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  • May 23, 2017

    Saudi man performs Umrah for Trump

    A Saudi man has come under attack by social media users after he posted a video in which he declared he was completing Umrah, lesser pilgrimage, on behalf of...

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  • May 23, 2017

    Thousands of Algerian veterans march for recognition

    Thousands of veterans from the Algerian National People’s Army (ANP) took to the streets in the capital Algiers over the weekend demanding a better quality medical care for pensioners...

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  • May 23, 2017

    Trump reluctantly meets Libyan PM

    Head of the Libyan Presidency Council (PC) Fayez Al-Sarraj was able to secure a meeting with a reluctant US President Donald Trump in Riyadh on Sunday, according to the Libya...

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  • May 23, 2017

    UN envoy in Yemen comes under attack

    UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, was shot at immediately after his arrival in Sana’a International Airport yesterday, the Anadolu Agency reported. Ahmed was severely criticised by...

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  • May 23, 2017

    Third Force denies truce in southern Libya

    Commander of Libya’s Third Force, affiliated with the Government of National Accords (GNA), Jamal Traiki said his forces did not agree to a truce in the south to stop...

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  • May 23, 2017

    Sudan’s Al-Bashir appoints opposition leader as aide

    Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir yesterday appointed former Secretary-General of the Popular Congress Party, Ibrahim Al-Sanousi, as his aide, the Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported. Last week, Sudanese Prime Minister,...

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  • May 23, 2017

    Sudan PM vows to implement disarmament plan

    Sudan’s First Vice President and Prime Minister, Bakri Hassan Saleh, yesterday pledged to end the war in the country’s conflict areas, implement a disarmament plan, and provide guarantees for...

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  • May 23, 2017

    Bahrain security forces push into Shia leader’s village

    Bahrain’s interior ministry said today that it had launched a security operation in the home village of the country’s Shia Muslim spiritual leader, the site of a sit-in encampment...

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  • May 23, 2017

    Kuwait: OPEC to discuss 9-month output cut extensions

    Kuwait’s oil minister said today that global oil producers would discuss at their meeting this week whether to extend output cuts for six months or nine months, because not...

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  • May 23, 2017

    Egypt, UK hold military talks in Cairo

    Egyptian Army Chief-of-Staff, Mahmoud Hegazy, met in Cairo with the UK Chief of Defence Intelligence, Air Marshal Philip Colin Osborn, who is currently on an official visit to Egypt....

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