12 October 2022; MEMO: Saudi's relations with the US are "strategic", Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan said, stressing that the OPEC+ decision to cut production is a "purely economic" issue.
11 October 2022; MEMO: Saudi Arabia has announced that female pilgrims performing Hajj or Umrah no longer require a mahram, or closely-related male guardian to accompany them.
At a press conference at the Saudi Embassy in Cairo yesterday, the Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Dr Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, said that women from any part of the world could visit the Two Holy Mosques without a mahram.
11 October 2022; MEMO: Flight bookings to Qatar are booming for the soccer World Cup being held in November and December, with particularly strong demand from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as fans work round a shortage of accommodation in Doha, a study showed on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
Flight bookings to Qatar from the UAE and nine other countries have risen ten-fold compared with before the pandemic, travel analysis group, ForwardKeys, said.
11 October 2022; MEMO: The Israeli Public Security Minister denied a request by the extreme far-right nationalist politician and Interior Minister, Ayelet Shaked, to forcibly remove a Palestinian family from their home in Jerusalem.
Omer Bar-Lev expressed concerns regarding the escalation of violence amid the Yom Kippur celebrations and will, therefore, wait till the celebrations are over.
12 October 2022; MEMO: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday that only "reconciliation" between the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad and the opposition can bring stability in the country.
"It is not possible to achieve stability in Syria without achieving reconciliation between the opposition and the Syrian government," Cavusoglu said in an interview on Turkish TV.
He added that Ankara "must conduct dialogue with the Assad regime in order to achieve that reconciliation".
11 October 2022; MEMO: Lebanon and Israel have reached a historic agreement demarcating a disputed maritime border between them, following years of US-mediated negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, said on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
While limited in scope, a deal would mark a significant compromise between States with a history of war and hostility, opening the way for offshore energy exploration and easing a source of recent tensions.
12 October 2022; MEMO: The head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation (CAO) Mohammad Mohammadi-Bakhshd said yesterday that the first Iranian-made passenger plane will enter service within the next three years, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported.
The official's remarks came more than a month after President Ebrahim Raisi announced plans to build the first Iranian passenger plane.
ANKARA, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Turkish coast guards on Tuesday rescued 53 irregular migrants off the coast of the western Aydin Province, the state-run TRT broadcaster reported.
The Turkish coast guard teams rescued the irregular migrants in life rafts off the coast of Kusadasi district, the TRT reported.
In a separate incident, the Turkish coast guards on Tuesday detected 48 irregular migrants by radar while they were trying to cross the border illegally, the TRT reported.
10 October 2022; MEMO: Israel said, yesterday, that it has agreed to compensate the family of an elderly Palestinian-American man, who died during his arrest and assault by the Israeli army in the village of Jiljilya on the outskirts of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
10 October 2022; MEMO: Kuwait has unveiled plans to develop a completely carbon-free green city, to be named XZERO, Al-Seyassah has reported. It is planned to be the largest of its kind in the world, and the first in the Middle East.
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