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March 9, 2018

Britain’s relationships in the Gulf are difficult, so caution must be the watchword

It was a tale of two protests. The first was on Monday, when pro-democracy demonstrators braved a blizzard outside the Bahrain Embassy in London to salute the arrest and...

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March 9, 2018

Israel rearrests Palestinian on day of his release from prison

Israeli authorities re-arrested a Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday immediately after he was released after serving a five-year prison sentence, according to official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa...

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March 9, 2018

France to provide $17m in aid to Lebanon army

France will provide €14 million ($17 million) worth of aid to the Lebanese army, to include training and equipment such as anti-tank missiles, an official said yesterday. The aid...

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March 9, 2018

Report: Saudi Arabia, Israel exchanged letters on Iran, deal of the century

Saudi Arabia and Israel have been coordinating on a range of regional issues, including Iran and the Palestinian cause, Israel Hayom newspaper revealed yesterday. The paper quoted an unnamed...

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March 9, 2018

Morocco arrests Swiss citizen over alleged sexual exploitation of minors

Moroccan authorities yesterday arrested a Swiss national who had an international arrest warrant issued against him over suspicion of sexually exploiting minors. According to a statement by the country’s...

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March 9, 2018

Court dismisses case against Mubarak-era tycoon in reconciliation deal

An Egyptian court has dropped a lawsuit against a Mubarak-era business tycoon who was accused of corruption in the wake of the 2011 popular uprising that toppled the former...

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March 9, 2018

Megalomaniac Crown Prince fails to win over Londoners with charm offensive

A political disease usually found in countries ruled by insecure megalomaniacs hit London this week: hello, personality cult. In the Middle East, the disease associated with regions in which...

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March 9, 2018

Iraq’s Shia militias formally inducted into security forces

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a decree on Thursday formalising the inclusion of Shia paramilitary groups in the country’s security forces, Reuters reports. According to the decree, members...

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March 9, 2018

Hamas gets one step ahead of ‘deal of the century’ with five-point strategy

Palestinian sources said that the Chief of the Political Bureau of Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh, outlined a five pronged strategy to counter the US-led ‘deal of the century’, in...

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March 9, 2018

Tunisia Central Bank Governor: National economy figures ‘very frightening’

On Thursday, Governor of Central Bank of Tunisia, Marwan Al-Abbasi said that “the wellbeing of the Tunisian economy are very frightening.” In a news conference at the bank’s headquarters...

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