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January 5, 2022

UAE joins four others to take seat at UN Security Council

The UAE along with four other countries – Albania, Brazil, Gabon and Ghana – have assumed responsibilities as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. Although the two-year term...

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January 5, 2022

Lebanon: minister orders removal of posters ‘offensive’ to Saudi Arabia

Lebanon’s Minister of Interior and Municipalities has ordered all posters deemed to be offensive to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to be removed from streets in the southern suburbs...

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January 5, 2022

Syria: Russian jets bomb Idlib for 7th day in a row

Russian jets bombed areas near Idlib in the north-west of Syria on Tuesday. According to Syrian Civil Defence officials this was the seventh consecutive day that the opposition held...

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January 5, 2022

Egypt: 2 men arrested after teen commits suicide over doctored images shared online

Two men have been arrested in Egypt after a 17-year-old woman committed suicide after doctored images which made her look like she was naked, were shared online. Basant Khaled’s...

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January 5, 2022

700,000 people sign petition calling for Blair to be stripped of his knighthood

A petition calling for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to be stripped of his knighthood has been signed by almost 700,000 people. If the goal of one million signatures is...

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January 5, 2022

Egypt health minister’s ex-husband on trial in bribery case

Egyptian judicial sources yesterday revealed the names of the four defendants referred last week for a criminal trial in the case known in the media as “the health ministry...

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January 5, 2022

Huge debt and a shrinking private sector marked Egypt’s economy in 2021

The Egyptian economy slid into a foreign debt trap in 2021, and the country ended up borrowing in order to make repayments and cover the interest on existing loans....

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January 5, 2022

Over 100 groups sign open letter objecting to ‘two tier’ UK nationality bill

Over 100 organisations from across the UK have expressed their opposition to the Nationality and Borders Bill that is to be debated in the House of Lords today. Trade...

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January 5, 2022

Return to Iran nuclear deal better than no deal, Israel military official says

A return to the Iran nuclear deal is better than not having a deal, the Jerusalem Post reported Chief of Israeli Military Intelligence, Aharon Haliva, saying. The paper quoted Israeli news...

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January 5, 2022

Despite his gratitude to Soleimani, Assad is clamping down on Iran’s presence in Syria

Two years after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in a US missile attack at Baghdad Airport, the legacy of the late commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

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