20 Nov 2021; MEMO: On the final day of the Dubai Air Show, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israeli firms on Thursday signed a deal to cooperate on developing unmanned surface vessels (USVs).
According to The Jerusalem Post, the parties to the deal are Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and EDGE, an Emirati advanced tech company.
BEIRUT, Nov 19 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanese Culture Minister, Mohammad Mortada, yesterday launched a 13-million U.S. dollar plan, funded by the World Bank (WB), for the reconstruction and restoration of heritage buildings damaged by the Beirut blasts.
The launching came during a meeting held at Movenpick hotel in Beirut, attended by the World Bank Regional Director, Saroj Kumar Jha and Beirut Governor, Marwan Abboud.
Mortada said, the ministry conducted a field survey to assess the damage to the heritage buildings and the degree of destruction that resulted from the blasts.
DUBAI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Thousands of farmers and their supporters gathered in the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Friday, state TV reported, in a major protest over water shortages in the drought-stricken region.
"Let Isfahan breathe again, revive Zayandeh Rud," chanted some of the demonstrators in a video posted on social media as crowds gathered in the dry bed of the river where protesting farmers have set up a tent city. "Our children want water to provide food for your children," read a sign carried by a woman.
KUWAIT CITY, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Kuwait concluded on Thursday the "Gulf Shooting 2021" exercise with the participation of Saudi and U.S. forces, said Sheikh Thamer Al-Ali Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Interior Minister and Acting Defense Minister.
The joint drill constitutes deterrence against any party with ill intentions against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, in addition to reflecting interaction and cooperation among Kuwaiti, Saudi and U.S. military forces, the minister said in a statement.
19 Nov 2021; MEMO: The UN's Human Rights Chief, on Thursday, condemned the killing of at least 39 people by Sudanese security forces since the 25 October military coup in the country, and lethal shootings in three different places the day before, Anadolu News Agency reports.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said 15 people were reportedly shot dead on Wednesday during protests in the capital Khartoum, as well as the Khartoum-Bahri and Omdurman centres.
19 Nov 2021; MEMO: The Israeli Public Defender's Office said yesterday that the member of Defence Minister Benny Gantz's housekeeping staff who is accused of spying for Iran, had acted out of "financial duress" and had not intended to harm national security, Reuters reported.
The Public Defender's Office which assigned Gal Wolf to defend the suspect, told Kan public radio that the man had intended to extract money without actually being able to carry out any espionage.
19 Nov 2021; MEMO: A Palestinian prisoner who has been held in Israeli jails for 13 years died today in what Palestinian rights groups believe is a result of medical negligence on the part of Israeli prison authorities.
Thirty-nine-year-old Sami Al-Amour from the Deir Al-Balah refugee camp in the besieged Gaza Strip, was announced dead this morning at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba after he was held at a military checkpoint for 14 hours while on his way to the medical centre.
BEIRUT, Nov 18 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, yesterday denied media allegations, that he transferred public funds to a company owned by his brother.
Salameh said in a statement that, “not a single penny” was taken from public funds to pay fees and commissions to his brother’s company, Forry Associates Ltd, a firm whose transactions and investments have been the focus of media reports.
Salameh said, his opponents had disseminated the false information.
RAMALLAH, Nov 18 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Abbas met with Thomas-Greenfield at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, and warned that Israel’s practices in the Palestinian territories “would undermine the vision of the two-state solution.”
18 Nov 2021; MEMO: Palestinian NGOs yesterday called for boycotting American envoy to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield over her decision not to meet with represenatives of the six Palestinian NGOs banned by Israel, a statement said.
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