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July 1, 2021

Tunisian beats Venus Williams to progress at Wimbledon

Tunisian 21st seed Ons Jabeur yesterday beat American Venus Williams in Wimbledon yesterday. A day after sister Serena endured a heart-breaking Wimbledon exit after suffering an injury in the...

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July 1, 2021

Libya: Haftar’s election candidacy sparks dispute at LPDF meeting in Geneva

Differences have arisen between delegates at the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) meeting in Geneva over the possibility of Khalifa Haftar standing as a candidate in December’s presidential election...

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July 1, 2021

Foreign troops are not leaving Libya despite Berlin II pledges

The International Berlin Conference on Libya — Berlin II — concluded last week with a rather short communiqué. It predecessor, the January 2020 Berlin I conference, ended with 66...

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July 1, 2021

Egypt assigns military officer to every village as ‘revenge’ for 2020 galabiya uprising

Egypt’s president has asked his defence minister to assign a military officer to “each and every village” in Egypt. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi announced the news in a tweet as...

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July 1, 2021

Yale students approve statement denouncing Israeli ‘apartheid’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’

The student council in one of America’s most prestigious universities has approved a statement denouncing Israel for “genocide”, “ethnic cleansing” and “apartheid” in occupied Palestine. The Yale College Council,...

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July 1, 2021

Israel PM Naftali Bennett to visit UAE in October, media reports

Newly-appointed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett plans to visit the United Arab Emirates in October to strengthen bilateral relations between the occupation state and the Arab country, local media...

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July 1, 2021

Egypt produces first batch of covid vaccine domestically

Egypt has domestically produced its first 300,000-dose batch of China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday. Health Minister Hala Zayed told reporters that the doses were...

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July 1, 2021

Hamas official says relations with Hezbollah ‘never cut’

A senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip has said that the movement’s relations with Hezbollah in Lebanon are “good” and “have never been severed”, Arabi21 has reported. Khalil...

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July 1, 2021

Morocco recognises third gender, approves use of Amazigh language on birth records

A new civil status law approved by the Moroccan Parliament on Tuesday recognises the terms androgynous and hermaphrodite on birth certificates as a third gender, while allowing the possibility...

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July 1, 2021

Egypt: hundreds of policemen face trial for corruption

As many as 600 Egyptian policemen, including senior officers, have been determined to have been involved in bribery and corruption, as well as abuse of power during the past...

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