11 August 2022; MEMO: A ten-year-old Palestinian girl died today after sustaining head injuries during Israel's three-day assault on Gaza.
Layan Al-Shaer from Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, was transferred to Al-Makassed Hospital in Palestine's occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday as her medical condition deteriorated.
11 August 2022; MEMO: Iran's latest space cooperation project with Russia could give Tehran the capacity to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads in the future, Israeli officials fear.
According to the Jerusalem Post, officials believe the partnership could also help Iran monitor targets throughout the region and reduce Israeli spies' ability to penetrate the Islamic Republic's border with operations which hold back its nuclear progress.
11 August 2022; MEMO: The official Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup hospitality booking website has listed Palestine as a country option instead of Israel.
BAGHDAD, Aug 11 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi powerful Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, yesterday, called on the country’s judiciary, to dissolve parliament by the end of next week, due to the expiry of the constitutional deadlines for the formation of a new government.
Parliament does not need to convene to dissolve itself, because some parliamentary blocs adhere to the quota system, continue to engage in corruption, and refuse to bow to the people’s demand to dissolve parliament, Al-Sadr tweeted.
DAMASCUS, Aug 11 (NNN-SANA) – Abu Salem al-Iraqi, a senior Daesh leader in southern Syria, blew himself up, during a Syrian security operation in the southern province of Daraa, on Tuesday, it was reported yesterday.
A security source said, the Syrian security forces carried out a security operation, which led to al-Iraqi detonating his explosive belt, after being encircled by the Syrian forces, inside a house in the town of Adwan, in the western countryside of Daraa.
Al-Iraqi received several gunshots before detonating his explosive belt, said the report.
CAIRO, Aug 11 (NNN-SPA) – A subsidiary of the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), acquired minority stakes in four Egyptian companies for 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, Egypt’s Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, said yesterday.
This comes as Egypt ramps up its effort to entice foreign investors, the ministry said, in a statement.
TEHRAN, Aug 11 (NNN-IRNA) – The Iranian Navy rescued an Iranian ship, from “unidentified” invading boats, after armed clashes in the Red Sea the night before, the state-run IRIB TV reported yesterday.
Speaking in a televised interview, Rear Admiral Mostafa Tajoddini, deputy commander of the Iranian Navy’s strategic operations, said that, the naval forces immediately rushed to the scene upon receiving a rescue call from the Iranian ship under attack by unidentified boats.
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Torrential rains across southwestern Yemen and the country’s capital of Sanaa have triggered flashfloods and collapsed homes, killing at least 38 people over the past two days, officials said Thursday.
Scores of homes in Sanaa and the provinces of Dhamar and Ibb have completely collapsed or have been significantly damaged, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
10 August 2022; MEMO: An advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said that Arab states should abide by the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and refuse to normalise relations with Israel until the Palestinian issue has been resolved. Mahmoud Al-Habbash, who advises Abbas on religious and Islamic affairs, made his comments to Russia's Sputnik news agency.
10 August 2022; MEMO: Kuwait says it considers freeing the Middle East of nuclear weapons a goal that will not be conceded to achieve security, safety and stability in the region, calling on Israel to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
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