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October 29, 2016

Russia-Egypt flights to resume in early 2017

Russian Federation Council speaker Valentina Matvienko announced that Moscow is interested in restoring direct air travel with Egypt. Matvienko added that the resumption of flights between the countries may...

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October 29, 2016

Fighting in Yemen’s Taiz intensifies

Fighting in Taiz has increased dramatically over the last few hours between Houthi militias and forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the local resistance who are...

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October 29, 2016

Libya meeting hopes to break political stalemate

A meeting on Libya in London next week will seek to break a political stalemate over the country’s UN-backed unity government, which has struggled to extend its influence beyond...

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October 29, 2016

Qatar working to achieve Palestinian reconciliation

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim Al-Thani confirmed his country’s on-going efforts to achieve Palestinian reconciliation and end the division lasting years. In a tweet posted by...

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October 28, 2016

UN launches negotiations to ban nuclear weapons

A UN General Assembly committee decided yesterday to organise negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons starting next year. The resolution is non-binding and the first of its...

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October 28, 2016

Israeli forces expel farmer from their land in Nablus

Israeli forces detained a Palestinian farmer on Friday afternoon, shortly after expelling several others from their lands while picking olives in the Nablus district of the occupied West Bank....

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October 28, 2016

Russia voted off UN Human Rights Council

Russia has been voted off the United Nations Human Rights Council in a stunning rebuke to the country which is increasingly being accused of war crimes over its actions...

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October 28, 2016

Turkey strongly condemns Houthi’s Makkah missile attack

Turkey strongly condemned Friday a missile attack by Yemen’s Shia Houthi militia Thursday on Makkah – a sacred place for Muslims, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. “We are...

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October 28, 2016

UN agencies: More than one million children starve as Yemen war rages

Around 1.5 million children in Yemen are malnourished and half the population lives in hunger, United Nations aid agencies said on Friday, three days after pictures of an emaciated...

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October 28, 2016

Mosul refugee: Life under Daesh control was an unbearable hell

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