06 July 2021; MEMO: The secretariat of the International Union of Muslim Scholars has decided unanimously to dismiss the former Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa; the chairman of the UAE Fatwa Council, Abdullah Bin Bayyah; and the religious consultant to the Court of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Farouk Hamadeh.
06 July 2021; MEMO: Ethiopia has officially notified Egypt of the start of the second filling of the reservoir behind the Grand Renaissance Ethiopian Dam, the Ministry of Irrigation announced yesterday. In response, ministry spokesperson Mohamed Ghanem said that, "Addis Ababa is violating international laws and norms, and is treating the River Nile as its own property."
06 July 2021; MEMO: Egypt and Sudan's foreign ministers met today to agree on a position over Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam.
Sameh Shoukri and Maryam Sadiq Al-Mahdi reiterated their continued rejection of Ethiopia's announcement that it had started the next phase of filling the dam.
Palestinian Authority (PA)'s security services yesterday detained 21 Palestinian protesters who arrived in Al-Manara Square to protest against the murder of Palestinian activist Nizar Banat.
Eyewitnesses said that 21 activists were detained as soon as they arrived at Al-Manara Square, including ten women.
Last month, PA security officers raided a house in Hebron and brutally beat Nizar Banat to death. Banat, 44, was an outspoken critic of the PA's corruption.
BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia has vowed to retaliate against America for the deaths of four of his men in a U.S. airstrike along the Iraq-Syria border last month, saying it will be a military operation everyone will talk about.
Abu Alaa al-Walae, commander of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad that the electoral victory of Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi as president will strengthen Iran-backed militant groups throughout the Middle East for the next four years.
05 July 2021; MEMO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune stressed on Sunday that he will not give up on the "memory file" related to the crimes committed by France during the colonial era (1830-1962), Anadolu has reported. Tebboune made this clear in a message to the Algerian people on the 59th anniversary of Algeria's independence from France published on Facebook.
04 July 2021; MEMO: Iraq backs a proposal by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies to extend a pact on output curbs until December 2022, Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar said on Sunday, adding he expected oil prices to remain at $70 per barrel or above until then, reports Reuters.
05 July 2021; MEMO: Lebanon is suffering from an acute shortage of imported drugs, particularly for chronic diseases, amid a lack of foreign exchange in the country, Lebanese pharmaceutical importers warned on Sunday, reports Anadolu Agency.
"The importing companies have run out of hundreds of essential medicines that treat chronic and incurable diseases," the Syndicate of Lebanese Pharmaceutical Importers said in a statement, noting that this situation has been ongoing for weeks.
05 July 2021; MEMO: The head of Hamas in the diaspora, Khaled Meshaal called, for Saudi Arabia on Sunday to release Palestinian prisoners and resume relations with the movement. Meshaal made his comments on Al Arabia TV.
05 July 2021; MEMO: The Houthis are ready to exchange all prisoners with the Yemeni government, the group's Al-Masirah TV reported the head of the Prisoner Affairs Committee saying yesterday.
According to the channel, Abdul Qader Al-Murtada made the remarks during his meeting with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, in Sanaa.
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