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August 24, 2016

EgyptAir makes $1.58bn losses since 2011

EgyptAir Holding Company has suffered losses of 14 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.58 billion) since January 2011, the Chairman Safwat Moslem revealed yesterday. In spite of the difficulties the company...

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August 24, 2016

UAE to deposit $1bn in Egypt’s central bank

The United Arab Emirates agreed on Monday to deposit $1 billion into the Central Bank of Egypt for a period of six years, the official news agency WAM said....

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August 24, 2016

Calls on PA to probe ‘extrajudicial’ killing of Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian rights groups and citizens have called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to investigate the death of a Palestinian after his arrest, Quds Press reported yesterday. PA security services...

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August 24, 2016

Sudan receives South Sudan opposition leader for medical treatment

Sudan has recently received the South Sudanese armed opposition leader Riek Machar for medical treatment, Sudan’s Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told the state news agency SUNA on Tuesday....

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August 24, 2016

UN warns of huge displacement crisis in Iraq

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned of a huge displacement crisis in Iraq with the approach of a battle to retake the city of Mosul...

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August 24, 2016

Iraqi oil minister asks foreign companies to increase oil production, exports

Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar Al-Luaibi on Tuesday asked foreign oil companies to increase crude oil and natural gas production and exports. Al-Luaibi, who took over office a month ago,...

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August 24, 2016

UN concerned over Kayed’s health

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) yesterday expressed concern over the deteriorating health of 35-year-old Palestinian hunger striker Bilal Kayed, a statement said....

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August 24, 2016

Palestinian-Israeli meeting in Cairo soon

Peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis are due to be held in Cairo, Palestinian Authority (PA) General Consul in Alexandria Hussam Al-Dabbas said yesterday. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper,...

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August 24, 2016

Is America losing Turkey?

In the dying days of Boris Yeltsin’s presidency, the great and the good in Washington scratched their heads and asked themselves: “Who lost Russia?” Post-communist Russia was more fluid...

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August 23, 2016

Water shortages hit West Bank

Palestinians living in parts of the occupied West Bank are suffering from a severe shortage of water as temperatures in the area peak. Palestinian Nidal Younis, the head of...

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