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August 12, 2020

The MENA region records highest youth unemployment rate in the world

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region had the highest youth unemployment rate in the world in 2019, according to data published by the World Bank. While Qatar...

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August 11, 2020

Greece opens fire at civilian boat in Aegean Sea

Greece opened fire at a boat carrying civilians off the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea, said the Turkish Coast Guard Command on Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. In...

News
August 11, 2020

British-born aid worker rearrested in Syria

The ordeal of a British-born aid worker in Syria who was taken by members of a Sunni Islamist militant group in rebel-held Idlib took another twist on Tuesday when...

Article
August 11, 2020

US couple, stranded by coronavirus in Gaza, returning to ‘scary’ Florida

Adria and Ayman Arafat are finally heading home to Florida after being stranded for months in the Gaza Strip by coronavirus-related restrictions but fear they will now face a...

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August 11, 2020

Israel pushes to remove ‘occupation’ from the discourse, and Biden duly obliges

In perfect synchronisation with Israeli lobbying at an international level, pro-Israel organisations in the US have influenced Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden to remove references to the “occupation”...

Blog
August 11, 2020

Lebanese call for downfall of president, other officials over Beirut blast

Angry and grieving demonstrators on Tuesday read aloud the names of at least 171 people killed in last week’s explosion at Beirut port and called for the removal of...

News
August 11, 2020

US did not fully assess civilian risks when pushing Saudi arms sales-report

The US Department of State did not fully evaluate the risk of civilian casualties when it pushed through a massive sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia last year,...

News
August 11, 2020

Iran arrests five Iranians for spying for foreign states

Iranian authorities have arrested five Iranians on charges of spying for Israel, Britain and Germany, convicting and handing down prison sentences on at least two of them, the judiciary...

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August 11, 2020

Co-option of religion by Saudi’s MBS spells disaster

The misuse of religion has become something of an art form in the Middle East. On the one hand many of the region’s autocrats and dictators, calling for greater...

Article
August 11, 2020

‘Guns and oil do not mix in Libya’

Oil as a commodity is intertwined intimately with national strategies, power and global politics. This was a central theme in Daniel Yergin’s The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil,...

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