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August 13, 2020

Algeria: President orders referendum on constitutional amendment

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune called on the relevant state institutions on Wednesday to initiate preparations for the holding of a referendum on a “profound constitutional amendment” that is under...

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August 13, 2020

UN-backed Libya parliament launches initiative to address conflict

Libya’s Tripoli-based parliament yesterday announced a new comprehensive political initiative aimed at “resolving the Libyan crisis, ending the transitional phase, and implementing parliamentary and presidential elections on a constitutional...

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August 13, 2020

Saudi cruise ships to sail from late August

Cruise ships operated by Saudi Arabia are to sail in the Red Sea for the first time as from 27 August, the Saudi Tourism Authority (STA) has announced. The...

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August 13, 2020

Does Egypt have the right to build military bases in Somalia?

In the context of the Renaissance Dam crisis which recently escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia, Somali reservations emerged regarding the fifth clause of the nine-clause resolution submitted by Arab...

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August 13, 2020

Lebanon prosecutor to question ministers over Beirut explosion

Several former and current ministers will be questioned by a Lebanese prosecutor over the explosion in Beirut’s port last week, Agence France Presse reports. Questioning is set to start with the former Minister...

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August 13, 2020

Jailed Iran activist Nasrin Sotoudeh goes on hunger strike

Human rights activist and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has begun a hunger strike to protest “the injustice and illegal conditions that political detainees are subjected to in Iranian prisons”. “My...

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August 13, 2020

PA might get Covid-19 vaccine from Russia

Palestine expects to become one of the first places to receive Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, Wafa news agency reported on Tuesday. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas thanked his Russian counterpart...

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August 13, 2020

Knesset rejects bill barring Netanyahu from heading government

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, rejected a bill on Wednesday which would prevent its members indicted on criminal charges from forming a government, the Times of Israel has reported. Prime...

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August 13, 2020

Turkey accuses Greece of ‘oppressing Muslim minority’

Turkey yesterday accused Greece of “systematically closing Turkish minority schools” in the country’s Western Thrace region. “Athens’ practice of temporary suspending minority schools in Western Thrace – a region...

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August 13, 2020

Report: Israel tried to expel 60,000 Palestinians to Paraguay

Israel tried to expel 60,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Paraguay after reaching understandings with the government of the South American state in 1969, Israeli Public Broadcaster (Kan)...

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