01 Apr 2021; MEMO: Newly dismissed Fatah member, Nasser Al-Qudwa, yesterday registered the electoral list formed jointly by him and imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Safa news agency reported.
This came after Al-Qudwa and close aides of Barghouti signed an agreement to form their own electoral list for the parliamentary election.
01 Apr 2021; MEMO: War-torn Yemen received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, UNICEF said, one week after the country's coronavirus committee warned of a public health "emergency".
01 Apr 2021; MEMO: The EU on Tuesday accused Israel of ignoring its repeated requests to grant visas to its delegation who intend to observe the upcoming Palestinian elections.
In a press conference held in the headquarters of the Palestinian Central Elections Committee in occupied Ramallah, EU Representative Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff said: "The delay has considerably reduced the EU option to observe the 22 May legislative elections."
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — After months of torture and interrogations in a Hamas prison, Palestinian activist Rami Aman says he was offered an unconventional proposition: Divorce your wife and you are free to go.
RIYADH, Mar 31 (NNN-SPA) – Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, launched yesterday, the Shareek (Partner) programme, to promote partnership with the private sector in the kingdom.
The programme, which targets domestic companies, aims to boost resilience of the national economy and support sustainable growth and prosperity.
The crown prince predicted that, the programme will create thousands of new jobs and raise contribution of the private sector to GDP by up to 65 percent by the end of the decade.
30 Mar 2021; MEMO: Iran has rejected an American offer to lift some sanctions in return for halting enriching uranium and freezing work on advanced centrifuges, Press TV reported.
"A senior Iranian official tells Press TV that Tehran will stop its 20 percent uranium enrichment only if the US lifts ALL its sanctions on Iran first," the station reported.
30 Mar 2021; MEMO: Some 80 per cent of the debt Sudan owes the UK is made up of interest, a report by the Observer revealed on Sunday.
A freedom of information request found that of the £861 million ($1.18 billion) Khartoum needs to pay London, £684 million ($937.6 million) is from interest.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, yesterday warned that the country will sink like the Titanic if a government is not formed soon.
"The whole country is in danger, the whole country is the Titanic," Berri said during a parliament session held to approve an emergency fund for electricity.
"It's time we all woke up because in the end, if the ship sinks, there'll be no one left," he added.
Last Monday, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and President Michel Aoun announced that they had failed to reach an agreement on the formation of a cabinet.
30 Mar 2021; MEMO: The head of the Mesha Centre for Studies and Human Rights in Jordan has revealed that Britain has still not returned thirty Stone Age statues that were taken for restoration in 1990. According to Daifallah Hdeithat, the statues were supposed to be returned to Jordan within two years.
30 Mar 2021; MEMO: Turkish and Azerbaijani nationals will be able to travel passport-free between the two countries from Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported Turkey's Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
According to the report, citizens of Turkey and Azerbaijan travelling directly between the two countries will be able to do so without needing their passports, using their ID cards instead.
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