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  • April 4, 2017

    Libya reshuffles oil ministry

    Libya’s Presidential Council has announced that it will be reforming the Ministry of Oil and the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in what experts believe is an effort to limit...

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  • April 4, 2017

    Spain: $737m of Assad’s family assets seized

    A Spanish court has frozen dozens of bank accounts, carried out raids and seized property worth around $737 million as part of an investigation into the finances of Rifaat...

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  • April 4, 2017

    Italian company to build airport control tower in Libya

    The Libyan Civil Aviation Authority has awarded Italy’s state-run Enav the contract for the construction of the control tower and technical block in the Mitiga airport. €5 million is...

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  • April 4, 2017

    Trump’s son-in-law lands 16km from Mosul

    US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner travelled with a top US general to an Iraqi base 16 kilometres from Mosul today and voiced hope the city’s eventual recapture...

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  • April 4, 2017

    Syrian lives are worthless compared to ours

    While an aid conference on the future of Syria was due to begin today, in Idlib an airstrike killed at least 58 people, most children, and the cause appears...

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  • April 4, 2017

    Israeli officer who assaulted Palestinian man resigns

    The Israeli police officer who was caught on video violently assaulting and injuring several Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem last month has resigned, Israeli news website Ynet reported yesterday. Ynet identified...

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  • April 4, 2017

    Russia expands naval base in Tartus, Syria

    Russia will expand and reinforce its naval base in Tartus, Syria, allowing it to increase its capabilities to receive large submarines and warships. An informed source said the Russian...

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  • April 4, 2017

    EU refuses to move embassies to Jerusalem

    The European Union states will not move their embassies from Tel Aviv to Israeli-occupied Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as the capital of their future state. Read:Arab efforts stopped plans to...

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  • April 4, 2017

    US to end UN’s ‘obsession with Israel’

    As the US takes presidency of the United Nations Security Council this month, Council President Nikki Haley has taken the unusual step of announcing that she will end the...

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  • April 4, 2017

    Iran strikes Saudi using UAE, Oman airspace

    Iran sent drones used by Yemen’s Houthis to strike Saudi Arabia via the UAE and Oman, a British intelligence organisation has revealed. In a report quoted by IranWire, Conflict...

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