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February 1, 2018

Jordanians protest tax hikes, subsidy reductions

Dozens of Jordanians demonstrated in central Amman on Thursday to protest a raft of recent economic decisions by the government, including tax hikes and subsidy reductions. Protesters chanted slogans...

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February 1, 2018

HRW: East Libyan groups targeting displaced families, preventing returns

Armed groups, some linked with prominent Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, are preventing thousands of displaced families from returning to the eastern city of Benghazi, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in...

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February 1, 2018

France to finance exports to Iran, aims to sidestep US sanctions

France will start offering euro-denominated credits to Iranian buyers of its goods later this year, a move to bolster trade while keeping it outside the reach of US sanctions,...

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February 1, 2018

Sisi gives firm warning to Egypt not to boycott elections

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has given a harsh warning to anyone who plans to boycott the presidential elections in March, claiming that “whoever wants to mess with Egypt...

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February 1, 2018

Iran: Rouhani calls for respecting people’s will

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned the country’s leaders that they will face the fate of the late Iranian Shah if they ignore popular discontent. Rouhani’s remarks came in...

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February 1, 2018

Israel to probe Shin Bet officer for brutality for first time

Israel’s justice ministry has opened an investigation into a Shin Bet interrogator for brutality for the first time, according to the Jerusalem Post. Despite having established a unit known...

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February 1, 2018

UK lawyers call to suspend Saudi Arabia membership to UN Human Rights Council

Two British human rights lawyers yesterday called on the UN General Assembly to suspend Saudi Arabia’s membership to the UN Human Rights Council. Lawyers Rodney Dixon QC and Lord...

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February 1, 2018

Report: 39,000 detainees and their families abused in Iraq prisons in 2017

More than 39,000 Iraqi men and women and their families were abused and suffered sectarian discrimination in prisons in 2017, a new report by the Baghdad Centre for Human...

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February 1, 2018

Iraq arrested 290 officials on corruption charges in 2017

The level of corruption in Iraq came to light yesterday after it was announced that over two thousand arrest warrants were issued and more than $1 billion was recovered...

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February 1, 2018

Hamas thanks Lebanon for revealing role of Israeli assassins

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, thanked Lebanese security officials on Wednesday for revealing the role of Israeli Mossad assassins in the attempted murder of one of its senior...

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