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UK does not rule out canceling further arms export licenses for Israel
Faced with the criticism that the government in London faces because of its support for Tel Aviv, the permanent representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, Barbara Woodward, declared on Friday that her country could, depending on As the situation evolves, consider canceling more arms export licenses to Israel.
This emerged from a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, where she responded to a question from an Anadolu correspondent who asked her about the possibility of the United Kingdom taking additional measures against Tel Aviv, in light of the growing global consensus that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Woodward recalled that Israel killed 43,000 Palestinians in Gaza, that the enclave’s residents were repeatedly displaced and that even the tents of displaced people were subjected to Israeli bombardment.
Turkish authorities have firmly reaffirmed the complete cessation of trade with Israel
“The Turkish customs system is completely closed to trade with Israel,” insisted Turkish Minister of Commerce, Omer Bolat, in the face of mounting allegations that Türkiye is continuing its trade with Israel.
In a message shared on social media on Saturday, Bolat firmly reaffirmed the complete cessation of trade with Israel since May 2, 2024.
However, he clarified that trade continues with Palestine, within the framework of an agreement between the two countries, recalling that basic products are exported to the Palestinian territory from Türkiye.
“Our country will continue to respond to the needs of the oppressed Palestinian people and economically support Palestine in its just cause,” he insisted.
“As part of the mutual agreement reached at the request of the Palestinian Ministry of National Economy for the supply of necessary products to Palestine, which has approximately 6 million inhabitants and covers the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, exports are only permitted with the approval of the Palestinian Ministry of National Economy,” he added.
Ali Khamenei: ”The United States and the Zionist entity will receive a scathing response to their actions against Iran”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has threatened the United States and Israel with a scathing response for their actions against Tehran.
Ali Khamenei, in power since 1989, spoke on Saturday to a crowd of students in the capital, Tehran, on the occasion of “Students’ Day”.
The senior Iranian leader discussed Israel’s actions in the region and its attack on Iran on October 26.
”The enemies, both the Zionist regime and the United States, must know that they will certainly receive a scathing response to their actions against Iran, the Iranian nation and the resistance front,” Ali Khamenei assured.
He added that the general movement of the Iranian nation and the country’s authorities to counter “the criminal apparatus that rules the world order today will certainly not fail.”
$7.7 billion in investment opportunities
Investment opportunities of 7.7 billion dollars for Turkish companies which will visit Togo from November 15.
In a press release shared on Saturday, the DEIK Türkiye (Council on Foreign Economic Relations) announced the holding of a Business Council with Togo from November 15 to 19.
They will have until November 12 to register if they wish to participate, indicated the president of the Türkiye-Togo Business Council, Abide Gulel.
The program includes a visit to the towns of Aneho and the capital Lomé.
A mosque targeted by “an intolerable anti-Muslim act”
A small dead boar was placed in front of the mosque of Saint-Usage, a village of 1,300 inhabitants near Dijon.
According to information shared on Saturday by the prefecture of Côte-d’Or, a dead boar was left during the night from Friday to Saturday, in front of the premises of a Franco-Turkish association, which serves as a mosque, in Saint-Usage .
The gendarmerie quickly came to the scene to observe the facts and an investigation was launched, specifies the prefecture.
Last year, the premises had already been covered with anti-Muslim tags.
The Franco-Turkish association of Saint-Usage has expressed its desire to file a complaint.
Flood toll rises to 211 dead, 10,000 additional soldiers and police officers dispatched as reinforcements
At least 211 people have died in the devastating floods which hit the south-east of Spain, according to a new report released this Saturday by the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, while search operations continued to find the people missing.
This toll is likely to rise further, with many missing people still being sought, particularly in the carcasses of cars overturned by the waves and the tons of mud, which litter the parking lots, streets and roads.
The president of the Valencia region, Carlos Mazon, indicated the day before that there was still no official figure concerning the missing people, reports Le Monde.
”It would be imprudent to give a figure,” declared the Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, speaking to the Antena 3 television channel. However, ”it is probable, given the circumstances and the experts’ feedback (…) that there will be more deaths,” he added.
Army accused of killing dozens of Borno fishermen in response to Boko Haram
In Nigeria, voices are being raised to denounce a blunder by the Chadian armed forces who have mistakenly killed dozens of fishermen in the Lake Chad region, according to information relayed by the media.
These accusations come as the Chadian army continues the Haskanite operation announced by President Mahamat Idriss Deby in retaliation for the attack by a faction of Boko Haram, Sunday October 27, against a military base which cost the life of a forty soldiers, specifies RFI.
Contacted by RFI, Abubakar Gamandi, president of the Borno fishermen’s association, confirmed the death of numerous fishermen, killed during an air raid by the Chadian army.
But he is not able to give a precise number of victims, indicates the same source.
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