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March 24, 2021

UAE invests $150m in Telegram messaging app

Mubadala Investment Company and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners yesterday announced that they had invested $150 million in the mobile messaging application Telegram. Reuters reported that the investment would be...

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March 24, 2021

Hajj firm warns about booking without up-to-date requirements

One of the leading travel companies in north-west England used by Muslims going to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrimage has warned that it is not taking bookings until...

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March 24, 2021

Study: Minors make up 25% of Yemen’s civilian casualties

Over the past three years, children have made up a quarter of civilian casualties in Yemen’s war, Save the Children announced yesterday. The organisation said that there were 2,341...

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March 24, 2021

Post-Brexit Britain relies increasingly on Moroccan fruit and vegetables

Britain’s reliance on Moroccan fruit and vegetable has grown rapidly following its withdrawal from the EU at the end of last year, prompting it to establish alternative trading partners....

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March 24, 2021

Oman: 46,000 expats left in six months

The Omani Ministry of Labour yesterday revealed that more than 46,000 expatriate workers permanently left the Sultanate over the last six months, local media reported. “The total number of...

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March 24, 2021

Turkey: currency crisis after bank governor sacked

The value of the Turkish lira has fallen by 15 per cent after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sacked the governor of the country’s central bank over the weekend. Naci...

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March 24, 2021

Tunisia: freeze on funds linked to ex-president extended by Canada

Tunisia’s Acting Justice Minister, Hasna Ben Slimane, announced on Monday that Canada has extended the freeze on funds linked to former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The decision...

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March 24, 2021

Middle East Quartet discusses return to ‘meaningful negotiations’

The international Middle East Quartet made up of the European Union, the Russian Federation, the United States, and the United Nations discussed on Tuesday a “return to meaningful negotiations”...

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March 24, 2021

Yemen declares state of emergency over sharp spike in covid cases

Yemen’s internationally recognised government declared a health emergency in areas under its control, as infections in a second wave of a coronavirus epidemic surge, Reuters reported. Yemen’s six-year war has...

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March 24, 2021

IAEA chief calls for new nuclear deal with Iran

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said that reviving the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers is “impossible” and called for striking a new...

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