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November 9, 2016

Egypt’s rice stock sufficient for 16 months, official data reveals

Ragab Shehata, the Head of the Rice Division at the Federation of Egyptian Industries, overseen by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, said on Wednesday that Egypt’s strategic rice...

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November 9, 2016

Egypt’s military takes over running of smart card subsidy system

Egypt’s military has taken over the running of the country’s smart card subsidy scheme, the government said today, in the latest sign of the armed forces increasing their influence...

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November 9, 2016

Morocco jails farmers for protesting

Twenty farmers have been sentenced to up to four years after clashes with police in the Settat region of Morocco. Read: Anger over the crushed fishmonger continues, but are officials...

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November 9, 2016

UNRWA staff to strike

The union for local employees of UNRWA announced on Monday that a series of protests would take place across the occupied Palestinian territories after international organisations failed to meet...

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November 9, 2016

Syria: Regime takes Aleppo district as rebels fight to regain it

The Syrian army said it had taken a strategic district of Aleppo yesterday in what would mark the most important advance by the regime and its allies in the...

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November 9, 2016

Israel enters southern Gaza

Several Israeli bulldozers razed land in eastern Al-Qarrara in the southern Gaza Strip district of Khan Yunis this morning. Witnesses told Ma’an that five Israeli military bulldozers followed by...

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November 9, 2016

Israeli forces shoot Palestinian near Nablus

Israeli forces critically wounded a Palestinian this morning at the entrance of the village of Huwwara in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus after an alleged stab...

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November 9, 2016

UN appoints new deputy head of Libya mission

The United Nations has appointed a new deputy head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to succeed Jordan Ali H. Al-Za’tari. Maria do Valle Ribeiro is to...

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November 9, 2016

How do Palestinians and Israelis view Trump’s victory?

Once it was known for certain that Donald Trump had won the presidential election in the US, both Palestinians and Israelis expressed their hopes and expectations about a Trump...

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November 9, 2016

Kuwaiti court rejects Dashti’s bid for government

Kuwait’s Court of Appeals has rejected a ruling by a lower court that allowed former lawmaker Abdul Hamid Dashti to run in the parliamentary elections later this month. The...

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