Section: Africa&ME
Tourism investors owe $180m to government
The Ministry of Tourism’s dues for lands allocated to hotel and resort projects amounted to $180m until the end of last year. A senior government official told Daily News Egypt that 600 investors have obtained land plots from the Ministry of Tourism over the past years and failed to pay the lands’ instalments due to low tourist...
Iran’s Shahab Zahedi Joins Olimpik Donetsk
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian striker Shahab Zahedi has joined Ukrainian club Olimpik Donetsk. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Ukrainian ambassador meets Egyptian officials to boost bilateral cooperation
Ambassador of Ukraine to Egypt Yevhen Mykytenko has met three Egyptian officials recently, including Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar; Minister of Public Enterprises, Hisham Tawfik; and Minister of Military Production, Mohamed Al-Assar. Mykytenko discussed with Abdel Ghaffar several issues of common...
Immigration to Israel rose 28% in first half of 2019
Immigration to Israel rose 28 per cent in the first half of 2019, fuelled predominantly by a rise in the number of Russian Jews immigrating to the country.According to a report yesterday by Haaretz – which cited figures from the Jewish Agency, an NGO which encourages Jewish immigration to Israel – in the first six months of 2019, 16,019 Jews from...
US Set to Formally Withdraw from INF Missile Treaty with Russia
The United States is expected to officially withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty on Friday, bringing an end to more than three decades of strategic stability amid calls to continue cooperating with Russia on arms control matters. US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the INF treaty becomes official...
Facebook says it dismantles covert influence campaign tied to Saudi government
People connected to the government of Saudi Arabia have run a network of fake accounts and pages on Facebook Inc to promote state propaganda and attack regional rivals, the social media giant said on Thursday, Reuters reports.Facebook said it had suspended more than 350 accounts and pages with about 1.4 million followers, the latest takedown in...
Facebook dismantles covert influence campaign tied to Saudis
London – People connected to the government of Saudi Arabia have run a network of fake accounts and pages on Facebook to promote state propaganda and attack regional rivals, the social media giant said on Thursday. Facebook said it had suspended more than 350 accounts and pages with about 1.4 million followers, the latest takedown in an...
Github Blocks Iran Devs to Comply With US Sanctions
By Jubin Katiraie GitHub, the world’s largest host of source code, has abruptly blocked access to the private code repositories and paid accounts of developers or companies in Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Crimea, and Syria to comply with US trade sanctions, but this has caused an outcry from developers who unexpectedly lost their work....
Japan drops off Netanyahu’s pre-election travel itinerary
While the Japan trip is now off the agenda, Netanyahu is still scheduled to go to Ukraine on August 19-20 …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Ukraine seizes Russian tanker stopped last week: prosecutor
A Ukrainian court Tuesday ordered the seizure of a Russian tanker stopped last week over its alleged involvement in a Ukrainian-Russian naval incident late last year, a military prosecutor said. …read more Source: The Daily...
