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September 22, 2015

1m fewer tourists in Tunisia due to terrorist attacks

The number of tourists who visited Tunisia has dropped by nearly one million in the first nine months of this year to reach about four million as a result...

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September 22, 2015

Russia supplies Assad with MiG fighters

Russia will supply the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad with 12 MiG-29-M/M2 fighter jets until 2017, media reports have claimed. According to Russia’s Kommersant newspaper, the government in Moscow...

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September 22, 2015

UN: Egypt is world’s largest recipient of development aid

Egypt was the largest receiver of development aid in 2013, the UN reported yesterday, adding that the African state was paid $5.5 billion in that year. UN Secretary-General Ban...

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September 22, 2015

UN: War in Syria will ignite new wars

“The continuation of the war in Syria will inflame new wars fuelled by the desire of some countries to maintain their influence,” a senior UN official has warned yesterday....

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September 22, 2015

Iraqi PM: Protests are wake-up call to mend political system

The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi warned yesterday that the protests in the country are a wake-up call to help the government address the imbalances in the political system....

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September 22, 2015

Abbas gets ready to drop a bombshell

Mahmoud Abbas has promised to drop a “bombshell” during his speech scheduled for later this month at the UN; his bomb, however, detonated too soon in Tulkarem, only 30...

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September 21, 2015

Syria: Between Uncle Sam and the Russian Bear

The thick diplomatic fog in Syria has cleared up over the past few months, partly as a result of the lack of any new political horizons and partly a...

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September 21, 2015

Will Rabin’s dream of Gaza being swallowed by the sea come true?

The seemingly eternal Israeli-Palestinian conflict, especially in Gaza, which poses a continuous headache for the occupation, pushed the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to say in 1992, “I...

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September 21, 2015

Syrian warplanes bomb Aleppo, killing 25

Twenty five people were killed and scores injured by a bomb attack carried out by the Syrian air force in an opposition-held neighbourhood of Aleppo, according to opposition sources....

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September 21, 2015

Settlers storm Nablus, clash with Palestinians

Hundreds of Jewish settlers forced their way into a shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus in the early hours of this morning, triggering clashes with Palestinian youths,...

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