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November 10, 2022

Egypt: UN demands regarding prisoners ‘unacceptable insult’

Egyptian authorities have objected to a UN request to immediately release political activist Alaa Abdelfattah and prisoners of conscience, considering this an “unacceptable insult.” Egypt’s mission to the UN...

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November 10, 2022

Turkiye: picnickers chase away bear with stools

WATCH: Bear rescued after getting high on ‘mad honey’ in Turkiye...

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November 10, 2022

Algeria: judge issues prison notice to professors for Facebook posts

A court in eastern Algeria has issued an enforceable imprisonment judgement against university Professor Hakima Sabayhi relating to her Facebook posts. Sabayhi now faces six months in prison and...

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November 10, 2022

Tunisia’s Ghannouchi to appear before court in ‘state security’ case

The head of Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement, Rashid Ghannouchi, will appear before a court in the Instalingo case, his lawyer announced yesterday. Sami Al-Tariqi told IFM that Ghannouchi had received a “summons...

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November 10, 2022

Tunisia rescues 405 migrants in 12 operations

Tunisian authorities yesterday thwarted 12 migration operations towards Italy and rescued 405 migrants after their boats sank in the Mediterranean. The Coast Guard spokesman, Hossam El-Din El-Jebali, told reporters...

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November 10, 2022

Iran signs $40bn gas deals with Russia’s Gazprom

Iran has signed cooperation agreements with Russian energy firm, Gazprom, worth $40 billion, Petroleum Minister Javad Owji said yesterday. Iran’s official news agency IRNA quoted Owji saying the agreement...

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November 10, 2022

Israeli settlers uproot 120 olive trees in Ramallah

Israeli settlers yesterday cut down 120 olive trees planted on Palestinian-owned land in Ramallah’s northeastern town of Turmus Ayya. Local Palestinian resident Awad Abu Samra told that settlers from the...

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November 10, 2022

Gantz more worried about rising Israeli extremism than about Iran and Palestinians

Outgoing Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz told military journalists on Tuesday that he was not worried so much about Iranian or Palestinian threats as the rising extremism in Israel,...

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November 10, 2022

Iran: Reformist bloc calls for referendum to end crisis

The Reform Front, the main reformist movement in Iran, yesterday called for a “referendum” to end the ongoing crisis sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police...

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November 10, 2022

France newspaper depicts Qatar football team as ‘terrorists’

A French newspaper has published a cartoon depicting Qatar’s national football team as “terrorists”, sparking outrage across the Gulf country. The caricature comes days before Qatar is set to...

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