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March 9, 2017

Turkey to discuss extending state of emergency

Turkey is to decide if the state of emergency will be expanded for an additional three months, confirmed the country’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. Speaking to foreign media representatives...

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March 9, 2017

Israeli official asks UK to help release captured soldiers

Israeli opposition leader, Yitzhak Herzog, has called on Britain to help secure the return of the bodies of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul and the release of Avra Mengistu...

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March 9, 2017

Israel’s bill banning the Muslim call to prayer passes first reading

The Knesset yesterday approved the first reading of the bill which bans the Muslim call for prayer being transmitted through loudspeakers, the Anadolu Agency reported. The reading was approved...

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March 9, 2017

Israel arrests female Palestinian MP on women’s day

Israeli occupation forces arrested a female Palestinian PM in overnight raids carried out in the occupied West Bank yesterday. In a statement, the Hamas-backed Change and Reform Party said:...

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March 9, 2017

Saudi denies plan to send 2,000 students to Egypt

The Saudi embassy in Cairo yesterday denied reports issued by the Egyptian media that the kingdom had agreed to send 2,000 Saudi sponsored students to study at Egyptian universities, the...

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March 9, 2017

Iran’s FM in Qatar for talks

Emir of Qatar Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani yesterday received Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Doha. The two officials discussed bilateral and regional developments, Qatar’s official news agency...

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March 9, 2017

Early elections called as fears of escalating violence grip Libya

Libya’s eastern-based parliament has called for early elections following a collapse in a United Nations-brokered peace deal with rival authorities in the capital Tripoli. An open letter was sent by...

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March 9, 2017

Twin suicide bombings hit Tikrit, Iraq

Twin suicide bomb blasts hit the Hajjaj village, some 100 kilometres north of the Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing at least 30 people, mostly children, who were attending a...

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March 9, 2017

Women’s day in Algeria met with arrests

Algerian activists who had gathered to mark International Women’s Day yesterday were forced to disperse and arrested by large swathes of police as they demonstrated. Activists from the Tharwa...

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March 9, 2017

Iraq unleashes mass destruction, death & displacement on Mosul

Intensive bombardment and air raids by the Iraqi authorities and their foreign backers has led to mass civilian fatalities, the extensive destruction of infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of...

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