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November 4, 2021

Somalia asks envoy of African Union Commission to leave country

Somalia, on Thursday, asked the African Union Commission (AUC) representative in the country to leave within a week, after declaring him persona non grata. Simon Mulongo, the AUC’s deputy...

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November 4, 2021

No misconduct in mistaken Afghan airstrike, Pentagon review says

The US drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and it does...

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November 4, 2021

Syria to lift subsidy system from richest citizens

Syria will cease government subsidies on basic goods for its richest citizens by the end of this year, according to regime officials. In a press conference yesterday, Syria’s Internal...

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November 4, 2021

Being designated as ‘terrorists’ by Israel reflects the good work that NGOs do in Palestine

I am following with interest the reaction to Israel’s designation of six Palestinian human rights organisations as “terrorist” groups. The small British charity of which I was chair for...

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November 4, 2021

Climate change threatens jobs of Tunisia’s wetland farmers

Dotted among wetlands on Tunisia’s coast, a patchwork of tiny man-made islands stretches out towards the Mediterranean. Ploughed in neat furrows and shored up by sandbanks inside a lagoon,...

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November 4, 2021

Iran marks 42 years since US embassy siege

READ: Iran’s Raisi vows no retreat in nuclear talks with major powers...

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November 4, 2021

As fighting increases, Yemen’s internally displaced remain on the move

In his eighties, Mohammed Hadi Al-Harmali has been uprooted four times by shifting frontlines during the seven years of Yemen’s brutal civil war. Out of money and bedridden with...

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November 4, 2021

Turkey denies moving Russian S-400 missiles to NATO base

Turkish military officials have denied, late Wednesday, a Sky News Arabia report that the S-400 missile defence system was moved to Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, Daily Sabah...

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November 4, 2021

‘Crazy love’: Lebanon slogan promotes tourism on back of crisis

Lebanon’s tourism minister unveiled a new slogan for the crisis-swept country on Thursday, that aimed to portray the precarity of life there as a point of pride, roughly translating...

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November 4, 2021

Harassing Palestinians, Jerusalem councillor says they are acting against the Bible

READ: Israeli police storm the Dome of the Rock at Al-Aqsa Mosque...

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