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April 20, 2021

EU says Iran nuclear talks will reconvene next week

Talks between Iran, the US and four world powers aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear agreement will reconvene next week, senior officials said in Vienna on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. “Progress...

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April 20, 2021

Yemen starts COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Yemen’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign began in government-held areas on Tuesday three weeks after the first shipment from the global COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme arrived in the war-torn country, Reuters reported. Yemen on...

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April 20, 2021

Sudan briefs Security Council on Nile Dam crisis

Sudan’s foreign minister on Tuesday said she briefed the UN Security Council on the failure of the Kinshasa talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, Anadolu Agency reported. In...

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April 20, 2021

The mighty US military has been humbled by the Taliban

The war in Afghanistan has been called the most pointless conflict of all time. It is probably the most disastrous military venture launched by the US, Britain and their...

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April 20, 2021

Israel is undermining efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal

After two weeks of deliberations in Vienna about reactivating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell told reporters...

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April 20, 2021

Egypt buys 20m doses of China covid vaccine

Egypt has agreed to purchase 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China’s Sinopharm and expects to receive a batch of 500,000 shots this month, Reuters reported its Ministry...

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April 20, 2021

Abbas statements are complicit with Israeli settler-colonialism

Known for belatedly spouting known truths, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was true to form in his address to the J Street conference recently, which revealed the extent of...

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April 20, 2021

UN rights experts demand release of Dubai ruler’s daughter

UN experts today demanded the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provide information about a daughter of Dubai’s ruler and release her, two months after the BBC aired a video it said was...

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April 20, 2021

Ramadan helps Egypt female bakers make a living

For 35-year-old Nour Al-Sabah Mohammed and her crew of bakers, business is brisk during the holy month of Ramadan. The women travel by train to Cairo to sell their...

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April 20, 2021

Israel starts military exercises along Jordan border

The Israel Defence Forces started military exercises along the border with Jordan yesterday, the Israeli defence ministry has announced. The ministry’s Crossing Authority said that the training would take...

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