29 July 2022; MEMO: The United Arab Emirates' embassy in Israel said that it has not pledged to build a stadium in the Arab-Israeli town Kafr Qasem, where 49 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli military in 1956.
29 July 2022; MEMO: Lebanese Foreign Minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, said on Friday there is more optimism than ever on reaching a deal to delineate the country's maritime border with Israel via US mediation, according to a tweet from the Ministry's account, Reuters reports.
"There has never been optimism to the extent that there is today," Bou Habib said, noting that the US official mediating the dispute, Amos Hochstein, would arrive in Beirut over the weekend for talks with Lebanese officials.
29 July 2022; MEMO: Saudi Arabia has reiterated that it will not change its firm position on the Palestinian issue, despite its decision to open its airspace to all international aircraft, including those from Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports.
This was stated by Mohamed Al-Atiq, the acting charge d'affaires of the Saudi Arabia's permanent delegation to the UN, during a Security Council session on Palestine, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday evening.
29 July 2022; MEMO: Iran will, in the next few weeks, begin to build a nuclear research reactor at the Isfahan nuclear facility, the head of the country's Atomic Energy Organisation (IAEO) said yesterday.
Speaking during a visit to the site, Mohammad Eslami said: "Iran plans to build research nuclear reactors to test fuel for the rest of the nuclear reactors which will complete the cycle of research, evaluation, testing and verification of nuclear electricity production in the country."
29 July 2022; MEMO: An official at a Turkey-based grains trading company denied on Friday that barley and flour aboard a ship docked in a Lebanese port had been stolen from Ukraine, saying the source of the flour was Russia, Reuters reports.
The official at Loyal Agro Co Ltd, who declined to be identified, told Reuters that the company had sought to import 5,000 tonnes of the flour on the ship to Lebanon to sell to private buyers, not to the Lebanese government.
GAZA, Jul 29 (NNN-WAFA) – Hamas, the ruling movement of the Gaza Strip, yesterday, denied Israeli allegations that the movement’s armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, has military sites in civilian areas in the Palestinian enclave.
The Israeli army’s allegations “are pure lies and misinformation,” said Hamas spokesman, Abu Obeida, in a press release.
A day earlier, an Israeli military spokesman accused Hamas of building military sites, infrastructure, and tunnels, under and close to residential areas in the Gaza Strip, which Hamas has ruled since 2007.
ADEN, Jul 29 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), yesterday appointed four ministers, including a war-worn veteran, who will head the Saudi-backed Yemeni government’s Defence Ministry.
Mohsen Mohammed Hussein al-Daeri, who has led several military campaigns against the Houthi rebels, in the country’s northern provinces, and had been injured during the years of offensive, will lead the Defence Ministry, said a statement, released by state-run Saba news.
BEIRUT, July 28 (Reuters) - A Syrian ship under U.S. sanctions has docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli carrying barley and wheat that the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut told Reuters on Thursday had been plundered by Russia from Ukrainian stores.
The Laodicea docked in Tripoli on Wednesday, according to shipping data website MarineTraffic.
"The ship has traveled from a Crimean port that is closed to international shipping, carrying 5,000 tonnes of barley and 5,000 tonnes of flour that we suspect was taken from Ukrainian stores," the embassy told Reuters.
ISTANBUL, July 29 (Reuters) - A week into Moscow’s war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a gesture of solidarity with his soldiers at the front: injured men could claim compensation of three million roubles, equivalent to about $50,000 or the amount an average Russian worker would earn in four years.
“It’s our duty to support the families of our fallen and injured war comrades,” said Putin when he announced it in early March.
ALGIERS, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Algeria, Niger and Nigeria signed on Thursday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of a gas pipeline across the Sahara Desert that will supply Europe with additional gas, said the Algerian energy minister.
The signing ceremony was held in Algiers, capital of Algeria, in the presence of the energy ministers of the three African countries, and came in the wake of a trilateral meeting on the Trans-Saharan Gas-Pipeline (TSGP).
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