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September 29, 2017

Compromise sought on UN Yemen inquiry as Saudi pressure mounts

Seeking to win Saudi Arabia’s agreement to a UN investigation into alleged war crimes in Yemen, the Netherlands revised a proposed resolution late on Thursday, the eve of a...

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September 29, 2017

Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to life imprisonment

An Egyptian court sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide and 15 other defendants to life imprisonment on Thursday. They were found guilty of engaging in violence in 2013, although...

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September 29, 2017

Trump congratulates Merkel on election win, discusses Iran

US President Donald Trump congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her election victory in a telephone conversation on Thursday in which they also discussed the Iran nuclear deal, the...

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September 28, 2017

US air strike kills ‘several’ Daesh militants in Libya

Two US air strikes killed several Daesh militants in Libya earlier this week, the US military said on Thursday, the second series of strikes in the country in recent...

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September 28, 2017

US willing to facilitate talks between Kurds, Baghdad

The United States would be willing to help facilitate conversations between Iraqi Kurds and Baghdad to try to ease tensions between the two sides after a Kurdish referendum vote,...

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September 28, 2017

Lebanon’s MEA to suspend flights to Iraq’s Kurdish region

Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines (MEA) will suspend flights to and from Erbil airport in northern Iraq from tomorrow, citing an Iraqi government decision to suspend international flights at the...

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September 28, 2017

HRW: Iraq Shia militias committing more rights abuses

Iraq’s Shia Popular Mobilisation Forces illegally detained villagers near the Daesh-held district of Hawija in northern Iraq and subjected them to torture and ill treatment, Human Rights Watch said...

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September 28, 2017

Hezbollah flexes its muscles against Barzani

Live on Mayadeen’s “Hourly dialogue” programme, Iraqi Hezbollah Brigade spokesman Jaafar Al-Husseini fired scathing remarks against the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masoud Barzani. Though only a non-state...

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September 28, 2017

Qatar: We will not extradite Al-Qaradawi

Qatar will not extradite preacher Yusuf Al-Qaradawi to Egypt because he is “not a terrorist but a political opponent”, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al...

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September 28, 2017

MSF: Yemen medical staff working while unpaid

Government medical staff in Yemen received their last regular salary a year ago, international NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said, warning that a continuation of this will lead...

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