6. Saudi Arabia announces new guidelines for travellers with pets
• Under Saudi Arabia`s new protocol for passengers leaving the country with pets, they must first seek permission from that country`s government to ship their animals abroad, a spokesman for Pakistan`s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on February 19, 2023.
• He said that according to a notification issued by the Saudi government, airlines must inform passengers in advance about the new rules for shipment of pets.
• The General Authority of Civil Aviation`s (GACA) notification reads: `Airlines must inform passengers that it is necessary to submit import/export applications for animals through the new electronic link (https://nanma.sa), before travelling
7. US strategic bombers take part in air exercise with South Korea
• The United States and South Korea held a joint air exercise involving US strategic bombers on February 19, 2023, a day after North Korea fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a `sudden launching drill`.
• South Korea`s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the exercise, where South Korea`s F-35A, F-15K and US F-16 fighters escorted American B-1B bombers, demonstrated the allies` `overwhelming` defence capabilities and readiness posture.
• `(The exercise) strengthened the combined operation capability and affirmed the United States` ironclad commitment to the defence of the Korean Peninsula and the implementation of extended deterrence,` the South`s military said in a statement
8. Ukraine to get French armoured vehicles within a week
• France said on February 19, 2023 it will begin delivering the armoured vehicles it has promised Ukraine in its war against Russia by next weekend.
• The vehicles, of the AMX-10 type and sometimes described as `light tanks`, are used for armed reconnaissance and attacks on enemy tanks.
• The first vehicles will be sent to Ukraine `by the end of next week`, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu told Le Parisien newspaper`s Sunday edition.
• He declined to specify the number of vehicles in the first batch, saying he did not want to give Russia any `strategic information`
9. Israeli air strike leaves 15 dead in Damascus
• An Israeli air strike on Damascus killed 15 people early on February 19, 2023 and badly damaged a building in a district housing state security agencies, a war monitor said.
• Civilians, including two women, were among those killed in `the deadliest Israeli attack in the Syrian capital` since the civil war began, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
• The overnight strike cratered a road and wrecked the adjacent 10-storey building in the Kafr Sousa district, which is home to senior state officials and Syrian intelligence headquarters, said the Britain-based Observatory
10. Taliban plan to turn military bases into economic zones
• The Taliban administration will move ahead with plans to turn former foreign military bases into special economic zones for businesses, the acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs said in a statement on February 19, 2023.
• The acting commerce minister had said in December that his ministry was working on the plan for former American bases and would submit it to both the economic committee led by acting deputy PM Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and to the cabinet for approval.
• `Following a thorough discussion, it was decided that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce should progressively take control of the remaining military bases of the foreign forces with the intention of converting them into special economic zones,` Mullah Baradar said in the statement
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