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December 8, 2021

Following bombing of Syria, Israel PM: ‘We are fighting off forces of evil’

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday, following his country’s bombing of Latakia Port in Syria, that Tel Aviv is fighting off the forces of evil, the Jerusalem Post reported. “We are fighting off the forces of...

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December 8, 2021

Israel travel bans on Palestine journalists condemned by rights groups

Two prominent international rights groups yesterday condemned travel bans imposed by Israel on Palestinian journalists, which mean they are unable to leave the Gaza Strip or the West Bank....

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December 8, 2021

They treated me like a criminal for speaking the truth: says Syrian journalist detained in Jordan

It was an ordinary Monday morning in Jordan when they came for me. At around 11:30am on 15 November, the doorbell rang. I wasn’t expecting anyone, but to my...
December 8, 2021

PA calls for probing Israel’s disposal of hazardous nuclear waste in the occupied territories

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday called for probing Israel’s burial of hazardous nuclear and chemical waste in the occupied Palestinian territories, Arab48 reported. During a conference about Climate Change held in Ramallah and...

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December 8, 2021

Remember this: it will be Israel, not Iran, which destroys any new nuclear deal

World leaders have been trying desperately to salvage the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+ countries: the US, Britain, China, Russia,...

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December 8, 2021

Shin Bet recognises failure in background check of Gantz’s cleaner

Internal Israeli security service, Shin Bet, identified several points of failure in the way it completed the background check of Defence Minister Benny Gantz’s cleaners, local media reported yesterday....

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December 7, 2021

EU dismisses request to lift sanctions from Syrian businessman affiliated with Assad

The European Union’s (EU) General Court has dismissed a Syrian businessman’s application to have his sanctions lifted, ruling that he remains a prominent business associate of the Syrian regime...

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December 7, 2021

Why are Lebanon’s politicians fighting the Beirut port blast probe?

An investigation into last year’s Beirut blast is set to resume after a court rejected the last of several lawsuits that had led the probe to be suspended for...

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December 7, 2021

Shadow payment system on rise among European people smugglers

When Kaiwan Hussein, a 26-year-old from Iraqi Kurdistan, arrived in Germany on 23 November, after he slipped across the European Union border from Belarus, he sent a one-word WhatsApp...

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December 7, 2021

FM: Geneva sisters repatriated from Syrian Desert camp

Two Swiss half-sisters, whose mother took them out of the country with her when she joined the Daesh militant group in the Middle East in 2016 have been repatriated...

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