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September 28, 2021

Ex-PM says Israel does not have capacity to strike Iran nuclear sites

Israel does not have conventional military capabilities that enable it to strike and permanently eliminate the Iranian nuclear project, as it did in Iraq in 1981 and Syria in...

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September 28, 2021

Who’s running in Iraq’s elections?

Iraq holds a general election on 10 October, its fifth parliamentary vote since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 and ushered in a complex multi-party system contested by groups...

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September 28, 2021

Israel ‘worried’ about Vienna talks on Iran nuclear programme

The head of Israel’s National Security Council, Eyal Holata, is scheduled to meet US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Washington next week to discuss Israel’s worries about the...

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September 28, 2021

PA welcomes UK Labour Party’s motion on Israeli ‘apartheid’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the passing of a motion at the UK Labour Party conference on Monday that recognised Israel as an “apartheid” state and called for...

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September 28, 2021

Barghouti: PA has no authority

Imprisoned member of Fatah Central Committee, Marwan Barghouti, has said: “the Palestinian Authority (PA) has no authority” adding that the Battle for Jerusalem “revealed the inability and fragility” of...

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September 28, 2021

PA arrests key witness in Nizar Banat murder case

The Palestinian Authority security services arrested on Monday the key witness in the Nizar Banat murder case, local sources have revealed. Banat, a harsh critic of PA President Mahmoud...

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September 28, 2021

Egypt opens largest sewage treatment plant in the world

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday inaugurated the world’s largest wastewater treatment plant. The Egyptian presidency said in a statement that 20 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.14 billion) were spent...

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September 28, 2021

Gaza demolishing high rise building bombed by Israel

In cooperation with the UNDP, the Palestinian Ministry of Works has started work to demolish Al-Jawhara Tower which was repeatedly bombed by Israeli occupation forces during the latest offensive...

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September 28, 2021

Airstrikes hit Iran-backed militias in Syria

Unidentified aircraft hit a base run by Iranian-backed militias in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ez-Zor near the Iraqi border where Tehran has in the last year expanded its...

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September 28, 2021

By ignoring Lebanon’s fuel crisis, the Gulf States let Hezbollah lead the way

Lebanon has had a rough ride over the past year: the failure to secure a viable government; the catastrophic Beirut blast; then the economic crash which caused its currency...

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