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  • September 13, 2016

    Saudi bombs well in Yemen, kills civilians

    A Saudi airstrike killed 30 people on Saturday when it struck a well in the Yemeni village of Beit Saadan, a village in Arhab district. Witnesses said warplanes bombed...

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  • September 13, 2016

    3 Qatari soldiers killed in Yemen

    Three Qatari soldiers were killed in Yemen yesterday at the hands of forces loyal to the Houthis and ousted Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Qatar News Agency reported...

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  • September 13, 2016

    US soldier dies in Kuwait

    An American soldier died in Kuwait on Saturday, the US Department of Defence announced. The soldier was killed in a vehicular accident while travelling to the Ali Al Salem...

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  • September 13, 2016

    New case of mosquito-borne Zika virus reported in Israel

    A resident of the northern Negev region is being treated for the mosquito-borne Zkia virus, it has been reported. The man was overseas when he was infected, said Israel’s...

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  • September 13, 2016

    Security Council rejects UN project in Western Sahara

    The UN Security Council has voted by a majority against the international organisation’s proposal for a road construction project across the Saharan territories contested by the Polisario Front. Supported...

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  • September 13, 2016

    Why does the media insist on using the term ‘Islamism’?

    Islam is not an “ism”. Nor is it a geographic entity, a military force, a short-lived ideology or a movement that resurfaces temporarily and can be oppressed with the...

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  • September 13, 2016

    Row intensifies over Saudi weapons sale

    A senior British MP has intensified the row over weapons sales to Saudi Arabia after proposing a completely new report on the issue whilst calling for the reorganisation of...

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  • September 13, 2016

    Egyptian weightlifter Amany Ibrahim wins bronze in Rio

    Egyptian Paralympian weightlifter Amany Ibrahim has won bronze in the 69kg category at the 2016 Rio Olympic games, pushing up Egypt’s total of weightlifting medals to six. This is...

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  • September 13, 2016

    Call to expel Hungary from EU for ‘outrageous’ refugee policy

    Luxembourg’s foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has demanded that Hungary should be excluded from the European Union for its “massive violation of EU fundamental values”. In an interview with German...

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  • September 13, 2016

    Inmates ‘pardoned’ by Sisi for Eid, but not political prisoners

    A number of inmates in Egypt’s jails have been pardoned by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in time for the Muslim festival of Eidul Adha. None of the 550 pardoned,...

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