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Baghdad The United Nations praised the decision to give the Yazidis ownership of their homes, and confirmed that it is: “a great achievement for Iraq.”
The Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Maymoona Muhammad Sharif, said in a joint statement with the Prime Minister, Muhammad Al-Sudani: “The Iraqi government’s move enhances access to land rights for the marginalized population in Iraq.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
Damascus, Foreign and Expatriates Ministry on Wednesday condemned in strongest terms storming of Israeli occupation entity’s settlers and officials into al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards, calling upon the UN to condemn these violations and work to stop them and ensure that they do not repeat.
The Ministry said in a tweet that Syria condemns in strongest terms the storming of flocks of Israeli settlers and officials into al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards under protection of the occupation forces.
The Ministry stressed that these provocative practices are part of this occupation’s systematic policy by attacking the Palestinian holy places, attempt to obliterate their identity and seize them.
The Ministry held the Israeli entity and the countries which support it, full responsibility towards this escalation and its repercussions.
Syria calls upon the UN to condemn these violations, work to stop them, guarantee that they do not repeat and implement the international legitimacy resolutions on the occupied Palestinian territories, on top of which Jerusalem, the Ministry added.
The Ministry stressed Syria’s stand by the Palestinian people in their struggle to liberate their lands, restoring their rights and protecting their sanctities.
Source: Syria Arab News Agency
Mosul Civil defense teams recovered 8 bodies of the victims of the terrorist ISIS in Mosul.
A source in the Civil Defense told the National Iraqi News Agency : “The bodies were recovered from Al-Shaareen Market and Al-Midan areas in Old Mosul, and they were delivered to the Forensic Medicine Department.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
Beirut, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah affirmed that Syria’s and Iran’s steadfastness nullified and thwarted the US’s scheme in the region to fully impose its domination, ransack the wealth and natural resources of these countries and to confiscates their political decision.
Commemorating the third martyrdom anniversary of Haj Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the IRGC Quds Force, Sayyed Nasrallah said on Tuesday that “the steadfastness of Iran, Syria, and the resistance in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq thwarted the American schemes, which aims to ransack and loot the wealth of these countries, destroy their peoples, and destroy everything in the region, to start a new version, which is the economic war”.
Source: Syria Arab News Agency
Riyadh, The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) has added a wave of remarkable achievements across various fronts during the year 2022 in its pursuit to transform the Kingdom’s trade hubs into an engine of investment and economic growth while positioning the national maritime sector as a global logistics destination as envisioned by the National Transport and Logistics Strategy (NTLS).
A major milestone in this journey came when Saudi Arabia led the World Bank’s Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) for 2021, courtesy King Abdullah Port which had occupied the first position after coming second in 2020. However, it was Jeddah Islamic Port and King Abdulaziz Port that had registered the greatest leaps among Saudi ports in the annual list, with the Red Sea hub soaring to the eighth spot from a modest 53rd position last year and the Arabian Gulf port landing in the fourteenth place after finishing 102nd in the previous edition.
Its golden run in global indicators continued with a score of 71.33 in UNCTAD’s Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (LSCI) for Q4 2022, a 1.88 point year-on-year rise, which came on the back of the addition of nine new shipping services connecting the Kingdom to ports in the East and West.
The national maritime regulator also stepped up its efforts to upgrade the Kingdom’s trade infrastructure by signing deals worth over 2 billion riyals with industry giants to set up seven world-class logistics parks that will create more than 6,000 direct and indirect employment opportunities. Similarly, it had tendered 14 lucrative investment opportunities to develop and operate multipurpose terminals last year.
In a bid to expand its current portfolio of top-tier services from 46 to 150 and accelerate the push towards digitalization, Mawani had launched the Smart Ports initiative to automate operations and deploy 5G technologies across Saudi ports through agreements valued at over one billion riyals with a host of local and global partners in the tech. and logistics sectors.
Mawani’s ever-increasing roll of honors saw new additions last year, not least the National Industrial Development and Logistics Program (NIDLP) award for best performing national entity in international indices as well as the Deal of the Year prize at the 2022 Maritime Standard Awards. It further strengthened its organizational credentials by securing the ISO 31000 and ISO 22301 certifications in risk management and business continuity respectively, besides being conferred with the Qualified By EFQM recognition by the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), making it the first entity from the transportation sector to achieve this prestigious distinction.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Khartoum, King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) distributed yesterday 1,765 food baskets in the Republic of Sudan, benefiting 8,160 people.
This comes as part of the emergency food aid provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through the KSrelief, to those affected by the floods and the most needy families in the Republic of Sudan.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Korea to Lebanon, Il Park, accompanied by Defense Attaché, Colonel Jaeho Oh.
Talks touched on the military cooperation between the two countries.
Source: National News Agency
Riyadh, Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh Region, performed here today the funeral prayer for Princess Haya bint Saud bin Abdullah bin Saud bin Faisal Al Saud at Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque after Al-Asr (afternoon) prayer.
The prayer was performed by the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Chairman of the Council of Senior Scholars, General President of Scholarly Research and Ifta, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Al-Sheikh, and a number of princes, officials and a gathering of citizens.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Riyadh, The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced today that nearly 500,000 clients have used the social case e-notarization service through the Najiz.sa portal in 2022. In addition, more than one million verifications of client applications have been conducted electronically.
In a statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the MoJ clarified that “the e-notarizations cover child custody, endowments, marriages, and legal heirs.” The Saudi Notarization Law has transferred a number of such jurisdictions from courts to the notarial e-system, which contributed to increased automation and better client experience.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Riyadh, Hussain Al-Abdulkader, Secretary General of the Federation of Saudi Chambers, discussed today with Swedish Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Petra Menander a joint Saudi-Swedish economic action plan for 2023 to advance the trade and investment relations between the two countries.
They also discussed the prospects for trade and investment relations, advancing the cooperation between the business sectors of the two countries, as well as the opportunities available to Swedish companies in the Saudi market.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
Manama, BENEFIT, Bahrain’s electronic financial transactions service, has recently announced several security enhancements to the BenefitPay application with the aim of enhancing user experience when switching mobile phones.
The latest enhancements include prompting users to deactivate the BenefitPay account used on their old phone before activating it on their new device, as this step contributes to enhancing user safety and security, while limiting electronic fraud risks.
“As part of its efforts to improve and protect users’ experiences, BENEFIT is eager to periodically introduce improvements to its services and evaluate best practices,” Head of BENEFIT’s Business Development and Services Department Ahmed AlMahri said.
“In this regard, we recently modified the activation mechanism of the BenefitPay application in a new phone, as the new procedure requires that the user first cancels the activated account on the old phone before proceeding to install the application on the new phone, by selecting the Deactivate feature in the Settings menu on the old device.”
In the event that the old phone is not available for any reason or due to formatting the old device, the customer must visit BENEFIT’s customer service center at the Company’s headquarters in Seef District, where the deactivating process will be completed by a qualified employee after verifying the customer’s identity, he added.
“This measure is taken to ensure security and compliance with consumer identity verification regulations in order to protect them from fraudsters.”
BENEFIT Company staff will not contact consumers and ask for passwords, OTPs, or customer data, and if customers are subjected to such a situation, it is a fraud attempt, he warned.
Source: Bahrain News Agency
Baghdad The US Treasury Department announced today, Wednesday, that Iraq achieved the largest purchase of its bonds during the month of October of 2022, in more than 10 years, to be one of the largest foreign holders.
It said in its latest schedule, “Iraq achieved, during the month of October of 2022, the largest purchase of US Treasury bonds, at $38 billion,” noting that “the value of these bonds increased by 86% over the value of bonds for the year 2021, and it increased by 76%.” compared to 2020, and increased by 16% compared to 2019.
It added, “Iraq’s highest possession of US Treasury bonds was in 2012, when the value of bonds in that year reached $48.3 billion, after which it decreased by 29% in 2011.”
It indicated that “Iraq was the fourth largest Arab country in terms of the value of bonds after Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE, while Japan came at the head of the countries with the largest value of these bonds, followed by China second and the United Kingdom third.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency