Middle East & North Africa

DUBAI Oct 10 (Reuters) - Lebanon's power supplies were back to normal on Sunday after a blackout the previous day when the country's two biggest power stations shut down because of a fuel shortage, the Energy Ministry said.

The closure piled further hardship on Lebanese struggling with job losses, soaring prices and hunger wrought by the country's worsening financial meltdown.

AMMAN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The Jordanian government's ministers have submitted their resignation ahead of a reshuffle, state-owned al Mamlaka television said on Sunday.

The reshuffle would be the fourth since Bisher al-Khaswaneh became prime minister in October 2020, official sources said.

ADEN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A car bomb targeting the governor's convoy shook Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Sunday killing at least six people and wounding seven, the information minister said on Twitter.

Governor Ahmed Lamlas and agriculture minister Salem al-Suqatri, both members of a southern separatist group, survived a "terrorist assassination attempt", the state news agency said.

JERUSALEM, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Israel's security will be central to every German government, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday during her farewell travel to Israel.

Merkel, in Israel on her last visit as a chancellor before the end of her 16-year term, met Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem.

"I want to use this opportunity to emphasize that the topic of Israel's security will always be of central importance and a central topic of every German government," she said in joint remarks.

Tehran, IRNA – Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amirabdollahian said after his trip to Lebanon that supporting this brother country was a moral duty.

In a tweet in Arabic on Sunday, Amirabdollahian thanked the Lebanese people and government for their ‘warm reception and generous hospitality.

Supporting this resistant brother country is a moral duty that Iran will spare no effort to fulfill, he also said in the tweet.

You lived honorably and freely and I thank you, he told Lebanese people and government.

9 Oct 2021; AA: Turkey urged G20 countries on Friday to take further action against climate change. 

G20 countries that have 70% of the world population and most of the global economic opportunities should act for the solution, Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Mustafa Sentop said in a news conference in Rome.

Reiterating that the Turkish Parliament already ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, he said countries that contribute more to pollution should bear more liability.

9 Oct 2021; AA: A 2,000-year-old altar has been unearthed in northwestern Turkey near the town of Ezine in Canakkale province, archeologists said on Saturday.

A hall with a podium, temple, odium, and bathhouse were among the remains that have survived to the present day in the ancient city of Alexandria Troas, an area near the Aegean Sea.

9 Oct 2021; AA: Turkey's president on Saturday urged foreign investors to come to the country, assuring that "nobody who trusts and invests in Turkey would regret it."

"On the contrary, they'll always be pleased with the great profits that it provides," said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of a polypropylene factory in the southern province of Adana.

8 Oct 2021; MEMO: Mohammed Al-Arida, one of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped from Israel's high-security Gilboa Prison on 6 September and was recaptured days later, yesterday ended his hunger strike after Israeli authorities agreed to his demands, Arab48 reports.

9 Oct 2021; MEMO: Tunisia's President Kais Saied dismissed the director-general of the National Railway Company (SNCFT), Belkacem Taya, on Friday, over an accident in which two trains collided in the capital, Tunis.

On Thursday evening, two trains ran into each other in the southern suburbs of the capital, Tunis, injuring 36 passengers with varying degrees of severity, according to the state company.