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January 7, 2016

Egypt seeks $100m loan from Kuwait

Egypt has requested Kuwait provide it with a loan for $100 million to fund the electricity interconnection project between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Huffington Post reported yesterday. The project,...

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January 7, 2016

‘Hamas is ready for elections’

Hamas said yesterday that it is ready for elections and handing over the Rafah Crossing to the unity government, the Anadolu Agency reported. Hamas’s remarks came in response to...

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January 7, 2016

France condemns Assad’s siege on Madaya

France yesterday condemned the blockade imposed by the Syrian regime on the town of Madaya, near the Lebanese border. French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said: “While the 40,000...

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January 7, 2016

Qatari ambassador arrives in Gaza

Qatari Ambassador Mohammed Al-Emadi yesterday arrived in the Gaza Strip to follow up on reconstruction projects implemented with the support of his country. A source told the Anadolu Agency...

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January 7, 2016

Saudi Electricity Co signs $1.4bn loan deal

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) yesterday announced that it has signed an agreement for a $1.4 billion loan with seven international banks to be used as a back-up credit facility....

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January 7, 2016

Algeria loses $2bn a year to fuel smuggling

Algerian Cabinet Director Ahmed Ouyahia said yesterday that raising fuel prices may contribute to reducing fuel smuggling to Morocco and Tunisia, which costs his country nearly $2 billion annually....

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January 7, 2016

Tunisia to get new political party in days

The outgoing Secretary-General of the ruling Nidaa Tounes party, Mohsen Marzouk, said yesterday that he will announce a new political project within the next four days. Also read: Al-Marzouki...

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January 7, 2016

Palestinian church annex, added to settlement bloc

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon yesterday approved a scheme to include the seized church of Beit Al-Baraka into the illegal Gush Etzion settlement, south of the West Bank, Israeli...

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January 7, 2016

Criticise our mosque, Cameron? We could teach you a thing or two about British values

The British Government’s publication of the findings of the review of the Muslim Brotherhood has raised more questions than answers. By declaring it to be a “classified report” and...

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January 6, 2016

Hezbollah-Assad fighting forces Syrians to eat grass to survive

The Syrian town of Madaya in the western countryside of Damascus has been besieged by the Assad regime forces and Lebanon’s Hezbollah since July. Photographs of emaciated bodies of...

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