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August 6, 2021

Israel president’s brother top pick for next envoy to the US

Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s brother, retired General Michael Herzog, is the country’s top candidate for the position of ambassador to the United States (US), reported the Times of Israel. The...

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August 6, 2021

Syria refugees helped clean flooded German towns

Syrian volunteers helped clean up the towns hit by Germany’s most devastating floods in 60 years, Reuters reports. Some 187 people lost their lives in the devastating floods that hit earlier...

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August 6, 2021

Tunisia activists say they will keep up pressure on president

Sitting on her rooftop in Tunis, political activist Fatma Jgham said she and her comrades backed the Tunisian president’s seizure of governing powers but would maintain pressure on him...

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August 6, 2021

Jordan seizes 0.5m narcotic pills from Syria, hours after opening border

Jordanian authorities announced the seizure of a huge haul of narcotic pills in an attempted smuggling operation through its Jaber crossing at the Syrian border, just hours after the...

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August 6, 2021

Mysterious tanker incidents reinforce Iran’s deterrent power

A mysterious attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman has significantly raised tensions in the region, not only between Iran and Israel, but also involving...

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August 6, 2021

Israel increasing abuse of detained Palestinians, rights group says

Israel has escalated its abusive practices against Palestinian prisoners, including the use of medical negligence, amid fears of the spread of coronavirus, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club warned yesterday. “A...

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August 6, 2021

Sudan urges UN replace Ethiopia soldiers with multinational forces

Sudan yesterday renewed its demand to replace the Ethiopian forces in the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in the disputed Abyei region on the South Sudan border with...

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August 6, 2021

Hezbollah fires back as Israel shells south Lebanon

Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said it had fired rockets at open ground near Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms area today in response to Israeli airstrikes which struck sites...

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August 6, 2021

Sudan hands police officers death sentences for killing protesters

A Sudanese court yesterday sentenced six members of the country’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to death for “killing protesters, including schoolchildren, in 2019.” Local media reported that the trial...

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August 6, 2021

Amnesty calls on Egypt to probe ‘extrajudicial executions’ seen in army video

Amnesty International yesterday called on Egypt to investigate a propaganda video released by the Egyptian army showing people being shot dead during a security operation in North Sinai. “The...

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