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November 17, 2020

Iraq PM facing off attempts to obstruct early elections

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said yesterday that his government is facing “attempts” to obstruct the holding of early parliamentary elections in June, Anadolu reported. The prime minister’s media office said...

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November 17, 2020

Peace deals between Gulf, Tel Aviv benefit Israel’s army, report says

Israel’s normalisation of ties with Arab states stimulated American arms sales and supported the Israeli army, Israeli journalist and writer Hagai Amit has written in TheMarker, the economic attachment of Haaretz....

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November 17, 2020

UK’s Labour Party puts critic of Israel ‘under investigation’

A left-wing member of the governing body of Britain’s Labour Party is under investigation for saying that Israel is an apartheid state. Newly-elected National Executive Committee member Gemma Bolton,...

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November 17, 2020

The defence of Taiz is the defence of unified Yemen

When Yemen’s Houthis and their then ally former President Ali Abdullah Saleh decided to attack the southern governorates in February 2015, the move came just a month after President...

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November 17, 2020

Libya: UN studies unifying guards of petroleum facilities

The UN envoy to Libya, Stephanie Williams, yesterday discussed restructuring and unifying the Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) in northern Libya, according to a security source. In a statement to Anadolu Agency, a...

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November 17, 2020

Lebanon president stresses importance of preserving Christian presence in Middle East

Lebanese President Michel Aoun yesterday stressed on the importance of preserving the Christian presence in the Arab region to ensure “diversity, openness and tolerance”. Aoun made the remarks during...

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November 17, 2020

Iran bans domestic travel over coronavirus

Iran will impose a ban of domestic travel across the country starting Saturday, government spokesperson, Ali Rabiei, announced yesterday. “Iranian National Committee of Combating Coronavirus has decided to impose...

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November 17, 2020

Journalist looks to judges to ‘champion American ideals’ in historic US court case

American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem yesterday challenged his inclusion on a US government “kill list” even though he is thousands of miles away in a rebel-held prison in Syria....

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November 17, 2020

Settlers return to settlement in northern West Bank evacuated in 2005

More than 20 Israeli Jewish families today returned to Sa-Nur settlement in the northern occupied West Bank, which was evacuated in 2005, local media reported. The settlers who lived...

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November 17, 2020

Venezuela backs Palestinians’ right to establish independent state, insists president

Venezuela will continue to support the Palestinian people and their right to “self-determination and the establishment of their independent Palestinian state,” President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday. Maduro’s remarks came...

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