05 Aug 2021; MEMO: Israeli officials have asked the US administration of President Joe Biden to put pressure on the Palestinian families of Sheikh Jarrah to accept the court's proposal that they pay rent to settler organisations in return for becoming 'protected tenants', Haaretz reported yesterday.
05 Aug 2021; MEMO: Iran's new President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed to boost political and economic relations with Latin American states, as a top priority for his country's foreign policy.
Raisi, who will be sworn into office today, made the pledge on Tuesday night during a meeting with the Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA), Sacha Llorenti Soliz.
05 Aug 2021; MEMO: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said yesterday it would resume its activities in the occupied Palestinian territories after a three-year hiatus, Anadolu reported.
USAID suspended its work in the occupied territories following a request by former US President Donald Trump, who stopped all forms of assistance to the Palestinians.
05 Aug 2021; MEMO: The Association of Tunisian Judges yesterday confirmed that the Supreme Judicial Council is the only body empowered by the Constitution to hold judges accountable and able to decide on the appropriate disciplinary course against them.
DUBAI, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi will be sworn in as Iran's president on Thursday, with the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers face growing crises at home and abroad.
Iranian television said Raisi, 60, would be inaugurated later on Thursday, two days after winning the formal endorsement of the country's supreme leader to take office following his victory in an election in June.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel on Thursday escalated its response to rocket attacks this week by launching rare airstrikes on Lebanon, the army and Lebanese officials said.
The Israeli army said in a statement that jets struck the launch sites from which rockets had been fired over the previous day, as well as an additional target used to attack Israel in the past. The IDF blamed the state of Lebanon for the shelling and warned “against further attempts to harm Israeli civilians and Israel’s sovereignty.”
FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The hijackers who captured a vessel off the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman left the ship Wednesday, the British navy reported, as radio traffic appeared to reveal a crew member onboard saying Iranian gunmen had stormed the asphalt tanker.
The incident — described by the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations the night before as a “potential hijack” — revived fears of an escalation in Mideast waters and ended with as much mystery as it began.
MUGLA, Turkey (AP) — A coal-fueled power plant in southwest Turkey and nearby residential areas were being evacuated Wednesday evening as flames from a wildfire reached the plant, a mayor and local reporters said as sirens from the plant could be heard blaring.
JERUSALEM, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Two rockets launched from Lebanon on Wednesday struck Israel, which responded with artillery fire, amid heightened regional tensions over an alleged Iranian attack on an oil tanker in the Gulf last week.
Israel's Magen David Adom national ambulance service said there were no casualties on the Israeli side of the hilly frontier, where the rockets ignited a brush fire.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket strike, launched from an area of south Lebanon under the sway of Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas.
TEHRAN, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Iran is considering imposing a strict two-week nationwide lockdown to deal with the resurgence of COVID-19, as the country's daily caseload continues to hit new records and authorities struggle to speed up vaccination.
In his very last days in office, Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Sunday advised the country's top leader to order a two-week lockdown.
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