AZMARIN, Syria (AP) — A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 1,900 people. Hundreds were still believed to be trapped under rubble, and the toll was expected to rise as rescue workers searched mounds of wreckage in cities and towns across the area.
05 Feb 2023; MEMO: Thousands of people took to the streets in Israeli cities Saturday for a fifth straight week to protest the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning proposed judicial reforms, Anadolu reports.
Demonstrators from non-governmental organizations, lawyers and technology sectors staged the protests/
Police closed roads leading to squares in Tel Aviv during the day and took security measures in the surrounding area.
05 Feb 2023; MEMO: Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to resign in protest of the policies of the Benjamin Netanyahu government, according to local media, Anadolu reports.
The private Channel 13, citing sources close to Ben-Gvir, said the far-right minister was critical of the government's "lenient" response to rocket fire from Gaza and the slow evacuation of the Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin community near East Jerusalem.
05 Feb 2023; MEMO: Israel is exploring the possibility of supplying Ukraine with its state-of-the-art Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, Anadolu reports.
"The issue of arms supplies was considered and rejected by the previous Israeli government. I will study this issue and answer this matter in the most adequate manner," Netanyahu said in an interview with the French LCI channel.
06 Feb 2023; MEMO: Former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid yesterday criticised National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Defence Minister Bezalel Smotrich, as well as Member of Knesset Aryeh Bibi.
06 Feb 2023; MEMO: Military delegations from Turkiye, Syria and Russia will hold a meeting this month in the context of developing the tripartite dialogue that began at the end of last year, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said.
Akar told the Turkish newspaper Sozcu yesterday that technical delegations from the three countries' ministries of defence and intelligence will meet as part of the dialogue. No details as to the exact date for the meeting were given.
06 Feb 2023; MEMO: At least 500 people have been killed in Turkiye and Syria after an earthquake shook the countries. Thousands more were left injured.
The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said the quake struck at a depth of ten kilometres near the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, while the EMSC monitoring service said the chance of a tsunami risk was being evaluated.
JERUSALEM, Feb 5 (NNN-MA’AN) – Tens of thousands of Israelis, demonstrated last night, in several cities, to protest the government’s plan to reform the judicial system.
The largest protest was being held in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, which was attended by thousands of people.
Demonstrators have rallied for five weeks in a row, to voice their discontent with the judicial reforms, proposed by Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. They say, the reforms will weaken the courts and give the ruling coalition more power.
DUBAI, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader has pardoned "tens of thousands" of prisoners including some arrested in recent anti-government protests, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, after a deadly state crackdown helped quell the nationwide unrest.
However, the pardon approved by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei came with conditions, according to details announced in state media reports, which said the measure would not apply to any of the numerous dual nationals held in Iran.
CAIRO, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Fomer Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail died on Saturday at the age of 67, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported.
Ismail had a disease in the digestive system, according to earlier official media reports.
Ismail served as the country's prime minister between 2015 and 2018. He was minister of petroleum and mineral resources from 2013 to 2015.
His death was mourned by Eyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and other Egyptian officials.
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