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January 12, 2022

Iran complicit in killing 500,000 Syrians, says ex-lawmaker

Iran is complicit in the killing of some 500,000 Syrians, former Iranian lawmaker Faezeh Hashemi said yesterday. Hashemi, the daughter of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, told Iran...

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January 12, 2022

Basketball player moves from Israeli to Moroccan team

Basketball player Mahmoud Abu Arisha has moved for one year from an Israeli to a Moroccan team, Anadolu news agency reported yesterday. Speaking to the news wire, member of the executive bureau of Morocco’s Association Michlifen Ifrane Basketball said 24-year-old...

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January 12, 2022

Sisi: Claims of rights violations in Egypt are ‘lies’

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday claimed that all human rights violations in the country highlighted by national and international rights groups are “lies”, Anadolu reported. Al-Sisi’s remarks came during a...

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January 12, 2022

Where are the Maghreb countries headed?

The current picture in the Maghreb is grey, turbulent and open to all sorts of readings and expectations. Matters fluctuate between an insistence on maintaining the status quo and...

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January 12, 2022

UN rights body concerned about human rights in Tunisia

Developments in Tunisia over the past month have deepened our already serious concerns about the deteriorating human rights situation there, the spokesperson for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Liz Throssell,...

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January 12, 2022

Lebanese protest over currency collapse

Lebanese people yesterday took to the streets to denounce the collapse of the value of the lira against the US dollar. On Monday, the US dollar amounted to almost...

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January 12, 2022

Report: 31 Israel soldiers killed in 2021

Thirty-one Israeli soldiers were killed during 2021, local media reported yesterday. Kikar HaShabbat said that the 11 soldiers had committed suicide, adding that the rest were killed “in accidents...

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January 11, 2022

Abbas discusses Palestinian developments with Egyptian President

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday, discussed with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the Palestinian political developments as well as bilateral relations, Anadolu News Agency reports. Hussein Al-Sheikh,...

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January 11, 2022

US preparing to transfer first high-value Guantanamo detainee

The first high-level detainee at the controversial US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been cleared for transfer with security guarantees, according to a recently published report and...

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January 11, 2022

Will a million signatures stop the honouring of a war criminal?

Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, says Mr Blair deserves knighthood, the title of “Sir” bestowed on him by the Queen, the UK’s highest honour, for “making Britain a better...

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