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September 14, 2022

US imposes sanctions on affiliates of Iran’s IRGC over cyber activities

The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday on individuals and entities it linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for what it called Tehran’s “malicious” cyber and ransom ware activity, Reuters reports....

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September 14, 2022

Turkiye asks next Swedish government to take counter-terrorism steps needed for NATO membership

The new Swedish government should now address security concerns that Turkiye has raised in return for lifting its veto on Sweden and Finland’s membership of NATO, Turkey’s Foreign Minister...

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September 14, 2022

China donates $1m to UNRWA for Palestinian education

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has announced that the People’s Republic of China has donated $1 million to provide quality,...

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September 14, 2022

Egypt frees detained Al Jazeera journalist

Egyptian authorities have released Al Jazeera journalist. Ahmed Al Nagdy from detention, the pan-Arab, Qatar-based television network reported on Wednesday, quoting Al Nagdy’s lawyer, Reuters reports. The move comes...

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September 14, 2022

Lebanon cites ‘major progress’ in demarcation talks with Israel

Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, on Wednesday cited “major progress” in US mediation efforts on a maritime border dispute with Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports. “The completion of the southern...

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September 14, 2022

Woman holds up Lebanon bank for $13,000 of her own money, advocacy group says

A brief hostage situation at Lebanon’s BLOM Bank ended on Wednesday when an apparently armed woman and her associates left the bank carrying more than $13,000 in cash from her...

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September 14, 2022

Five arrested for smuggling migrants into Europe via private jet

Five people were arrested in Rome and Brussels for smuggling migrants from Turkiye to western Europe via private jet, in trips costing around 10,000 Euros ($10,000), Italian police said...

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September 14, 2022

Saudi Arabia: tribesmen jailed for refusing NEOM displacement

Saudi Arabia has handed a 50-year prison term and a 50-year travel ban to two members of the Huwaitat, a large nomadic Bedouin tribe which lives on both sides...

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September 14, 2022

French court sentences Yemenia Airways for 2009 crash

A French court, on Wednesday, said Yemenia Airways was guilty of involuntary homicide linked to a 2009 plane crash, a court spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday. The airline was...

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September 14, 2022

Israel rejects Palestinian request to rename streets ‘The Return’, ‘Mahmoud Darwish’

The Israeli Interior Ministry has rejected a request by Palestinian citizens of Israel based in Eilabun, close to the Lebanese border, to rename their streets “Mahmoud Darwish”, “Hashivah” (The...

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