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September 24, 2016

Tunisian anti-corruption watchdog: Corruption up ‘dramatically’

Corruption has “dramatically” increased since 2011, Anadolu Agency quoted an official in the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) in Tunis as saying on Friday. Najat Basha, representing the NACC, said:...

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September 24, 2016

Algeria to impose new taxes to cover budget deficit

The Algerian government is planning to impose new taxes on its citizens and to raise VAT by 2 per cent as part of a draft budget for 2017 in...

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September 24, 2016

Hamas hails EU legal adviser’s blacklist removal remarks

Hamas, the Palestinian governors of the Gaza Strip, hailed the advice of the advocate-general at the European Court of Justice, Eleanor Sharpston, which stated that Hamas should be removed...

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September 24, 2016

Iran announces it holds sway over five Arab states

The chief of the Iranian armed forces, Major General Mohammed Bagheri, said that his country had been employing the military expertise it had acquired since the Iran-Iraq War to...

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September 24, 2016

Film review: The White Helmets

Finally granting the world an opportunity to see the human and heroic face of the Syrian revolution against the despotic Assad regime, “The White Helmets” achieves what many news...

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September 24, 2016

Iraq: 12 killed in Tikrit attacks

12 people were killed on Saturday when militants attacked a police checkpoint north of Tikrit and then detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the city, Iraqi police...

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September 24, 2016

Egypt highlights differences with Saudi Arabia over Syria

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has recognised that there are differences with Saudi Arabia regarding Syria, stating the reason is that each country has “different visions regarding changing of...

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September 24, 2016

Yemen’s Central Bank moves to Aden. So what’s next?

Just months after the 21 September 2014 coup, Houthi militias stormed the Central Bank of Yemen along with other government institutions and Yemen’s largest national newspaper, Al Thawra, in...

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September 24, 2016

Obama vetoes controversial 9/11 lawsuit bill

President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would have allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia. The bill passed the House and Senate unanimously in...

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September 24, 2016

Yemen’s president vows to extract his country ‘from claws of Iran’

Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi vowed at the United Nations on Friday to “extract Yemen from the claws of Iran” as he accused Tehran of impeding peace by intervening...

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