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June 16, 2021

Head of rights group called for interrogation by Egypt prosecutors

Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Hossam Bahgat, has been called in for interrogation before Egypt’s public prosecution today over charges related to free expression. Prosecutors opened...

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June 16, 2021

Saudi Arabia under pressure to stop helping its citizens abscond US justice

Saudi Arabia has been sharply criticised for undermining the American judicial process by helping its citizens residing in the US to flee the country in order to avoid facing...

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June 16, 2021

Nuclear deal must wait for new Iran gov’t, IAEA says

Reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear accord will have to await the formation of a new Iranian government, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog said in remarks published today and...

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June 16, 2021

New ICC prosecutor vows to build stronger cases that will go to court

British barrister Karim Khan took over as the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor today with a pledge to improve its track record by taking only its strongest cases to...

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June 16, 2021

Tunisia’s Ennahda says president ready to supervise national dialogue

Tunisia’s Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi announced yesterday that President Kais Saied has agreed to supervise a national dialogue with the aim of resolving the political crisis that has ravaged...

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June 16, 2021

Egypt continues execution spree, with impunity

On 15 July 2013 four men left the Rabaa sit-in, got into a car and drove away from the protests. On their way out of the square they saw...

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June 16, 2021

Israel shoots, kills Palestine woman in Jerusalem

Israeli occupation forces shot dead a Palestinian woman today alleging she had tried to carry out a car-ramming attack northeast of Jerusalem. A military statement said the woman attempted...

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June 16, 2021

Ethiopia to build new dam on Nile tributary

Ethiopia has begun constructing a new dam on the Didessa River, a tributary of the Blue Nile, reported the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) yesterday. ENA indicated that the construction of the dam, launched on...

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June 16, 2021

Spain considers including enclaves in Schengen Area

Spain’s Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that the government is considering including the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla fully in Europe’s visa-free Schengen Area. Arancha Gonzalez Laya did not...

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June 16, 2021

Egypt medical aid truck delivers 1% of expected medicine to Gaza

A video is circulating online of an Egyptian truck carrying medical aid to Gaza with just 50 boxes inside, just one per cent of the number of boxes that...

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