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December 21, 2021

Israel reports first known COVID death from Omicron variant

Israel recorded its first known death from the Omicron variant of COVID-19, according to Israeli news media which reported that an elderly man died in Beersheba on Monday, reports...

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December 21, 2021

Qatar targets $10bn of investments in US ports

Qatar plans to invest at least $10 billion in US ports and has approached international banks for financing help, three finance sources say, in an infrastructure spree that reflects...

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December 21, 2021

Dubai princess wins $733m from sheikh in UK settlement

Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has been ordered by the High Court in London to provide a British record of more than £554 million ($733 million)...

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December 21, 2021

Turkey’s cryptocurrency trades top 1m a day amid lira woes

The number of cryptocurrency trades in Turkey has surged back above one million per day as the country’s currency has plunged to a series of record lows, data shared...

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December 21, 2021

25% of households in Israel live in poverty

Some 2.54 million people in Israel, including 1.118 million children, live in poverty, according to a report released yesterday by the Latet non-profit aid organisation. Nearly 652,000 families – nearly...

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December 21, 2021

The PA has no politics of its own, only compromise

In October, US State Department Spokesman Ned Price opposed “the expansion of settlements, which is completely inconsistent with efforts to lower tensions and to ensure calm, and it...

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December 21, 2021

Israel levels Palestinian bedouin village for 14th time this year

Israeli authorities yesterday demolished the homes of the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb in the southern Negev region, for the 196th time since the year 2000. The demolition of...

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December 21, 2021

Kuwait deports 2 Egyptians for ‘financing Hezbollah’

Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior has expelled two Egyptians after interrogating them in the case known as “Hezbollah financing”, Al-Rai newspaper reports. According to the paper, the deportation of the Egyptians was...

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December 21, 2021

Saudi disputes reports that ‘potential terrorist’ arrested in US was a citizen

Saudi Arabia’s embassy in the US has denied reports that a “potential terrorist” arrested in the State of Arizona last week was a Saudi national. The 21-year-old was detained...

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December 21, 2021

Israel: companies sold weapons to China ‘without permit’

Three Israeli weapons manufacturers have been indicted for selling arms to China without a permit in what is the latest example of the rogue behaviour of Israeli companies in...

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