12 July 2021; MEMO: Syrian authorities have announced a sharp increase in the prices of bread and fuel, in efforts to counter the economic crisis that has gripped the country over the past few years.
According to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the regime yesterday doubled the price of bread and tripled the price of diesel throughout the territories under its control.
12 July 2021; MEMO: The dead body of Suha, the daughter of the iconic PFLP leader Khalida Jarrar, has been found near Palestine medical complex in Ramallah.
JERUSALEM, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday his country signed a deal with Pfizer to receive a new batch of COVID-19 vaccines in August.
Bennett said in a statement at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting that "last night we closed a deal to bring forward the next shipment of vaccines to August 1."
He said that together with existing vaccine stocks, the new batch will ensure "from this moment, a continuous inventory of vaccines in Israel."
ISTANBUL, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Turkish prosecutors Monday issued detention warrants for 229 suspects over their alleged links to a network believed to be behind a coup attempt in 2016.
Acting upon the order of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in Izmir, police launched large-scale simultaneous operations in 47 provinces to catch the suspects, the state-run Anadolu agency said.
Anadolu said on-duty soldiers, military personnel and former military school students are among those targeted in the ongoing operations.
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s highest appeals court on Sunday upheld the life sentences of 10 leaders of Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, including the group’s head, the state-owned MENA news agency reported.
In 2019, a Cairo criminal court had convicted all 10, including the group’s leader, or supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, of charges related to killing policemen and organizing mass jail breaks during Egypt’s 2011 uprising. That revolt culminated in the ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
RAMALLAH, Jul 11 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestine yesterday accused Israel of obstructing efforts to stabilise the truce in the Gaza Strip by tightening the blockade.
In a statement, the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs, said that, more than two million people in the Gaza Strip “pay heavy prices, due to the endless Israeli blockade, which ruined their daily living.”
“The Israeli blockade has led to sabotaging lives of the Palestinian citizens and declining the level of basic services provided, under the pressure of Israeli delay and extortion,” the statement said.
ISTANBUL, Jul 11 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, met yesterday, with his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, in Istanbul, to discuss regional and bilateral issues, Turkey’s presidential office said in a statement.
During the meeting, Erdogan emphasised that, as long as Israel’s “occupation and annexation policies” continue, it will not be possible to establish lasting peace and stability in the region.
The Turkish leader reiterated that, Turkey did not and will not remain silent, about Israel’s “atrocities” in Palestine.
TEHRAN, Jul 11 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s transportation ministry confirmed yesterday, a cyberattack against its computer systems, which caused the portal page of the ministry and its affiliated pages to go offline.
“The issue is under investigation by technical experts of the ministry,” the Ministry of Road and Urban Development was quoted by Iranian news network Press TV, as saying.
ADDIS ABABA, July 10 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party won the most seats in Ethiopia's parliamentary election, the election board said on Saturday, a victory that assures him another term in office.
Abiy hailed the June 21 vote as the country's first free and fair election after decades of repressive rule. However, an opposition boycott, war in the northern region of Tigray, ethnic violence and logistical challenges in some areas overshadowed the election. Voting did not take place in three of Ethiopia's 10 regions.
DAMASCUS, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Rocket fire targeted the largest U.S. base in eastern Syria on Sunday, the latest in a string of hits targeting the facility recently, according to the state news agency SANA.
The shelling targeted the U.S. base located in the al-Omar oil field in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour, sending smoke spiraling up in the sky, according to SANA.
The base has been targeted repeatedly by pro-Iran militias in the region.
On July 7, the same facility was targeted by weapon-laden drones.
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