LONDON, 23 October 2022, (TON): Yemen’s National Defense Council held an emergency meeting, headed by President Rashad Al-Alimi, to deal with the repercussions of a Houthi drone attack on a southern oil terminal in Hadramout province a day earlier.
During the meeting, the council took a number of firm decisions to deter such criminal attacks and authorized the government to immediately implement them in accordance with a “time-line defensive, diplomatic and economic plan to protect the interests of the Yemeni people” and thwart all destructive attempts by the Iran-backed group.
The meeting, which was attended by the Presidential Council, heads of legislative, executive and advisory authorities, and the governors of Hadramout and Shabwa, heard a number of briefings and reports from members of the defense council and both governors, and the options available to deal with these threats that “target international peace and security, and exacerbate the human suffering of the Yemeni people.

KHERSON, 23 October 2022, (TON): Pro-Russian authorities urged residents in the southern Kherson region, which Moscow claims to have annexed, to leave the main city immediately in the face of Kyiv’s advancing counter-offensive.
It comes as President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched 36 rockets overnight in a massive attack on Ukraine, following reported strikes on energy infrastructure that resulted in power outages across the country.
Kyiv’s forces have been advancing along the west bank of the Dnieper river, toward the Kherson region’s eponymous main city.

RAMALLAH, 23 October 2022, (TON): Officials in Palestine have welcomed the UN’s appeal to Israel to end the administrative detention of Palestinian detainees.
Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission, lauded the UN move.
He told media "the Palestinian Authority has made similar appeals for several years and has repeatedly urged international organizations and allied countries to pressure Israel into ending the detention practice."
Abu Bakr said "Israel uses administrative detention imprisoning a person without trial for a period of six months to clamp down on Palestinian activism."

PERTH, 23 October 2022, (TON): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned that Russia using nuclear weapons would be seen as an act of hostility against humanity, describing President Vladimir Putin’s saber rattling as “deeply disturbing.”
Kishida, who leads the only country ever hit with a nuclear bomb said “Russia’s act of threatening the use of nuclear weapons is a serious threat to the peace and security of the international community and absolutely unacceptable."
In May next year, Kishida is expected to host leaders from the G7 countries in Hiroshima, where a US nuclear bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, resulting in the deaths of 140,000 people.
The Japanese city of Nagasaki was hit three days later.

LONDON, 23 October 2022, (TON): Conservative rivals Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak held face-to-face talks late Saturday, reports said, as the feuding pair who once headed Britain’s government were poised to battle for the leadership of their fractured ruling party.
Former prime minister Johnson, who returned from a Caribbean holiday earlier in the day aiming to launch an audacious political comeback just weeks after leaving office, met ex-finance minister Sunak to discuss the race.
Both are yet to declare they will run to replace outgoing leader Liz Truss, who announced she would stand down just 44 tempestuous days into her tenure.
It is thought to be their first in-person discussions in months, following a spectacular falling out after Sunak’s July resignation helped trigger the government mutiny that ultimately prompted Johnson’s ousting.

RIYADH, 23 October 2022, (TON): The 12th session of the Islamic Conference of Information Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation began in Istanbul.
At the beginning of the opening session, Saudi Arabia handed over the chairmanship of the conference to Turkey.
Saudi Media Minister Majid Al-Qasabi highlighted the challenges that the world is facing, and the need to coordinate efforts among OIC member states to confront them. He called for developing a trust-based road map with clear mechanisms to advance joint Islamic action.
OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha addressed the opening session of the conference, held under the theme of “Combating Disinformation and Islamophobia in the Post-Truth Era.”

DHAKA, 23 October 2022, (TON): Global leaders are preparing for the COP27 next month to take action towards achieving collective climate goals set under Paris Agreement and the Convention.
The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or ‘COP27’, will build on the outcomes of COP26 to deliver action on an array of issues critical to tackling the climate emergency.
These are urgently reducing greenhouse gas emissions, building resilience and adapting to the inevitable impacts of climate change, and delivering on the commitments to finance climate action in developing countries.
Officials said "Bangladesh will reiterate its call to materialize the pledge of providing US$ 100 billion funds per year to developing countries at the earliest."

KABUL, 23 October 2022, (TON): Japan's foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said "during a press conference in Tokyo that his country had resumed limited diplomatic relations with Afghanistan after a hiatus of more than a year."
According to Hayashi, the Japanese embassy in Kabul will limit their activities.
He continued "at the moment, the Japanese Embassy in Kabul has begun its limited activity and is doing the minimum necessary work. For security reasons, I refrain from mentioning the details."
Hayashi noted that other aspects will be taken into consideration before deciding to launch a complete diplomatic presence in Kabul.

DHAKA, 23 October 2022, (TON): Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said "People in rural Bangladesh have some money in their pockets now even amid the global crisis because of the special policies of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, including the social safety net program."
He added "she has been providing funds even to the poorest of the poor. And it's being done through Digital Bangladesh. These poor people get money directly."
Momen was speaking at the program "The Mind Behind the Miracle: Sheikh Hasina Leads Developments" organized by the Awami League at a city hotel where diplomats of different countries stationed in Dhaka were also present.
The foreign minister said "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina decided that no one in Bangladesh would remain homeless."

DHAKA, 23 October 2022, (TON): Japanese Ambassador in Bangladesh Ito Naoki said "Chattogram will become an industrial centre after completion of ongoing projects, which include Matarbari port, Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway, and the power plants.
Speaking as chief guest, he said this yesterday at an event organised on the occasion of 50 years of Japan-Bangladesh diplomatic relationship at Radisson Blu Chattogram Bay View.
He said "Chattogram city continues to attract foreign direct investment from Japan and will play an important role in the further growth of Bangladesh's economy."
Ambassador Naoki said "10 Japanese companies are doing business in Chattogram EPZ and Karnaphuli EPZ."