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June 8, 2022

Algeria journalist sentenced to 6 months in jail

An Algerian court yesterday sentenced journalist Ihsane El Kadi, director of M Radio, for six months after he published an article on the right to participate in the Hirak movement....

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June 8, 2022

Israel ambassador elected as vice president of UN General Assembly

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has been elected to the position of the UN General Assembly’s vice president, in a move which is set to grant Tel...

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June 8, 2022

ITUC: dismissal of 57 judges is a new threat to freedom and the rule of law in Tunisia

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) yesterday described President Kais Saied’s decision to dismiss 57 judges, as a “new threat to freedom and the rule of law in Tunisia”....

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June 8, 2022

Sudan farmers warn of failing harvests as hunger rises

On the fertile clay plains of Sudan’s Gezira Scheme, farmers would have normally started tilling the soil weeks ago before planting out rows of sorghum, peanuts, sesame, and other...

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June 8, 2022

Lebanon’s patients face crisis as medical staff exodus

Outside one of Lebanon’s leading hospitals, desperate parents arrive seeking help for their sick children, while inside its pediatric intensive care unit the beds lie empty and unattended. There...

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June 8, 2022

Hollywood’s Mark Ruffalo praised for calling out PayPal’s discrimination against Palestinians

Hollywood A-lister, Mark Ruffalo, has called out PayPal Holdings for its discrimination against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, who are denied access to its...

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June 8, 2022

UK charities seek injunction to block migrant deportations to Rwanda

Human rights groups said they had today submitted papers at the High Court in London to get an injunction to halt next week’s planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, a...

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June 8, 2022

UK cinema pulls movie of Prophet Muhammad’s daughter after protests

A prominent cinema chain in the UK has pulled a movie deemed offensive to Muslims which attempts to portray events in the life of the daughter of the Prophet...

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June 8, 2022

UAE adjourns appeal of Arab-Israeli woman

An Emirati court yesterday postponed, for the third time, the hearing of an appeal filed by Arab-Israeli woman, Fidaa Kiwan, who was sentenced to death for carrying half a...

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June 8, 2022

Egypt imports record volume of gas from Israel

Egypt has made a new record high in gas imports from Israel in the first quarter of the year. According to the weekly newsletter by the Middle East Economic...

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