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January 13, 2022

Egypt to build first gold refinery in eastern desert

Egypt is developing the country’s mining industry by establishing a gold refinery in the eastern desert region, the Petroleum Minister, Tarek El-Molla, announced yesterday. “Work is underway to implement the...

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January 13, 2022

Iran looking to expand economic links with Syria

Iran is looking to expand its economic links with Syria, sending dozens of Iranian commercial and industrial delegations to Damascus to discuss ways to develop economic cooperation with the...

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January 13, 2022

Tunisia’s Ennahda will participate in Friday’s protests

Tunisia’s Ennahda movement will not comply with the government ban on gatherings and will join Friday’s protests against the exceptional measures taken by President Kais Saied in July. Member...

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January 13, 2022

Only 50 homes destroyed in Israel’s 2021 attack on Gaza rebuilt, others remain in ruins

Palestinian Zeyad Abu Odah watched with a smile as his four-storey house, destroyed in an Israeli air strike in last May’s fierce Israeli attack on Gaza, was slowly being...

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January 13, 2022

Egypt jails women’s rights activist for highlighting harassment

Prominent Egyptian women’s rights activist Amal Fathy has been sentenced to a year in prison for posting a video on Facebook in which she criticised authorities’ failure to protect...

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January 13, 2022

Lebanon: Hezbollah demands Saudi Arabia should stop interfering

The head of the Executive Assembly of Hezbollah, Hashem Safieddine, demanded on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia should stop what he described as its “hegemony” over the Lebanese people and...

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January 13, 2022

Tunisia General Labour Union warns of strikes in 80% of sectors

The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) yesterday warned that strikes in the country would escalate to include “more than 80 per cent in the absence of social...

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January 13, 2022

Ex-Syria intelligence official jailed for life in Germany for crimes against humanity

A German court today sentenced a former intelligence officer in Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s security services to life in prison after convicting him of murder, rape and crimes against...

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January 13, 2022

Israel is worried about its secret deals with Kazakhstan

The turmoil in the Republic of Kazakhstan made Israel worried about its secret oil, cybersecurity and weapons deals with the Central Asian country, according to Haaretz columnist David Rosenberg....

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January 13, 2022

Sisi: Egypt spent $400bn tackling poverty

Egypt has spent $400 billion over the past seven years to tackle poverty, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday. Speaking at the World Youth Forum, Al-Sisi said: “There were...

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