26 September 2023; MEMO: No one has a say in what women should wear, a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) spokeswoman said on Tuesday, weighing in on France’s recent ban on headscarves for athletes in next year’s Olympic Games, Anadolu Agency reports.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s interior minister on Thursday accused Serbia of direct involvement in weekend clashes and was investigating the possibility of Russian involvement in the violence that left four people dead and further strained relations between the former wartime foes.

One Kosovo police officer and three gunmen were killed in Sunday’s shootout between Serb insurgents and Kosovo police. Eight people were initially arrested, but four of them have been released from custody because of a lack of evidence.

GAZA, Sept 28 (NNN-WAFA) – The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), is planning to send an official request to the Palestinian Authority, to hold municipal elections in Gaza, for the first time in 18 years, a Palestinian official said yesterday.

Hazem Qassem, a Hamas spokesman, said in a press statement that, the group had agreed with all other Palestinian factions, to send a message to the government in Ramallah, demanding to hold municipal elections in Gaza.

ZURICH, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Switzerland's federal prosecutor said on Thursday it has filed an indictment against the daughter of Uzbekistan's former president, accusing her of taking bribes and running an elaborate criminal organisation known as "The Office".

Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Islam Karimov - who ruled Uzbekistan from 1991 to 2016 - is accused of leading the operation which allegedly channelled hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bribes from telecoms companies.

MOSCOW, September 28. /TASS/: Russia continues to work on the development of relations with the African continent, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

The Kremlin official recalled that today Russian President Vladimir Putin would hold a meeting with his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir, who is in Russia on an official visit.

"We continue to develop our relations with the states of the African continent," the Russian leader's spokesman said.

YANGON, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar earned over 4.46 billion U.S. dollars from exports of manufacturing goods in over five months (from April 1 to Sept. 15) of the present fiscal year 2023-2024, according to figures released by the Commerce Ministry on Thursday.

The figure was over 1.04 billion dollars less than that of the same period last year when the country registered over 5.51 billion dollars.

The manufacturing goods sector topped the list in terms of the most export value, followed by agriculture and fishery sectors.

MOSCOW, September 28. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin is confident that the country is able to solve all the existing problems, contrary to the expectations of its opponents.

"There are many questions, but I want to emphasize this - we have all the capabilities for solutions, no matter how strange it may seem to some external onlookers, to those who have expected to see everything collapse here," Putin said at a meeting with regional leaders elected in September.

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh said Thursday it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic will cease to exist by year’s end after a three-decade bid for independence, while Armenian officials said over half of the region’s population has already fled.

The moves came after Azerbaijan carried out a lightning offensive last week to reclaim full control over the breakaway region and demanded that Armenian troops in Nagorno-Karabakh disarm and the separatist government disband.

GAZA, Sept 28 (NNN-WAFA) – UN special coordinator, Tor Wennesland, yesterday, expressed his deep concern over the tensions on Gaza’s eastern border with Israel.

“I am deeply concerned by the escalating tensions in and around Gaza,” Wennesland, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, wrote in a post on his X account, calling for efforts to avoid another conflict that will have grave consequences for all.

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and his visiting Thai counterpart Srettha Thavisin held a meeting here on Thursday, discussing ways to further promote bilateral ties and cooperation.

According to a news release after the meeting, the two prime ministers held talks in a cordial and friendly atmosphere, where they had in-depth exchange of views on bilateral cooperation.

PRAGUE, Sept 28 (NNN-CTK) – The Czech government approved a plan to purchase 24 U.S. F-35 fighter jets, it was announced yesterday.

The country’s Ministry of Defence said, the state will pay a total of 150 billion Czech crowns (6.48 billion U.S. dollars) for the jets. This makes it one of the most expensive purchases in the history of the Czech Republic.

27 September 2023; MEMO: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, was shifted to a prison near the capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday following a court order, officials and local media reported, Anadolu Agency reports.

The Islamabad High Court, on Monday, directed the authorities to shift Khan from Attock Jail to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on the request of his lawyers.