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April 21, 2017

Weighing arms sale, US seeks Saudi pledge on Yemen civilian casualties

The United States wants new commitments from Saudi Arabia to improve its targeting procedures to minimise civilian casualties in its part in the Yemen civil war as it weighs...

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April 20, 2017

Israeli settler driver hits Palestinian girl

A 17-year-old Palestinian girl was injured today after being deliberately hit by an Israeli settler car in the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem city in the southern occupied...

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April 20, 2017

Israel detains Palestinian woman for 'incitement' on Facebook

Israeli forces reportedly detained a 22-year-old Palestinian woman from occupied East Jerusalem for alleged “incitement” on her personal Facebook page. Israeli media reported that the woman was to be...

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April 20, 2017

Are we asking the wrong questions about Daesh?

Before he launched his apparently ineffective airstrikes against Syria’s Sharyat Airbase, US President Donald Trump had a very different view of the conflict in Syria. It was a much...

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April 20, 2017

Rouhani to run in Iran's presidential election, Ahmadinejad barred

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his rival Ebrahim Raisi were both approved to run in May’s presidential election by a government vetting body, while former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was...

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April 20, 2017

Egypt's budget deficit hits $10.8bn

Egypt’s budget deficit has reached 195.8 billion Egyptian pounds ($10.8 billion) during the first seven months of the current financial year (2017/18), representing six per cent of the country’s...

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April 20, 2017

'European courts have no jurisdiction over Turkey referendum'

Any challenge by the European Court of Human Rights against the results of the Turkish referendum would be rejected by Ankara’s constitutional court, a senior official has said. Justice...

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April 20, 2017

Chechen troops ‘maintain peace’ in Syria

Chechnya’s President Ramzan Kadyrov revealed today that two Chechen battalions are currently serving as military police in Syria for two to three months. In an interview with Russia Today...

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April 20, 2017

Iraq may seek oil output exemption to fight Daesh

Iraq may seek exemption from a deal between oil exporters to reduce global supply in order to support crude prices and ask to boost its own output, the leader...

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April 20, 2017

Israel to lobby FIFA against banning clubs in illegal settlements

Israel is launching a diplomatic offensive against Palestinian calls for FIFA to ban football clubs based in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, an unnamed official said today....

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