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April 19, 2017

US drone kills 4 in Yemen – local officials

A US drone killed four suspected Al-Qaeda members in an overnight strike as they were travelling through the central desert province of Marib, local officials announced today. One said...

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April 19, 2017

US: Helping Yemen means stopping Iran’s destabilisation actions

Iran’s destabilising influence in the Middle East needs to be overcome to end the conflict in Yemen, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said today. Read: Iranian weapons boat captured...

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April 19, 2017

Israel kills Palestinian near illegal settlement

A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces at a junction near the illegal Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion in the southern occupied West Bank this afternoon. An...

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April 19, 2017

Syria evacuation resumes after bus bombing

The evacuation of thousands of Syrians from besieged areas resumed today, days after an attack on a convoy carrying evacuees killed over a hundred people, many of them children....

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April 19, 2017

Iran cements ties with Pakistan

Bilateral trade between Iran and Pakistan will reach $5 billion according to the Iran’s Interior Minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli. Speaking after the 20th session of the Iran-Pakistan joint economic...

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April 19, 2017

Israel prevents lawyers from visiting Barghouthi

Senior Fatah official, Marwan Barghouthi, who is currently on hunger strike has been banned from access to lawyers, Israel Prison Service told the legal unit of the Palestinian Prisoners’...

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April 19, 2017

Italy FM: Isolating Turkey ‘is not in our interest’

Isolating Turkey is not in Italy’s interest, Rome’s Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said yesterday. Ankara has a “crucial” role to play in the fight against terrorism and in military...

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April 19, 2017

Al-Azhar condemns media’s ‘unjust’ attack

Egypt’s top religious institution, Al-Azhar, issued a statement yesterday condemning the fierce media campaign against it in the aftermath of the twin bombings against two Coptic churches in Alexandria...

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April 19, 2017

Turkey: Referendum fraud allegations to be investigated

The head of Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has given assurances that the objections to Sunday’s referendum results will be evaluated and investigated in full. “We are going to...

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April 19, 2017

Jailhouse rock: Egyptian man gets engaged in court

Islam Abu El-Neel, accused of assassinating the former prosecutor-general of Egypt Hisham Barakat, got engaged to be married while he was in the courtroom dock. Abu El-Neel’s fiancée attended...

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