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May 19, 2022

US to reduce aid to Tunisia as it’s ‘deviating from democracy’

The United States will reduce its aid to Tunisia after its government’s “deviation from democracy,” the chief of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, warned...

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May 19, 2022

Tunisia party files grievance to Venice Commission over president’s violation of election process

Tunisia’s Free Constitutional Party announced yesterday that it had filed a grievance with the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) over what it called “violations affecting the...

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May 19, 2022

Lebanon: high overseas voter turnout for election

The initial voter turnout overseas for Lebanon’s parliamentary election is put at around 36 per cent just seven hours after the polls opened. Iran and Syria have witnessed the...

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May 19, 2022

Forensic technical analysis of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh

In relation to the death of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, the following evidence was examined and analysed: available images of the crime scene, the Autopsy Report of the victim that...

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May 19, 2022

59.1m internally displaced people worldwide in 2021

Some 59.1 million people were internally displaced in 2021, up from 55 million a year earlier, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said today. “The situation today is phenomenally worse...

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May 19, 2022

Bush condemns ‘brutal invasion of Iraq’

In an apparent slip of the tongue, former US President George W Bush has condemned the “brutal” and “wholly unjustified” invasion of Iraq, when he meant to say...

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May 19, 2022

Israel: poll finds mistrust between Arabs and Jews increasing

A recent poll conducted by research group Israeli Congress, which studies Israeli society, has found that mistrust and hostility between Arabs and Jews in Israel is increasing, the Jerusalem...

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May 19, 2022

PM: Finland, Sweden want to join NATO ‘as soon as possible’

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said yesterday that her country and neighbouring Sweden want to join NATO “as soon as possible”. Following a meeting with her Italian counterpart, Mario...

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May 19, 2022

Israel’s targeting of journalist is a result of ‘impunity’, India journalists warn

Some 140 senior Indian journalists have sent a joint letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in which they condemned the Israeli army’s targeting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh....

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May 19, 2022

Oman: making Palestinian issue national rather than religious ‘big mistake’

The Grand Mufti of Oman, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Hamad Al-Khaleeli, said on Wednesday that turning the Palestine issue from a religious matter to a national one “was a big...

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