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March 19, 2017

Gaza courts sentence 2 drug traffickers to death

A court in the Gaza Strip has sentenced two drug dealers and traffickers to death today, the first such punishment handed down by the Palestinian judiciary in a narcotics...

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March 19, 2017

Haftar’s forces claim victory in battles in east Libya

East Libyan forces said they captured the final holdout of Islamist-led rivals in the southwest of Benghazi yesterday, ending weeks of resistance by fighters camped in a cluster of...

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March 19, 2017

Iraq army closes in on famous Mosul mosque, civilians flee

Iraqi army helicopters strafed and fired rockets at Daesh positions in Mosul’s Old City today as troops on the ground closed in on the strategic and symbolic prize of...

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March 19, 2017

Civilians bear brunt of US, Iraq assault on Mosul

Shihab Ayed and several other men struggled to push a cart carrying the bodies of his son and wife, wrapped in blankets, through a muddy ditch nearly three kilometres...

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March 19, 2017

Syria regime, opposition battle outside Damascus

Syrian forces loyal to the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad battled opposition groups on the fringes of Damascus earlier today in ongoing battles, after the insurgents against the Assad...

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March 19, 2017

Somalia asks Saudi to investigate deaths of 42 Somali refugees

42 Somali refugees were killed when a helicopter gunship attacked their boat off Yemen on Thursday, the United Nations refugee agency said, and now Somalia has called on the...

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March 19, 2017

Yemen’s Houthis say fired ballistic missile on Riyadh

Yemen’s Houthi group on Saturday claimed to have fired a ballistic missile on Saudi capital Riyadh, according to a local military source. The source said the missile was fired...

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March 19, 2017

Abbas to award Khalaf with Palestinian highest medal

President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday said he would award the highest Palestinian medal to former UN official Rima Khalaf for her courageous stand for Palestinians, local media reported. Abbas...

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March 19, 2017

The ESCWA Report: Guterres falls at the first hurdle

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s first big challenge has seen him falter, and fall. The resignation of the Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)...

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March 19, 2017

Halawet El-Smeed

This dessert has a special place in my heart, because my great grandfather made it for the masses in Jerusalem on special occasions, and my grandfather used to make...

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