27 Sep 2021; MEMO: Egyptian authorities are holding the founder of the country's largest dairy products and juices producer and his son in conditions that amount to torture because of their refusal to cede their assets, Reuters reported Amnesty International saying today.
There was no immediate response to a request for comment to Egypt's state information service.
BAGHDAD (AP) — In the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, glossy election campaign posters are plastered alongside jungles of sagging electrical wires lining the alleyway to Abu Ammar’s home.
But his mind is far from Iraq’s Oct. 10 federal election. The 56-year-old retired soldier’s social welfare payments barely cover the cost of food and medicine, let alone electricity. Despite chronic outages from the national grid, Abu Ammar can’t afford a generator.
SANAA, Sept 26 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s Houthi militia, yesterday, captured new areas in southern Marib province, in central Yemen, after fierce fighting with government troops, a military source said.
“Houthi militia advanced from Harib district and captured this morning (yesterday), the Mal’aa hilltops, the adjacent valley of Om Reash and part of the main highway in the area, which leads to Al-Jubah district, and the province’s capital, Marib city,” a government military source in the city said.
DUBAI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Pakistan will pursue individual trade deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, a Pakistani official said on Sunday, as talks with the Gulf Cooperation Council remain stalled.
The GCC, which includes those three countries plus Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, started free trade talks with Pakistan in 2004. It has not implemented a free trade deal since 2015.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Saturday that he will hold his first meetings with senior Gulf ministers in New York.
Bennett was set to depart on Saturday night to the United States to address the UN General Assembly on Monday, his office said in a statement.
On Sunday, he is expected to meet Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State Khalifa Shaheen Almarar, according to the statement.
He will also meet the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
TEHRAN, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that U.S. action will be the criterion for Iran to decide on the nuclear negotiations, official news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.
"We said this clearly that we will use the Americans' practical behavior as the basis of our judgment," Amir Abdollahian was quoted as saying.
"Contradictory signals" that the Americans send through media or diplomatic channels do not serve as the basis for Iran's final decision-making, he also told Iranian state TV.
26 Sep 2021; MEMO: The Iranian Minister of Intelligence, Esmail Khatib, warned the US and Israeli bases in the Kurdistan region of Iraq against attempting to disrupt Iranian security because they "will face an agressive and effective response."
26 Sep 2021; MEMO: United Arab Emirates Prime Minister and Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced ministerial changes on Saturday, including new finance and environment ministers, reports Reuters.
Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum – Sheikh Mohammed's son and the current deputy ruler of Dubai – has been appointed deputy prime minister and finance minister.
26 Sep 2021; MEMO: As political tension continues in Tunisia due to the exceptional decisions of President Kais Saied, Ahmed Gaaloul, advisor to the Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament and Executive Director of the Ennahda Movement said that the transitional provisions announced by the country's president represent a "coup and a deviation from legitimacy."
He pointed out that Ennahda is discussing with the political and civil forces in the country the possibility of forming a "civil front" to confront the coup on democracy in the country.
26 Sep 2021; MEMO: About 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Tunis on Sunday under a heavy police presence to protest against Tunisian President Kais Saied's seizure of governing powers in July and called on him to step down, reports Reuters.
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