19 July 2022; MEMO: Somalia's breakaway region, Somaliland, on Tuesday banned the BBC from operating in its territory, citing the British public broadcaster's refusal to recognise the territory as a democratic republic, Anadolu News Agency reports.
19 July 2022; MEMO: Ankara hopes Washington will not fall for a "game" by some US lawmakers against the potential sale of F-16 jets, Turkiye's Defence Minister said, after the House of Representatives approved a Bill creating a new hurdle to any Turkish purchase, Reuters reports.
20 July 2022; MEMO: Qatari telecommunications firm Ooredoo ORDS.QA is in talks to sell its Myanmar unit in what would mark the exit of the country's last foreign telecoms operator, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
BEIRUT, Jul 19 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, yesterday called on the United States, to activate its mediation, in the indirect border demarcation negotiations between Lebanon and Israel.
“It is not acceptable to delay the process of demarcating the southern maritime borders,” Aoun was quoted as saying in a statement, released by Lebanon’s Presidency.
TEHRAN, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Iran is "a turning point" in bilateral relations.
Raisi made the remarks at a joint press conference with Erdogan after their meeting in the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to the Iranian official news agency IRNA.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A top administrative court in Turkey ruled Tuesday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to pull the country out of a key European treaty protecting women from violence was lawful, rejecting petitions seeking its cancellation, the state-run news agency reported.
Erdogan withdrew Turkey from the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention last year, prompting condemnation from women’s rights groups and Western countries. The landmark convention was signed in Istanbul in 2011.
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian attacker in Jerusalem stabbed a man on a bus with a screw driver on Tuesday before he was shot by a bystander, Israeli police said.
Earlier Tuesday, Israeli aircraft struck a post belonging to the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip, in response to a gunshot fired into southern Israel from the Palestinian territory earlier in the day, the military said.
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The leader of Tunisia’s main opposition party has been questioned by the country’s counterterrorism unit Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and terrorism financing through an association charity.
It’s unclear how long the counterterrorism hearings could last for Rached Ghannouchi, 81, who is the leader of the Islamist Ennahdha party. Critics believe it could lead to his arrest — or a trial.
Outside the hearing in the capital, Tunis, Ghannouchi’s supporters decried the proceedings as a sham orchestrated by authorities.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin held meetings Tuesday in Iran, seeking to deepen ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow’s challenge to the United States and Europe amid its grinding campaign in Ukraine.
In only his second trip abroad since Russian tanks rolled into its neighbor in February, Putin met Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on pressing issues facing the region, including the conflict in Syria and a U.N.-backed proposal to resume exports of Ukrainian grain to ease the global food crisis.
RAMALLAH, Jul 18 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestine yesterday warned against Israel’s new settlement plans, after U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to the region.
Israel’s planning and building committee will convene to discuss plans to build 2,000 settlement units, south-east of Jerusalem, according to Israeli media reports.
Part of the plans was postponed until after Biden’s visit, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, calling it, “an ugly Israeli exploitation of the visit, to deepen and strengthen settlements.”
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