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March 30, 2017

Saudi Arabia to launch digital education in two years – ministry

Saudi Arabia’s Education Minister Ahmed Al-Issa approved on Wednesday a government plan of shift the Kingdom’s educational system to the digital education in a move to support developing students and...

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March 29, 2017

Egypt’s Sisi to visit Saudi Arabia, US in April

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has accepted an invitation from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to visit his country in April, Saudi state news agency SPA quoted its foreign minister...

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March 29, 2017

Amnesty says UAE sentences dissident professor to 10 years

Rights group Amnesty International said a court in the United Arab Emirates had sentenced a dissident professor to 10 years in prison for online activism on Wednesday, calling the...

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March 29, 2017

Iraqi forces battle to Mosul mosque, 17 killed in Baghdad

Iraqi special forces and police fought Daesh militants to edge closer to the al-Nuri mosque in western Mosul on Wednesday, tightening their control around the landmark site and in...

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March 29, 2017

Israel to cut another $2m from its UN contribution

Israel said on Wednesday it would cut a further $2 million from its already reduced contribution this year to the United Nations in protest at resolutions taken against it...

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March 29, 2017

Fact-checking Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev

Israel’s Ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev, places a premium on speaking at university campuses. The context? Israel’s uphill struggle to assuage a growing sense of frustration and anger...

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March 29, 2017

Turkey ranks 5th largest trade partner of EU in 2016

Turkey was the fifth largest trade partner of the European Union last year, according to data from the Union’s statistical authority on Wednesday. In 2016, Turkey’s trade volume with the...

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March 29, 2017

US general: Over 280 Iraqi security forces members killed in west Mosul

The US military said on Wednesday that 284 members of the Iraqi security forces had been killed since the battle to retake western Mosul began, with more than 1,600...

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March 29, 2017

Report: PA police used unjustified force against protesters

A commission of inquiry established to investigate peaceful protests in the occupied West Bank earlier this month – when Palestinian police assaulted protesters and smashed equipment belonging to journalists covering...

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March 29, 2017

Sudan-US intelligence exchanges unaffected by sanctions

At first glance, this week’s meeting of Sudan’s Top Security Chief with the heads of the American intelligence FBI and CIA appears to herald a new phase in the...

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