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The Israeli Civil Administration is set this week to approve the construction of 2,000 new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, Haaretz revealed on Sunday. The...
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The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, denied on Sunday media reports claiming that it is discussing a long-term ceasefire agreement with Israel, whether in the West Bank or in...
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As was widely expected, US President Donald Trump's plan to resolve the Middle East conflict — the so-called "Deal of the Century" — is officially dead. According to Jason...
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German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, called on Sunday for a permanent ceasefire in the Idlib Governorate, northwestern Syria. Speaking to the German Funke Media Group, Maas announced that: "The...
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Israel's High Court is to rule about the Israel Defence Forces having female soldiers in combat corps, the Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. According to reports, a pilot programme...
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Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi signed on Friday the Parliament's joining of the Charter for the Implementation of the Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Strategy. The signing ceremony took place...
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Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) has warned that it may be forced to suspend all operations in the oil port of Zawia (west) and evacuate the Zawia refinery, in...
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Egypt and Sudan will start operating an electricity interconnection project linking the two countries' national grids on 12 January, the Egyptian electricity minister announced yesterday. Speaking at Al-Ahram energy...
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Egyptian rights Gamal Eid yesterday said that he was being "assaulted and tortured by plain-clothes individuals on the street, in front of passers-by." "Vehicle without plates, plain-clothes police officers...
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Ibrahim Munir, the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, announced his approval and support, on a personal level, for the Egyptian Accord document presented by the artist and contractor...
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US officials said on Sunday that air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group were successful, but warned that "additional actions" may still be taken in...
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The Libyan government said that they do not understand the UN Security Council's clear failure to face Khalifa Haftar's crimes against civilians and his destruction of public facilities in...
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Iraq High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) announced on Saturday documenting the kidnapping and missing of about 68 activists, against the backdrop of the popular movement that the country...
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Two Saudi men shot dead last week in the eastern city of Dammam were driving a car loaded with explosives and were planning an "imminent terrorist operation", the SPA...
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A Saudi Arabian court on Sunday sentenced to death a man accused of stabbing three performers at a live show in the capital Riyadh in November, state television said,...
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Greece's Prime Minister said in remarks published on Sunday that if Athens and Ankara cannot solve their dispute about maritime zones in the Mediterranean they should turn to the...
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Turkey's Foreign Ministry Saturday condemned the US parole granted for the murderer of a Turkish diplomat. A California court Friday ruled for the conditional release of Armenian-origin convict, Hampig...
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Turkey will definitely stay at its observation posts monitoring a cease-fire in northwestern Syria, and its soldiers there have orders to respond to any acts of hostility, said Turkey's...
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Libya's UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) on Sunday hit back at social media allegations on the presence of "Syrian elements" in the military headquarters in the capital. According...
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Halting production from Iraq's southern Nassiriya oilfield on Saturday by protesters will not affect the country's exports and production operations, the oil ministry said on Sunday, according to a...
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A Turkish military cargo plane landed in the Somali capital on Sunday to evacuate people badly wounded in a devastating truck bombing in the city a day earlier that...
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A missile fired by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group struck a military parade in Yemen's southern separatist-held town of al-Dhalea, killing at least five people and injuring others, Yemen's Security...
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Sudan's transitional government is to postpone lifting fuel subsidies, initially planned as part of the 2020 budget, the information minister said on Saturday, according to a Reuters report. Just...
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Libyan state oil firm NOC is considering the closure of its western Zawiya port and evacuating staff from the refinery located there due to clashes nearby, a statement said...
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Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group al Shabaab regularly carries out such attacks in an attempt to undermine the government
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Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned Saturday against attempts to create a situation in Libya similar to that in civil war-torn Syria, Anadolu reports. "They want to turn [the...
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Egyptian whistleblower launches new initiative for political reform, backed by president Sisi's opposition
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Iran summoned Kuwait's envoy in Tehran on Saturday to protest about Kuwaiti officials meeting a representative of a "terrorist group" and hosting an "anti-Iranian" meeting, Iran's foreign ministry said...
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Protesters broke into Iraq's southern Nassiriya oilfield on Saturday and forced employees to cut off electricity from its control station, taking the field offline until further notice, a security...
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Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Saturday named a university professor and former diplomat as prime minister as he builds a new government to handle political unrest and a looming...
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Iran has given six crushing blows to the US and its allies in the region, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military aide to Iran's leader of the...
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December 28, 2019
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Motasem A Dalloul
It was a very happy moment when the Palestinians knew that they would cast their votes in order to choose their representatives, after waiting a long time. They voted...