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May 17, 2017

Algerian airport maintenance staff start strike over wages

Maintenance workers at Algeria’s national airline company, Air Algerie, began yesterday a surprise strike action demanding higher wages. The strike led to the suspension of all domestic and international...

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May 17, 2017

Saudi rights group puts Palestine at top of its agenda

Saudi yesterday inaugurated the new headquarters of a human rights commission which placed Palestine at the top of its priorities. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir who attended the inauguration...

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May 17, 2017

Is Al-Qaeda forming a new group in Syria?

A short while ago As-Sahab Media, Al-Qaeda’s main media outlet, released a six-minute-long audio message purportedly from Ayman Al-Zawahiri who is the leader of the group. The message was...

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May 17, 2017

Israeli court sentences Syrian ‘spy’ to 14 years in prison

The Israeli central court in Nazareth sentenced a Syrian citizen to 14 years in prison on Tuesday, Quds Press has reported. Sidqi Al-Maqt from the occupied Golan Heights was...

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May 17, 2017

Algeria sets one hour for Ramadan prayers

The Algerian Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments has issued a directive for mosque imams, setting one hour as the duration to perform the nightly Ramadan prayers during the...

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May 17, 2017

Turkey MPs elect new judicial board under new constitution

Turkish lawmakers elected seven members to a reshaped judicial authority earlier today, pushing through a second of the recently approved constitutional changes that sharply increase President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s...

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May 17, 2017

Iran’s re-engagement with the world at stake in Friday presidential vote

Iranians vote for president on Friday in a contest likely to determine whether Tehran’s re-engagement with the world stalls or quickens, although whatever the outcome no change is expected...

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May 17, 2017

Libyan commander stages show of force on Benghazi campaign anniversary

Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar staged a large military parade on Tuesday for the third anniversary of his campaign to control Benghazi, as his troops fight to secure two last...

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May 17, 2017

US, Turkish leaders put best face on ties amid tensions

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told US President Donald Trump on Tuesday his country would not accept Syrian Kurdish fighters in the region but stopped short of directly criticizing a...

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May 17, 2017

Hard liner and candidate for Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi

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