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28 Oct 2021; MEMO: Turkey is prepared to boost defence and security cooperation with Chad, as the African nation faces terrorists and other armed groups, the Turkish president said on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: Spanish Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, made an urgent trip, Wednesday, to Algeria to ensure natural gas supply to Spain amid diplomatic tensions between Algeria and Morocco, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Algeria supplies Spain with around 40 percent of its natural gas, but much of it arrives through the 13.5 billion-cubic-meter Maghreb-Europe (GME) pipeline that flows through Morocco to Spain.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: Iran's talks with six world powers aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal will resume by the end of November, its top nuclear negotiator said yesterday, Reuters reports.

"Had a very serious & constructive dialogue with @enriquemora_ on the essential elements for successful negotiations. We agree to start negotiations before the end of November," Ali Bagheri Kani wrote on Twitter after meeting EU officials in Brussels.

"Exact date would be announced in the course of the next week," he added.

New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ) on Wednesday said it has decided to exit its investment in Myanmar by June next year.

APSEZ, the largest port developer in India, is part of the globally diversified Adani Group.

27 Oct 2021; MEMO: An Israeli flight landed in Saudi Arabia for the first time yesterday morning, Israeli Public Broadcaster Kan reported.

According to the Times of Israel, this came only one day after the first flight from Saudi Arabia landed in Israel.

Saudi Arabia and Israel do not have official relations, but they have been exchanging secret visits and holding talks.

27 Oct 2021; MEMO: The Israeli occupation's navy this morning confiscated two fishing boats off the Gaza coast and destroyed a third.

According to the Head of the Fishermen's Syndicate, Nizar Ayyash, the two fishing boats were owned by fishermen Abdullah Al-Bardaweel.

While the one that was destroyed was owned by Mohammad Al-Bardaweel, Ayyash said, noting that the Israeli navy also destroyed lights and other equipment used for fishing.

Kanpur: The Kanpur Metro conducted its first trial run along the depot test track in recent days. This was ahead of the RDSO trials slated next month.

Reportedly, the brand new three-coach train of the Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation fleet covered a total of 3,900 meters by completing three laps of the 650-meters-long test track.

The testing of the train concluded on a positive note. The train started chugging down the track at the pace of 10-15 km/per hour. It stroked the speed of 30 kms/hour ultimately.

25 Oct 2021; MEMO: Reports that Holland's ambassador to Turkey has been deported from the country are allegedly false, amid Ankara's diplomatic fallout with Western states.

On Monday, ten Western ambassadors issued a joint statement calling for the release of Osman Kavala, the detained Turkish businessman and activist.

Urging a "just and speedy resolution to his case, they condemned the delays in his trial as casting "a shadow over respect for democracy, the rule of law and transparency in the Turkish judiciary system."

25 Oct 2021; MEMO: The Israeli occupation government invited bids for the construction of 1,355 new settlement units in the illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank, local media reported yesterday.

Panaji, Oct 24 (PTI) The Goa Congress on Sunday slammed the Centre for the continuous rise in fuel prices and demanded that hoardings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at dispensing pumps be removed.

Goa Congress chief Girish Chodankar said it seemed as if the PM was laughing at people distressed by rising prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.

"When people are spending their hard earned money to fill high priced petrol or diesel, Modi can be seen laughing at them on the hoardings at petrol pumps, he told reporters in Mapusa.