Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, June 12
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RIYADH -- Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday at a press conference to limit the upcoming Hajj season to domestic pilgrims only of a maximum of 60,000 individuals.
The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah decided to limit the availability of registration for those wishing to perform the Hajj rituals this year to citizens and residents inside the country only, due to the global COVID-19 outbreaks and the new virus mutations. (Saudi-Hajj-COVID19)
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RAMALLAH -- A Palestinian woman was killed on Saturday by Israeli soldiers at an Israeli army checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and East Jerusalem, medical sources and eyewitnesses said.
The eyewitnesses said that several gunshots were heard at Qalandia checkpoint near the city of Ramallah, adding that Israeli soldiers opened fire at a woman at the checkpoint and seriously wounded her. (West Bank-Palestinian Woman-Killing)
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CAIRO -- The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Egypt has sent a letter to the UN Security Council to reaffirm its "complete rejection" of Ethiopia's unilateral measures on the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
The letter sent on Friday accuses Ethiopia of frustrating efforts to reach a tripartite agreement on the rules of filling and operating the dam and attempting to impose "a fait accompli" on the two downstream countries Egypt and Sudan "through unilateral measures and steps that constitute a clear violation of the rules of international law," according to a ministry statement. (Egypt-UN-Ethiopian Dam)
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TEHRAN -- Iran has begun importing electricity from its northern neighbor Azerbaijan to tackle its power shortage, official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.
On Thursday, the electricity grid of Moghan in the northwest of Iran was synchronized with an electricity grid in Azerbaijan to feed 73 megawatts of electricity to Iran's power grid, Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, spokesman for Iran's Power Generation, Distribution, and Transmission Company, was quoted as saying. (Iran-Electricity Import-Azerbaijan) Enditem
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