12 September 2023; MEMO: Villagers wept for lost relatives in the rubble of their homes on Monday as the death toll from Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in more than six decades rose to more than 2,800 and rescuers raced against time to find survivors, Reuters reports.

LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — More heavy rain was falling Wednesday in New England, where residents kept one eye on cleanup and another on the path of Hurricane Lee after downpours dropped nearly 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain in six hours and flooded parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

The rainfall was a “200-year event,” said Matthew Belk, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boston. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey issued a state of emergency Tuesday night following the “catastrophic flash flooding and property damage” in two counties and other communities.

UN, September 13. /TASS/: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will discuss the renewal of the grain deal with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as well as with presidents of Turkey and Ukraine Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Zelensky next week. The discussions will be held at personal meetings as part of the high-level week of the UN General Assembly.

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani President Arif Alvi stressed the need to strengthen cooperation with China in multiple fields under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the President House Media Wing said on Tuesday.

At a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong on Tuesday, the president appreciated China's long-term support for Pakistan's development, saying that the China-Pakistan friendship has been unique and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for decades.

BEIRUT, Sept 13 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanon and Britain launched a joint military exercise in central Lebanon, yesterday, the British embassy in Lebanon said in a statement.

More than 65 military personnel from the British Army’s Second Battalion, joined the exercise with their counterparts from Lebanon’s Air Assault Regiment, it added, without specifying the number of Lebanese soldiers.

The 10-day exercise takes place at the Dani Harb Barracks in Ghosta, a municipality located 36 km north of Beirut.

12 September 2023; MEMO: The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine has condemned the Saudi Arabian regime for allowing an Israeli delegation to participate in a UNESCO meeting in Riyadh.

12 September 2023; MEMO: The Israeli military acknowledged yesterday that occupation soldiers had mistakenly attacked and imprisoned three innocent Palestinians last month leaving them with life-altering injuries.

According to the Times of Israel, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) claimed that occupation soldiers fired at several Palestinians who were supposedly throwing makeshift explosives from a moving vehicle towards a nearby military post near the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

YANGON, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar will exhibit its products at the 20th China-ASEAN Expo with 80 booths, Htein Lin, deputy director-general of Myanmar Trade Promotion Organization under the Ministry of Commerce, told Xinhua on Wednesday.

Myanmar's entrepreneurs from 75 companies will showcase agricultural products, food products, aquatic products and gems and jewelry during the four-day trade fair.

VLADIVOSTOK, September 13. /TASS/: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are scheduled to hold talks in Moscow on September 18, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).

"On September 18, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi are holding talks in Moscow," the diplomat said. "They are due to exchange views on the Ukrainian settlement, as well as on ensuring stability and security in the Asia Pacific Region."

BUDAPEST, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Hungary has agreed with Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria to bar Ukrainian grain imports to protect their markets if the European Union does not extend a ban that expires on Sept. 15, the Hungarian farm minister said on Wednesday.

However, Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov told the Bulgarian state news agency before the start of a cabinet meeting that waiving the ban on imports from Ukraine would be desirable as it would reduce prices of basic foods.

KYIV, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Ukraine said it struck Russian naval targets and port infrastructure early on Wednesday in the Crimean city of Sevastopol, in what appeared to be the biggest attack of the war on the home of the Russian navy's Black Sea Fleet.

A Ukrainian intelligence official said a large vessel and a submarine struck in the attack were so badly damaged as to be likely beyond repair.

MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/: The talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were very informative, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"On the whole, the talks were very important, very informative. The very fact that Kim Jong Un came here is also a very important event from the point of view of bilateral relations," he said on Channel One, adding that North Korea is interested in the possibilities of cooperation with Russia in the sphere of aviation, transport and infrastructure.