22 Oct 2021; MEMO: Israel is set to advance the construction of more than 3,000 settlement units in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem, local media reported.
The weekly schedule published by the Civil Administration's planning committee showed that it intends to approve the construction of the new settlement units in Revava, Kedumim, Elon Moreh, Karnei Shomron and settler communities in Gush Etzion and the Hebron Hills.
22 Oct 2021; MEMO: Israel's Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that "conflict" was the only way to stop Iran from reaching nuclear capability, claiming that "a confrontation with Iran is only a matter of time, and not a lot of time."
Speaking to the Walla news site, Lieberman said "no diplomatic process or agreement will stop Iran's nuclear programme", despite efforts to resume talks between Tehran and world powers over the 2015 nuclear deal.
21 Oct 2021; MEMO: A Lebanese military court will ask Lebanese Forces (LF) party leader, Samir Geagea, to give a statement about last week's Beirut street violence, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
Geagea, who was due to appear shortly on a local television show, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
An LF spokesperson said Geagea had, so far, not been informed of any court request to give a statement.
21 Oct 2021; MEMO: Turkey has been "grey listed" by a global financial watchdog over its alleged failure to fight money laundering and the financing of terror, in a major blow that could see Turkey lose billions in foreign investment.
According to the Financial Times newspaper, two anonymous Western officials revealed to it yesterday that the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was "very likely" to approve the decision to place Turkey on its grey list, following discussions today.
22 Oct 2021; MEMO: A shocking account of the rape of a Palestinian woman by an Israeli officer seven years ago has emerged after the military's appeals court cleared the details of the case for publication earlier this week. The Palestinian women identified in court only as M. said that the Israeli officer abused his power by taking advantage of her need for a work permit and forced her to have sex with him.
TEHRAN, Oct 21 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi, called for an action by the UN Security Council (UNSC), to tackle rising Israeli threats to Tehran’s nuclear programme.
In a letter to the UNSC on Tuesday, Takht Ravanchi said, over the past months, the number and intensity of Israel’s “provocative and adventuristic threats” to Iran’s nuclear programme have consistently grown and reached an alarming level.
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Ethiopia carried out an air strike on the city of Mekelle for the third day this week, a government spokesperson said, in a campaign to weaken rebellious Tigrayan forces they have been fighting for nearly a year.
Spokesperson Legesse Tulu told Reuters the strike hit a military training centre being used by the Tigrayan forces. He said the centre was a former base, known as the Northern Command, for the Ethiopian military in the area.
TRIPOLI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Libya's Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah on Thursday stressed his government's support for the upcoming elections scheduled to be held in December.
Dbeibah made his remarks during a speech at the Libya Stabilization Conference held in the capital Tripoli.
"Since assuming office, we have been clearly committed to supporting the High National Elections Commission to hold the elections on time, and to stress that the Government of National Unity came to achieve stability and peace in Libya after years of political division," Dbeibah said.
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi and his Turkish counterpart, Suleyman Soylu, met in Tehran on Wednesday and signed a memorandum of understanding on security matters, Iran's PressTV reported on Thursday.
"We had very good discussions, the relations between the two countries are very strong and deep," Vahidi told the press after the meeting.
BEIRUT, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said on Thursday that Lebanon has increased control over its borders to prevent all kinds of smuggling activities and protect its ties with Arab countries, the National News Agency reported.
"I am personally monitoring control work on the borders as we are concerned about the safety and security of our friendly and brotherly countries, and we are conscious enough to work on preventing the smuggling of weapons and drugs through all border crossings," Mawlawi said during his visit to Beirut airport.
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