02 Nov 2022; MEMO: Britain's ruling Conservative Party has reportedly quietly dropped moving towards accepting an official definition of Islamophobia, as it remains heavily criticised over its lack of action to tackle the issue and combat Islamophobic attitudes within the Party and government.
02 Nov 2022; MEMO: NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, is due to arrive in Turkiye on Thursday for a three-day visit, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has said, Anadolu News Agency reports.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Ministry said Stoltenberg will be received by Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The NATO Chief will also meet Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu and National Defence Minister, Hulusi Akar.
02 Nov 2022; MEMO: The Netherlands has announced its plans to repatriate 12 women and 28 children back to their home country, in the latest move by a European State to do so.
According to a statement by the Dutch government yesterday, the women – who are suspected of committing terror offences due to their travel to join Daesh – "will be arrested after their arrival in the Netherlands and will be tried". Neither the identity of the women, the children, nor their location were revealed.
02 Nov 2022; MEMO: The United States will try to remove Iran from the 45-member UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) over the government's denial of women's rights and brutal crackdown on protests, US Vice President, Kamala Harris, said on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Iran has just started a four-year term on the Commission, which meets annually every March and aims to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.
03 Nov 2022; MEMO: An armed man yesterday stormed a branch of Credit Libanais bank in the Lebanese capital's suburb of Hazmieh, demanding that his savings be returned to him.
Local media quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the depositor was a "former soldier in one of the state security agencies."
They noted that the bank handed over a total of $30,000 to the armed man.
03 Nov 2022; MEMO: After disappointing election results, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid yesterday canceled his attendance of the UN climate conference in Egypt next week, the Times of Israel reported.
"President [Isaac] Herzog will be representing Israel at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh," Lapid's office said.
Last month, Lapid agreed to take part in COP27, saying "climate crisis presents us with exceptional opportunities" for the Israeli economy.
03 Nov 2022; MEMO: The concluding statement of the 31st Arab League Summit in Algiers has affirmed the centrality of the Palestinian cause as well as unequivocal support for the Palestinians' inalienable rights to freedom, self-determination and the establishment of an independent state on the 4 June, 1967 nominal borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The summit also backed the legitimate right of return and compensation for Palestinian refugees in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194 passed in 1948.
03 Nov 2022; MEMO: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are continuing to recruit child soldiers to their ranks in Aleppo, northern Syria, a Kurdish official has said.
Anadolu reported Redur Al-Ahmad, a spokesman for the League of Independent Kurds, as saying that on 10 October "the SDF terrorists kidnapped the 15-year-old child S.H.A. in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood of Aleppo and recruited him into their ranks."
ANKARA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Turkey's president said on Wednesday his party could put to a referendum constitutional amendments to protect women's right to wear a headscarf, in a move some Turks see as an attempt to outflank the opposition on a once-deeply divisive issue.
President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party (AKP) met the opposition on the issue as parties vie for support ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections set for next June, with polls showing support for Erdogan's government slipping.
DUBAI, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Videos on social media showing Iranian security forces severely beating protesters have gone viral as anger grows at a widening crackdown with arrests of prominent figures from rappers to economists and lawyers aimed at ending seven weeks of unrest.
Protests ignited by the death in morality police custody of Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 after her arrest for inappropriate attire have shaken Iran's clerical establishment with people from all layers of society demanding wholesale political change.
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