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December 31, 2017

Protests hit Tehran, 2 demonstrators reported killed

Street protests hit Iran for a third day running on Saturday, spreading to the capital Tehran with crowds confronting police and attacking some state buildings, and a social media...

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December 31, 2017

Turkey’s Erdogan to discuss Syria with Macron in Paris

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Paris on January 5 to meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, with the conflict in Syria high on the agenda, a source in...

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December 31, 2017

Christians in shock after deadly attack on Coptic Church in Egypt

At an hour that Sama’an Farag usually spends leisurely sipping his morning tea, the doorman at the Mar Mina Coptic Church near Cairo found himself springing up to close...

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December 31, 2017

Greece and Turkey locked in row over asylum for coup-linked soldier

Greece dismissed Turkish anger on Sunday over its decision to grant asylum to a soldier who Ankara accuses of involvement in the abortive coup against President Tayyip Erdogan in...

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December 31, 2017

Egypt security forces kill 3 suspected militants, arrest 10 others

Egyptian security forces killed three suspected militants in an exchange of gunfire at a farm they believed to be a militant hideout on the outskirts of Giza, the interior...

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December 31, 2017

Raid on senator’s home reveals divisions in Somali security forces

Masked men who appeared to be members of the Somali security forces raided the house of a powerful Somali senator on Saturday, but the government initially said it did...

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December 31, 2017

Egypt court sentences activist to 2 years over Red Sea islands protest

A court in Alexandria has sentenced leading rights activist Mahienour el-Massry to two years in prison on charges of illegally protesting against the Egyptian government’s decision to transfer two...

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December 31, 2017

Free Syrian Army subgroups unite to form national army

Around 30 sub-groups of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have unified under the banner of the country’s “National Army”, the Syrian interim government announced on Saturday. The announcement came...

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December 31, 2017

Sudan announces state of emergency in Kassala, North Kordofan

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has announced a 6-month state of emergency in the states of Kassala and North Kordofan, government news agency SUNA said on Saturday. The move is...

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December 31, 2017

Iran blames foreign agents for death of two protesters

An Iranian official said two protesters previously reported killed in the city of Dorud on Saturday night during anti-government demonstrations were targeted by foreign agents and not the police. “Violent...

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