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September 16, 2021

US: Turkey, Qatar working to resume flights to Afghanistan

Turkey and Qatar are working to resume normal flights to Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, the United States State Department spokesperson said yesterday. Ned Price said that the Taliban...

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September 16, 2021

Bahrain places political prisoners under house arrest

Bahrain has released 30 prisoners conditionally, including 27 political prisoners, under legislation allowing electronic monitoring and house arrest instead. Under the 2017 “alternative sentence” law, prisoners who have served...

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September 16, 2021

Morocco backs de Mistura as UN envoy for Western Sahara

Morocco’s ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, announced on Wednesday that the Kingdom has agreed to the appointment of Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura as the Secretary-General’s envoy...

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September 16, 2021

Ex-Lebanon FM says relation with Syria will resume

Lebanon’s former Foreign Minister and head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, said by virtue of nature and geography, the relationship between his country and Syria will resume....

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September 16, 2021

UAE, Israel normalisation saved two-state solution, Emirati envoy says

The UAE Ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al-Otaiba, said the normalisation agreement signed between his country and Israel has saved the two-state solution. Speaking at an event organised by the...

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September 16, 2021

Algeria official: Saudi FM did not discuss rift with Morocco

Algeria’s special envoy to the countries of the Maghreb and Western Sahara, Ammar Belani, yesterday denied reports claiming the Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan had discussed the dispute...

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September 16, 2021

How two leaders, decades apart, envisioned the African Union

Last week marked 22 years since the African Union (AU) replaced the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) which was created in 1963 with only 32 members. The other 22...

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September 16, 2021

Time magazine names Muna, Mohammed El-Kurd as among 100 most influential

Time magazine has named Palestinian twins and activists, Muna and Mohammed El-Kurd of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem in its annual list of the 100 most influential...

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September 16, 2021

Recaptured Palestinian escapee: ‘I will seek freedom again’

Palestinian prisoner Yaqoub Qadri, who was among the four Gilboa Prison escapees to be recaptured, pledged to seek freedom again, Safa news agency reported on Tuesday. According to lawyer Hanan Al Khatib, Qadri...

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September 16, 2021

Israel army chief: Raiding Jenin could become inevitable choice

Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Aviv Kochavi, yesterday warned that raiding the West Bank city of Jenin could become an inevitable choice, Israeli TV Channel 12 reported. Al Maydan...

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