CAIRO (AP) — President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt held talks Saturday with Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who visited Cairo for the first time in years.
The talks focused on ties between the two nations and a set of other regional and global topics, according to a brief statement from the Egyptian presidency. It did not provide further details.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s caretaker prime minister is set to fly to Saudi Arabia, followed by Iran, carrying a new initiative aimed at renewing talks between the two regional arch foes, an official said Saturday.
The official said Mustafa al-Kadhimi was scheduled to travel to Riyadh later in the day for meetings with Saudi officials. He will then travel to Tehran on Sunday.
24 June 2022; MEMO: Iran, on Friday, dismissed as "ridiculous" allegations by Israel's Foreign Minister while on a visit to Ankara that the Islamic Republic was planning anti-Israeli attacks in Turkiye, AFP reports.
According to the report, Iran published a statement rejecting the latest allegations.
"The baseless allegations … are ridiculous and part of a pre-designed plot to destroy relations between the two Muslim countries," Foreign Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, said in a statement.
24 June 2022; MEMO: Israel reiterated its rejection of the accusations that blamed it for the killing of Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, Anadolu News Agency reports.
In a statement, the Israeli army accused the UN probe of being biased, citing Palestinians' rejection to hand the bullet that killed Abu Akleh to Israel.
The Israeli army insisted on the narrative of a fire exchange with Palestinians which it claimed had killed Abu Akleh.
24 June 2022; MEMO: The Lebanese government has revealed a plan to deport Syrian refugees from Lebanon, in cooperation with the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad.
The Lebanese Minister of Displaced Affairs, Issam Sharaf El-Din, said he had met with the representative of the UN Refugees Agency, Ayaki Ito, who requested a deadline to respond to the proposals and questions presented by his ministry regarding the return of Syrian refugees to their country.
CAIRO, Jun 24 (NNN-MENA) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, yesterday, wrapped up his three-nation regional tour that aimed at mending rifts and strengthening cooperation with the Gulf Arab countries.
The three-day trip, which brought the crown prince to Egypt, Jordan and Türkiye, saw the signing of investment deals and pledges to strengthen bilateral cooperation.
BEIRUT, Jun 24 (NNN-NNA) – Najib Mikati, re-appointed as Lebanon’s prime minister-designate by the president, yesterday called on all Lebanese parties, to put aside differences and cooperate to put Lebanon on the right path of recovery.
“I call on all parties to cooperate and continue necessary reform measures, to put Lebanon on the right path for long-awaited solutions,” Mikati said, when addressing the public from the president’s Baabda Palace, local TV channel, MTV, reported.
ANKARA, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Turkey on Friday has issued an arrest warrant for 18 Turkish nationals for allegedly providing financial aid to the Islamic State (IS) group, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.
The police teams carried out simultaneous raids in 12 provinces of Turkey as part of a capital Ankara-based operation and detained 12 suspects.
The suspects were allegedly providing assistance to the IS by collecting cash aid through their bank accounts.
23 June 2022; MEMO: Three judges in Tunisia have staged a hunger strike in protest against President Kais Saied's decision to sack 57 judges, including them, Anadolu News Agency reported.
This came in a statement read out on Wednesday by Hammadi Rahmani, one of the three striking judges, in the capital, Tunis.
The judges on hunger strike are Rahmani, Ramzi Bahria and Mohamed Taher Kanzari.
23 June 2022; MEMO: An Iranian court decided to demand Washington over $4 billion in compensation to the families of nuclear scientists who were assassinated in recent years, AFP reports.
Iran has accused the United States, Israel, or both, of a series of killings targeting key figures, including the November 2020 assassination of top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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