22 Dec 2022; MEMO: Sixty-five scholars of Anti-Semitism, Holocaust and Jewish Studies have issued a letter to denounce the escalating smear campaign against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur (SR) on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
22 Dec 2022; MEMO: Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) to condemn the Israeli killing of a Palestinian footballer, Wafa has reported. Ahmad Atef Mustafa Daraghma, 23, was shot and killed during an Israeli army raid in Nablus.
22 Dec 2022; MEMO: Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Thursday that Lebanon is at a crossroads: improve its conditions or further deteriorate, Anadolu reports.
Mikati's statement was made at the opening of the Arab Economic Forum in Beirut.
Mikati said if the country managed to realize the first scenario, the economy will grow 4% or 5% in 2023 and will help stabilize the Lebanese pound.
23 Dec 2022; MEMO: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has revealed that $20 billion of the money looted in corruption cases has been recovered by the state.
"We have recovered about $20 billion and there are mechanisms to recover the [looted] money stored here and there," he explained.
Regarding international affairs, Tebboune denied any mediation by any party between Algeria and Morocco. "If there is a mediation, the people have the right to know it," he said.
23 Dec 2022; MEMO: Egypt is stalling the implementation of an agreement to hand over two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, only a week before its intended date amid ongoing disagreements with the United States.
TEHRAN, Dec 22 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian Petroleum Minister, Javad Owji, said yesterday that, his country’s crude oil output has been increased by 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) to nearly three million bpd.
The Petroleum Ministry also plans to improve the quality of fuel, produced in the country’s refineries, Owji was quoted as saying, on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting.
The Isfahan Refinery in central Iran will produce some 15 million litres of the Euro 5 diesel fuel per day, in the first stage, he added.
TEHRAN, Dec 22 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said yesterday that, if the red lines of the Islamic Republic are respected, Iran is ready to take final steps to reach an agreement on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal.
He said that, there was an opportunity to discuss issues related to the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions with EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, and EU coordinator for the nuclear talks, Enrique Mora, during the visit to Jordan.
DUBAI, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini have ushered Iran into a new era of deepening crisis between the clerical leadership and society at large.
Amini's family said she was beaten after being arrested by the morality police on Sept. 13 for violating the Islamic Republic's imposed dress code. Amini died three days later. Authorities have blamed the 22-year-old's death on preexisting medical problems.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday night that he has succeeded in forming a new coalition government.
"I have managed (to form a government)," Netanyahu wrote on Twitter, minutes before a midnight deadline.
In a separate statement, Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party said that the veteran leader called President Isaac Herzog and informed the president that he has successfully formed a new government.
BANDAR ABBAS, Iran, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's Consulate General in Bandar Abbas was officially opened on Wednesday in the capital of Hormuzgan Province on the southern coast of Iran, marking the establishment of China's first consulate general in Iran.
In his address to the official opening of the consulate general, Chinese Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua hailed the consulate general in Bandar Abbas as a fresh "landmark moment in China-Iran relations."
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