Asia

Dozens killed, missing in flash flooding in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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At least 31 people have been killed and dozens more are missing due to heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, more than a dozen people died as heavy rains and landslides hit neighbouring Pakistan.
Energy

OPEC says Iran’s natural gas output raised 2% in 2022

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Figures by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)  shows that Iran’s natural gas production rose by 2% in 2022 despite sanctions imposed on the country’s energy sector.
Asia

Russia and China conduct joint naval drills in Sea of Japan

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Russia and China have staged large-scale naval drills in the Sea of Japan, Russia’s Pacific Fleet announced in a statement to journalists. The three-day exercise involved a wide range of activities, including joint firing drills, a simulated naval battle, and air defense training.
Europe

Live Update: Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 516

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Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Middle East

Yemen says won’t transfer oil and gas revenues to Saudi bank

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Yemen has rejected a proposal by Riyadh to transfer oil and gas revenues to the Saudi National Bank in return for the kingdom to pay public sector wages in the war-torn country.
Energy

OPEC says Iran’s oil revenues up 67% in 2022

IFP Media Wire -
Figures by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) shows that Iranian oil export revenues rose by 67% last year despite continued pressure of US sanctions on Tehran.
Religion

Iraq says OIC to hold emergency meeting over Quran sacrilege in Europe

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Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has announced that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) plans to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the desecration of the Holy Quran in Europe. However, it did not specify the exact time and venue of the OIC’s emergency meeting.
Middle East

Netanyahu to be fitted with pacemaker overnight

IFP Media Wire -
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be fitted with a pacemaker overnight between Saturday and Sunday, he stated in a video statement released by his office.
Middle East

Turkey to give in to EU demands over immigration rules: Report

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Turkey will amend its immigration policy to make it more difficult for asylum seekers to gain Turkish citizenship, as Ankara seeks to meet European Union requirements and boost its bids to join the bloc, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet has reported.
Middle East

Islamic countries should cut diplomatic, economic relations with Sweden: Hezbollah leader

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Leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has called on Muslim countries to sever their relations with Sweden in reaction to the desecration of the Holy Quran in the European country.
Middle East

Palestinians call for international investigation into Israeli killing of teenager

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Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called for an international probe into the Israeli killing of a teenager in the occupied West Bank town of Sebastiya. More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the start of 2023.
Middle East

Huge crowds march in Israel as vote on judicial curbs nears

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Tens of thousands of Israelis opposed to a judicial overhaul sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marched to Jerusalem on Saturday as pressure mounts on his rightwing government to scrap a bill that would curtail the supreme court’s powers.
Religion

President Raisi says Sweden should bring insulters of Holy Quran to justice

IFP Media Wire -
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has stated that mere condemnation of sacrilege of the Holy Quran by the Swedish government is not enough, and that Stockholm should bring the perpetrators of the heinous act to justice.
Europe

Live Update: Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 515

IFP Media Wire -
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Middle East

Pentagon files reveal flaws in US claims about Syrian casualties in Daesh leader raid

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Confidential documents provided new details about one of the most celebrated US military operations in recent history — and revealed flaws in the Pentagon's claim that deadly airstrikes on the Daesh leader in Syria did not hit civilians.
Middle East

Iraqis attempt to storm Baghdad’s Green Zone over Quran burning

IFP Media Wire -
Hundreds of people in Baghdad have attempted to storm the city’s Green Zone, a heavily fortified area with a number of foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq’s government, over the sacrilege of the Holy Quran in Denmark.
Middle East

US Senate introduces new legislation to boost normalisation with Israel

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The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has introduced new bill aimed at strengthening normalisation with Israel through proposals with nearly $120m in funding, naming Saudi Arabia as a "key regional partner" that would be eligible for many of those programmes.
Incidents

Wildfires still raging in Iran’s west

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Wildfires are still burning in forests in Iran’s western Kurdistan Province, where local authorities have planned aerial firefighting operations.
Middle East

Israeli soldiers fatally shoot another Palestinian teenager in West Bank

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Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid on the northern West Bank town of Sebastia. It comes only a few hours after the Israeli forces killed a teenage Palestinian boy in the occupied territory.
Europe

Armenia’s PM says war with Azerbaijan ‘very likely’ unless peace treaty signed

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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that a new war with Azerbaijan Republic was "very likely" if the two countries were unable to agree on a peace treaty. He made the remarks in an interview with the French AFP news agency.
Europe

Russia says BRICS leaders to discuss sustainable payment mechanism

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Establishing sustainable payments mechanisms for mutual trade is among the key issues for the BRICS group of nations to discuss at their summit next month, the Russian foreign ministry has announced.
Europe

Live Update: Russia’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine; Day 514

IFP Media Wire -
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Middle East

Israeli soldiers kill 17-year-old Palestinian in West Bank

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Israeli soldiers have shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials have confirmed.
Middle East

Turkey’s Erdogan to host Netanyahu and Abbas next week

IFP Media Wire -
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will be hosted in Ankara during the same week, the Turkish presidency has announced.
Nuclear

Russia says prospect for JCPOA revival dim

IFP Media Wire -
Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov has declared that the prospects for restoring Iran's nuclear deal are currently extremely dim. He made the remarks in an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia published on Friday.
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