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February 27, 2018

Egypt birth rate down 62% in 3 years

Egypt’s birth rate has fallen by 62 per cent over the last three years, the country’s health ministry announced yesterday. According to the ministry official data, the country’s birth...

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February 27, 2018

HRW: Egypt must halt arbitrary arrests of opposition

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned the Egyptian authorities for a series of “arbitrary” arrests that have been carried out against a number of political opponents to President Abdel...

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February 27, 2018

Iraqi security forces kill 2 Daesh terrorists in Kirkuk

Iraqi security forces killed two Daesh terrorists late Monday in the Hawija district of Kirkuk province, Anadolu reports. Muntazar es-Saadi, media spokesman for the Second Division of the Counterterrorism...

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February 27, 2018

Russia orders daily truce for evacuations from Syria’s eastern Ghouta

Russia said on Monday it would establish an evacuation corridor and implement a five-hour daily truce to allow people to leave Syria’s eastern Ghouta, after a UN Security Council...

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February 27, 2018

Russia vetoes Western effort to call out Iran over Yemen at UN

Russia on Monday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called out Iran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of Yemen’s Houthi...

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February 27, 2018

Morocco’s king undergoes heart surgery

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI underwent successful heart surgery in France on Monday, state news agency MAP said. The 54-year old king was treated at a Paris clinic after suffering...

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February 27, 2018

Saudi reshuffles top military posts, adds a woman deputy minister

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman reshuffled some of the kingdom’s top military officers and several deputy ministers on Monday in a broad shakeup seen as elevating younger officials in key...

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February 26, 2018

Baghdad extends flight ban into Kurd region

A federal ban on international flights into and out of northern Iraq’s Kurdish region has been extended by three months, a local aviation source said Monday. Talwan Siveyli, a...

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February 26, 2018

Saudi envoy invites Lebanon’s PM Hariri to kingdom

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has been invited to Saudi Arabia, his office said on Monday, setting the stage for his first visit since he abruptly resigned there in...

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February 26, 2018

Lebanon’s Aoun: Israeli tax plan ‘targets Christians’

Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Monday described Israel’s plan to impose property taxes on Jerusalem’s churches as “the systematic targeting of the Christian presence in the occupied Palestinian territories”. In...

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