedures at Egyptian airports were insufficient.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Some of the foreign contractors who powered the logistics of America’s “forever war” in Afghanistan now find themselves stranded on an unending layover in Dubai without a way to get home.
After nearly two decades, the rapid U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has upended the lives of thousands of private security contractors from some of the world’s poorest countries — not the hired guns but the hired hands who serviced the American war effort.
DAMASCUS, August 8. /TASS/: Russian military police administered first aid to people hurt in a road accident involving a passenger bus in a Damascus suburb, the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties said on Sunday.
"Russian military police were on a patrolling mission in the province and were the first to come to rescue after a road accident. They administered first aid to the bus passengers before medics arrived. They released people blocked in the bus, evacuated women and children because the vehicle could catch fire due to a fuel leak," it said.
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