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The industrial sector, like other productive sectors in Sudan, suffers from many problems that have led to the closure of many factories and the displacement of thousands of workers. Among the obstacles facing the sector are the scarcity of energy and its high prices, especially electricity, and the devaluation...

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Three Southern Transitional Council (STC) fighters were killed and two were wounded on Friday in a Houthi bombing that targeted the Lahij municipality in southern Yemen, according to an STC military spokesperson. Southern Armed Forces (STC military formations) spokesperson, Mohammed Al-Naqib, told Anadolu news agency that "three soldiers were...

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has condemned the Iranian bombing of areas in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, describing it as a "blatant violation of Iraq's sovereignty and security". In a press statement made available to the Russia Today Arabic news website, the Ministry denounced Iran's attacks on areas in...

Lebanon will roll out a new official exchange rate of 15,000 pounds per dollar gradually, with initial exceptions to include banks' balance sheets and housing loan repayments to which the old rate will still apply, the Prime Minister said, Reuters reports. In a Reuters interview, Najib Mikati sought to...

Israeli occupation forces and right-wing Jewish settlers have attacked 15 mosques since the beginning of the year, Palestinian Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs Hatem Al-Bakri said in a statement yesterday. Bakri explained that these violations come as part of the occupation's policy aimed at allowing settlers to carry...

The Kuwaiti Public Prosecution today sentenced two popular TikTok influencers to lengthy prison sentences on charges of violating public morals in their social media videos. According to Kuwait's Al-Rai newspaper, the girls, whose identity has not been published, will be punished with two years imprisonment, in addition to a...

Sweden's Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) said on Friday that it had reversed a ban against exporting military equipment to Turkiye, following the Nordic country's decision to join the NATO military alliance and agreement to overcome Turkish objections, Reuters reports. Sweden and Finland sought membership to NATO earlier this year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...

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Cholera cases have surged this year, especially in places of poverty and conflict, with outbreaks reported in 26 countries and fatality rates rising sharply, a World Health Organisation official said on Friday, Reuters reports. In a typical year, fewer than 20 countries report outbreaks of the disease, which is...

Central Bank of Tunisia data showed yesterday that the Tunisian dinar fell to a record low against the US dollar, causing concerns about a possible decline in foreign exchange reserves and rise in inflation, Reuters reports. The annual inflation rate in Tunisia increased to 8.6 per cent in August,...

Germany's coalition government has approved new arms export deals to Saudi Arabia, despite the ban imposed as a result of its involvement in the war in Yemen. According to DW News, Germany's Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor, Robert Habeck, confirmed in a letter to the German federal parliament that...

Kuwaiti opposition groups secured nearly 60 per cent of the seats in the 50-seat National Assembly, according to the final results of early parliamentary elections announced on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the results, only 23 members of the previous parliament managed to keep their seats in...

Turkiye is preparing to take the Cyprus issue to the UN General Assembly in order to remove the obstacles to recognition of the breakaway state in the north, Reuters reports. According to the report, the framework of the strategy for recognising the pseudo-state was drawn up at the regular...

Iran has threatened to "take action" against celebrities who have in recent days supported the demonstrations sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. Iran has been shaken by a wave of protests, which have claimed the lives of scores of people, following the death of the 22-year-old...

The Turkish intelligence service has been conducting negotiations with the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus to define a "road map" on several issues, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has revealed. "Our intelligence service is conducting negotiations there , and we will define our road map based on the...

Turkiye will deploy more troops to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to protect Turkish Cypriots, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday, Anadolu news agency reported. Speaking at a youth gathering in Pamukkale province, Cavusoglu said Ankara is determined to protect the rights and interests of Turkish Cypriots in...

Tunisia's Court of Appeal yesterday postponed the hearing into the appeal submitted by the Public Prosecutor against a judge's decision to release 39 defendants who are under investigation for helping to send jihadists to Syria. Defence lawyer, Samir Dilou, said the appeal will now be heard on 13 October....

The Israeli Central Elections Committee yesterday approved a motion to ban the National Democratic Assembly (Balad) from running in the upcoming Knesset elections. The committee voted with nine ballots being placed to ban the party and five against the motion. The committee accuses Balad, led by MK Sami Abu...

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Some 820 people including politicians have been charged in the case of sending jihadists to Syria, a judicial official in Tunisia said yesterday. The official spokesman of the Court of Appeal in the capital, Habib Tarkhani, added that the number is likely to increase. The president of the Ennahda...

For the first time in its long history, NATO's unity is under threat as a result of the rift between two of its members; Turkiye and Greece and their manoeuvres in the Aegean Sea. The latest crisis between the two began in August when Turkiye accused its neighbour of...

The General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the Israeli aggression on Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank which resulted in the death of four Palestinians and dozens being injured, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. "This crime and other previous repeated Israeli...

The United States, on Thursday, imposed sanctions on companies it accused of involvement in Iran's petrochemical and petroleum trade, including some based in China and India, pressuring Tehran as it seeks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Reuters reports. US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said in a...

The French Ambassador to Morocco, Helen Le Gall, said Thursday she was ending her tenure in the North African nation, Anadolu News Agency reports. The diplomat said her 3-year tenure in Morocco was full of "fruitful cooperation and rich meetings." Morocco: Parliament denounces EP resolution on migration crisis with...

The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly was, in many ways, similar to the 76th session and many other previous sessions: at best, a stage for rosy rhetoric that is rarely followed by tangible action or, at worse, a mere opportunity for some world leaders to score...

Turkiye is set to reinforce its military presence of 40,000 troops in northern Cyprus with more arms and equipment, following the United States' lifting of an arms embargo off the island. Speaking to CNN Turk in a televised interview, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the lifting of the...

Shadi Abu Nasser, graduate in English literature, has been working in the book trade field since 2007 up to now. He began to work in the field of books by chance, due to financial difficulties while he was preparing for high school in 2006. Nasser says: I had a...

Fans attending the World Cup in Qatar must show proof of a negative COVID-19 test, regardless of their vaccination status, organisers said in a statement on Thursday, Reuters reports. All visitors aged six and over must present a negative result from a PCR test taken within 48 hours before...

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced two police officers to six years in prison after they were found guilty of torturing Mahmoud Khamis Gaber to death while he was in police custody. The Minya Criminal Court heard that the torture included electric shocks and sexual abuse. Two other suspects...

A 7-year-old Palestinian child died, Thursday, while being chased by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, according to the Health Ministry, Anadolu News Agency reports. A Ministry statement said Rayyan Suleiman, from the town of Tuqu near Bethlehem city, had fallen from a height while running away from...

A deadly Israeli police raid at a refugee camp highlights the need to re-launch talks between Israel and Palestine because "ordinary people are paying the price" in the peace process between the two sides, a EU's Foreign Affairs spokesman said Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Peter Stano told reporters...

A group of Israeli settlers protected by the Israeli army attacked a house in the occupied West Bank village of Madama yesterday. At least 21 Palestinians were injured during the attack. Eyewitnesses said that the Jewish settlers attacked the house with stones and sticks. They added that around 20...

French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri has gone on hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention by Israel. This cruel and unjust practice means that prisoners can be held indefinitely with neither charge nor trial by the occupation authorities. Human rights defender Hamouri was detained at his home in the...

19 people in northern Morocco have died of poisoning after drinking contaminated alcoholic drinks, local media reported on Wednesday. Several news websites said that the city of Al-Qasr Al-Kabir witnessed the death of nine people on Tuesday after drinking "bad alcohol". The Al-Youm 24 website quoted the local representative...

The government in France has announced that it is closing another mosque. Media reports yesterday said that the closure of the Obernai Mosque in the Bas-Rhin region is because the Imam has been accused of extremism, taking an anti-French position and making provocative comments against the values of the...

The CEO of the Qatar World Cup, Nasser Al-Khater, said he expects to reap profits of up to $9 billion from organising the 2022 World Cup. During an interview with the Baad Ams (After Yesterday) podcast on Al Jazeera on Tuesday, Al-Khater said that the cost of the World...

Kuwaiti voters began to cast ballots on Thursday in the Gulf country's parliamentary elections, Anadolu News Agency reports. Polling stations opened at 08:00 a.m., local time, (0600GMT) and will close at 08:00 p.m. (1800GMT). Some 795,911 voters are eligible to cast vote in Thursday's polls to elect members of...

The European Union yesterday expressed its concern over the escalation of violence in the West Bank city of Jenin, warning that the situation is already "very fragile". "Deploring the loss of life and alarmed by the spike in violence today in Jenin following ISF incursions with several...

A political bloc of five parties in Tunisia expressed on Wednesday its categorical rejection of the "coup authority's" iron-fist policy and security solutions in the face of growing civil society movements and the regime's apparent inability to address the economic crisis. The bloc consists of the Labour and Republican...

A United Nations Envoy has acknowledged that Israel continues to defy a Resolution by the UN Security Council (UNSC) to immediately cease all activity in building illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, as Tel Aviv has advanced plans for the construction of almost 2,000 housing units for settlements...

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The opening of the Karameh crossing between Jordan and Israel for operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week, has been postponed, US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said during a press conference held in Jerusalem yesterday. The opening of the Karameh crossing (The Allenby/King Hussein Bridge) was postponed...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have gathered as a delegation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) to voice their support for Palestinian civil society and fight against Israel's abusive and prolonged occupation, annexation, impunity and apartheid. The NGO delegation described...

An International Economic Summit featuring experts from across the world began in the Turkish metropolis, Istanbul, on Thursday to discuss the major shifts that have hit the global economy in recent years, Anadolu News Agency reports. At the one-day event, titled "Economic Transformation and New Paradigms", world-renowned academics from...

The inflation rate in Algeria increased to 9.6 per cent at the end of August, amid the rise in the prices of basic commodities globally and its impact on local markets, Anadolu reported. Deputy Director-General of the Algerian National Office of Statistics, Hamid Zaydouni, revealed the rate during a...

Meeting in the capital, Beirut, Lebanon's Parliament on Thursday failed to elect a new president, threatening to deepen the country's continuing crises, Anadolu News Agency reports. Candidate, Michel Mouawad, backed by the Lebanese Forces Party, failed to get the necessary votes to win the post, and pushed to hold...

The Israeli army has green lighted the use of armed drones to carry out assassinations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Army Chief, Aviv Kochavi, gave his approval to use the armed drones for assassinations and "to carry out...

Israel has said it is "ready" to share its nuclear technology with Arab countries that have normalised relations with it, according to Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) Director General Moshe Edri. Edri made the comments yesterday during an address to the 66th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy...

Palestinian fishermen in Gaza have started to send fish to the occupied West Bank, after Israel lifted the fishing ban recently.The ban on fishing and selling fish had been in place for about one and a half months, since Israel's last attack on Gaza on 5 August. Although the...