13 Apr 2021; MEMO: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) yesterday warned of the rapid increase in the number of prisons in Egypt, since the January 25 Revolution in 2011.
The network said in a report that the number of prisons in Egypt has reached 78, nearly half of them – 35 prisons – had been built after 2011 under the rule of coup leader and President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.
CAIRO, April 12. /TASS/: The space flight of Yuri Gagarin marked a new civilizational leap for humanity, opening a new world and doors to further technological progress, CEO of the Egyptian Space Agency Mohamed El-Koosy said in an interview with TASS Monday as the world celebrates 60 years since the first human space flight took place.
ANKARA, Apr 12 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey reported 50,678 new COVID-19 cases, including 2,548 symptomatic patients, raising the total number in the country to 3,849,011, according to its health ministry.
The death toll from the virus rose by 237 to 33,939, while the total recoveries climbed to 3,331,411, after 30,194 more cases recovered in the last 24 hours.
The rate of pneumonia in COVID-19 patients stands at 3.1 percent and the number of seriously ill patients is 2,824 in the country, said the ministry.
BEIRUT (Reuters) -A senior cabinet minister said on Monday he had signed a document expanding Lebanon’s claims in a row with Israel over their maritime border that has held up hydrocarbon exploration in the potentially gas-rich area.
The amendment would add around 1,400 square kilometres (540.54 square miles) to the exclusive economic zone claimed by Lebanon in its original submission to the United Nations.
12 Apr 2021; MEMO: The Funeral Department of Kuwait Municipality has rejected requests by Buddhists and Hindus to cremate the bodies of their dead in Kuwait, Al Rai newspaper reported yesterday.
According to the paper, the Funeral Department rejected a request to cremate corpses using modern incineration tools such as electric ovens.
12 Apr 2021; MEMO: The separatists of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen have created a separate economy in the south of the country and obstructed the role of the Yemeni government, an economic researcher has claimed. Faisal Abdul-Ghani made his comments in an interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
12 Apr 2021; MEMO: The head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, said the Islamic Republic is a leading global producer and exporter of radiopharmaceuticals.
"Our production of radiopharmaceuticals is increasing every year, for example, we have produced radioactive medicine whose foreign version is worth €15,000 [$17,828]," Salehi said, noting that in September Iran will launch a new project worth €60 million ($71.3 million) to produce radiopharmaceuticals.
12 Apr 2021; MEMO: Jordanian Prince Hamza Bin Al Hussein was not the victim of conspirators but was involved in a real coup attempt, a Jordanian writer said in a column in Al Ghad newspaper on Saturday.
Prince Hamza's signing of the declaration of allegiance was the beginning, not the end, as he now needs to turn his pledge into practice, writer Fahd Al-Khaitan wrote, adding that the pledge does not mean that he was not involved in the attempted coup.
12 Apr 2021; MEMO: Qatar has begun distributing $100 to 100,000 poor Palestinian families in the besieged Gaza Strip, Qatar's Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza said yesterday.
Palestinians went to the government banks to receive the aid.
On Thursday, the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza said it would pay $100 each to 100,000 poor Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip.
12 Apr 2021; MEMO: Dubai has signed an agreement with General Motors Co's majority-owned Cruise self-driving car subsidiary to operate its autonomous vehicles in Dubai starting in 2023, Reuters reported the emirate's crown prince announcing today.
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