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Muscat: HH Sayyid Shihab bin Tarik Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for Defence Affairs, received in his office at Al Murtafaa Garrison today Mousa Farhang, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Sultanate of Oman.
During the meeting, the two sides exchanged cordial conversations on a set of matters of mutual interest. They also reviewed bilateral relations between Oman and Iran.
Source: Oman News Agency
Muscat: The Advisory Authority of the GCC Supreme Council today held the second meeting of its 27th session in Muscat. It discussed working papers on studies entrusted to it by GCC leaders, notably the issue of energy security in the GCC region within the context of new alternatives and technical systems.
The Authority also discussed a strategy to protect young people in GCC states from the risk of drug addiction, as well as ways to maintain the growth of emerging markets and safeguard them against negative impacts of developments affecting the global economy.
In its last meeting, the Advisory Authority referred to GCC leaders its views on topics of its agenda for approval during the forthcoming GCC summit.
Source: Oman News Agency
9:00. Beirut Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop Elias Aoude officiating over Mass Service at St. George’s Cathedral Down Town Beirut
Source: National news agency – Lebanon
The Palestinian government media office announced the number of aid trucks that entered the Gaza Strip during last April.
The office stated in a statement, ‘The number of aid trucks that entered the Gaza Strip during the month of April amounted to (4,887) aid trucks, including (1,166) trucks from the Rafah crossing, and (3,721) trucks from the Kerem Abu Salem crossing, while only (419) trucks out of the total of these trucks entered the northern Gaza Strip
The office added: “The average daily aid trucks are (163) trucks, and this number is much less than the needs of our people, especially in northern Gaza, and it contradicts the American statements and (Israeli) allegations that talk about increasing aid trucks and entering of 300-400 aid trucks daily.”
The statement continued, “Although there was a limited increase in the number of trucks entering daily during the second half of the month, the total number of trucks did not change significantly due to the crossings not operating several days during the
month for various reasons.”
It pointed out: ‘The aid trucks that arrived in northern Gaza represent only about 8% of the total of these trucks, even though the northern regions are the most in need and most exposed to the food security crisis and there are 700,000 citizens, and this modest amount cannot meet their various food and life needs. And this requires work to increase the number of aid trucks arriving into northern Gaza and raise their percentage of the total trucks entering the Strip.’
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
A girl was killed after a stray bullet fell on her head near her house in front of a school in Area 55, south of Kirkuk
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
A woman died due to severe burns after she burned herself with white petroleum in central Kirkuk today due to family problems
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
Detachments from the Kirkuk Investigation Office of the Integrity Commission caught an officer with the rank of colonel at the Rahimawa Police Station red-handed in receiving a bribe in exchange for facilitating judicial procedures for a citizen
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
Citizens of Basra demonstrated today, Wednesday, near Al-Sidra checkpoint on the Basra-Dhi Qar highway, ‘to demand adjustment of the salary scale.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
The leader of the Sadrist movement, Mr. Muqtada Al-Sadr, called for the restoration of workers’ rights on their Day, describing the first of May as a Day (for agents) and not a Labor Day.
Al-Sadr said in a comment on the X website: ‘I am not exaggerating if I say that (May 1) is not a Labor Day, but rather agents Day.
Not because his idea is Western, nor because the worker does not deserve to have an annual holiday to celebrate, but it does not make sense for the worker to have an annual Day in our societies while he suffers from woes. He has no rights at all, but is robbed of his will and opinion and has nothing but a list of duties. There is no guarantee for him against the risks he is exposed to in his work here and there.
He added that he only has a few broken and frozen laws that do not provide fattening or help with hunger. He only has a handful of money that is given to him in charity by those with influence and authority from among the people of politics and governance, as if it were slavery. But
the worker still has his dignity and pride and is not subject to humiliation, corruption and injustice.
Al-Sadr said, ‘I am certain: If it were not for the workers, the nations would not have been built, and without their help, the countries would not have been built. However, they fell victim to tyranny, corruption, partisanship, and sectarianism. All of this is more dangerous to the workers than development and technology, which has displaced a lot of the labor force and left them in permanent unemployment from which they suffer, the old and the young, as in our beloved Iraq, which displaced the working class at the expense of partisanship, nepotism, artificial loyalty, dependency, and sectarianism.
He continued, ‘No, Labor Day is not just chants and speeches raised from here and there. Rather, the workers must be the ones who take the lead in taking the reins of construction, reconstruction, prosperity, and progress by restoring their rights, respecting them, raising their awareness, and mobilizing their
moral and material enthusiasm, whoever toils and works in our country only gets.
Sustenance does not die, as they say… and whoever lives in palaces and luxurious, cooled and air-conditioned houses, obtains the sustenance of the entire people through injustice, aggression, and corruption. So, good, patriotic, hardworking workers who stay away from diversion and evasion should be the first badge of honor in our beloved Iraq.
Al-Sadr concluded his comment by saying, ‘The workers are from the homeland and to the homeland, and I hope that they will not give up their love for the homeland, that they will not go abroad to serve countries that are not their homeland, and that they will not bow to injustice and corruption as we have accustomed them to.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
A fire broke out in a tire complex in the city of Kirkuk, wounding 13 civilians and a firefighter.
A security source said that the total number of injuries resulting from the fire was 13 cases who were hospitalized overall in Kirkuk, including 12 cases, including minor burns, they were given the necessary treatments and left the hospital, while there was one surgical case (injury to the head area). Medical and therapeutic measures were taken for him .
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
The National Security Service announced today, Wednesday, the seizure of about ‘one million and four hundred thousand’ narcotic pills hidden inside rolls of cloth in the capital, Baghdad.
The Service said in a statement, ‘With a qualitative intelligence operation characterized by precision and diligent efforts, and in coordination with the National Security detachments in Baghdad, a force from the Najaf Security Directorate was able to seize about one million and four hundred thousand Captagon-type narcotic pills secretly hidden inside rolls of cloth of different sizes, estimated at (440) in number.’ The roll was prepared for smuggling through a cargo shipping company.
The statement added, “The operation took place after obtaining judicial approvals and intensifying the intelligence effort, which led to the arrest of one of the accused red-handed on (30/3/2024) in his possession of receipts in the name of the goods transport company.”
He continued, “The accused was referred with the seized items to the co
mpetent judicial authorities to take the necessary measures against him in accordance with the law.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency
The Lebanese Army Guidance Directorate issued the following: ‘On 5/1/2024, following gunfire and armed demonstrations during a burial ceremony in the town of Bebnin – Akkar on 4/28/2024, and after a careful monitoring and control process, army units supported by patrols from the Intelligence Directorate carried out raid operations to the homes of those involved, arrested 10 people, and seized military weapons and a quantity of ammunition.’
The army stressed in its communiqué that armed demonstrations and shooting constitute a security breach and a threat to the lives of innocent people.
The communiqué also confirmed that the Army is in the process of tracking down the shooters, arresting them, and referring them to the competent judiciary.
Finally, the Army called on those concerned to make the required efforts and cooperate with the security services to contribute to preventing practices that undermine security, out of patriotic sentiment, especially in the delicate stage that Lebanon is going through.
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ource: National news agency – Lebanon