08 Oct 2021; MEMO: The economic crisis in Lebanon and the accompanying developments at the humanitarian levels in addition to the COVID-19 crisis have had a negative impact on the lives of Palestinian refugees in the country, a member of the Palestinian Movement in the Nahr Al-Bared camp has said.
08 Oct 2021; MEMO: A drunken Turkish man spent hours combing through the forest in search of a missing person, only to discover the search team had been looking for him.
Last Tuesday, construction worker Beyhan Mutlu, 50, was reported missing after getting drunk on a night out and wandering into the forest.
After his worried wife was unable to reach him on his mobile phone and he didn't return home, she called the police.
Dubai, Oct 7 (AP-PTI) When Afghanistan's president was killed in a Communist coup in 1978 and the country plunged into violent chaos, Mohammed Omer Rahimy bundled up his family's treasures and fled to Vienna.
More than 40 years later, amid yet another violent upheaval in his home country, Rahimy found himself frantically loading those same artifacts onto a plane in cotton-stuffed boxes this time to the first world's fair in the Middle East.
DAMASCUS, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad on Thursday warned the U.S.-backed Kurdish militias to stop being agents for the U.S. forces in northeastern Syria.
Speaking during an interview with Syrian national TV, Mekdad said the U.S. forces must leave these areas, adding that the Syrian army will go there eventually.
The minister reiterated that the Syrian army will not abandon any part of Syria's territory, stressing that the U.S. and Turkish occupation forces should withdraw from Syrian lands.
RAMALLAH, Oct 7 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, yesterday discussed by telephone, the readiness to resume peace and achieve calm with Israel.
The official Palestinian news agency said that, Abbas explained to al-Sisi the Palestinian side’s readiness to act under the auspices of the Middle East Quartet, which comprises the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the UN.
JERUSALEM, Oct 7 (NNN-PNN) – Israeli police said yesterday that, 26 Israelis were arrested, on suspicion of massive fraud, related to foreign exchange cryptocurrency transactions, in a joint operation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The suspects allegedly conned “tens of millions of shekels” (millions of U.S. dollars) from dozens of American citizens, under the guise of digital forex trading, the police said, in a statement.
All of the suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv, it said.
07 Oct 2021; MEMO: The Palestinian Authority condemned on Wednesday an Israeli court ruling that allows Jewish settlers to perform their prayers in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, Wafa has reported. The PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates described the ruling as "unprecedented".
07 Oct 2021; MEMO: An Israeli right-wing opposition member of the Knesset is seeking to outlaw the planned reopening of a US mission in Jerusalem that has traditionally been a base for diplomatic outreach to the Palestinians, Reuters reports.
07 Oct 2021; MEMO: The Egyptian authorities yesterday renewed the pre-trial detention of Ola Al-Qaradawi for a period of 45 days. The daughter of prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has already been detained for four years.
Al-Qaradawi's lawyer, Ahmed Abu El-Ela Madi, said that the extension was issued after allegations that she has "broadcast and published false news, as well as joined a terror group."
07 Oct 2021; MEMO: Egyptian mediators have been unable to bring Israeli and Hamas representatives closer during indirect talks regarding a potential prisoner swap, Israeli sources reported today.
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