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August 18, 2022

Saudi ‘snitching’ app may have caused arrest of Saudi mother, amid rising digital authoritarianism

A Saudi mother and PhD student who was this week sentenced to 34 years in prison for expressing her personal opinion on Twitter may have been incriminated through a...

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August 18, 2022

OPEC Chief says blame policymakers, lawmakers for oil price rises

Policymakers, lawmakers and insufficient oil and gas sector investments are to blame for high energy prices, not OPEC, the producer group’s new Secretary-General, Haitham Al Ghais, told Reuters on...

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August 18, 2022

UK heavily reduces trade tariffs for Syria regime, despite human rights concerns

The United Kingdom has announced that it will offer the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad a huge reduction in trade tariffs, in a bid to cut import costs and...

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August 18, 2022

Lebanon to deport Syrian refugees despite international opposition, Aoun says

Lebanon will apply its plan to send Syrian refugees in the country back to Syria, Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, said, local media reports. According to the report, Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, said fears that...

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August 18, 2022

Russia Jews head for Israel as Kremlin targets emigration group

In the hours after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Ilya Fomintsev, a 43-year-old oncologist and director of a medical charity, took to the streets of Moscow to protest. He...

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August 18, 2022

Will the idea of the ‘West’ survive the scourge of the Russia-Ukraine war?

The “West” is not just a term, it is also a concept that acquires new meanings with time. To its advocates, it can be analogous to civilisation and benevolent...

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August 18, 2022

Turkiye, Ukraine leaders meet in Lviv for talks

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Thursday welcomed his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the Ukrainian city of Lviv for talks, Anadolu Agency reports. According to the report, Erdogan...

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August 18, 2022

2 Israel men arrested for selling information to foreign agent in Egypt

Two Israeli men were arrested last week for selling sensitive information regarding a defence facility to a foreign agent in Egypt. The suspects, two relatives in their 20s, also...

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August 18, 2022

Egypt central bank governor resigns, becomes adviser to president

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi accepted the resignation of the Central Bank’s Governor, Tarek Amer, and issued a decision appointing him as a presidential adviser. Al-Sisi thanked Amer for...

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August 18, 2022

Saudi becomes first Arab country to sit on global chess body’s advisory board

Saudi Arabia has become the first Arab country awarded a place on the advisory board of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) which is the governing body of international chess...

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