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March 18, 2021

France’s Macron admonishes Iran amid slow progress on nuclear talks

French President Emmanuel Macron accused Iran on Thursday of continuing to violate a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, and said Tehran should act responsibly, reported Reuters. France, along...

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March 18, 2021

Lebanon’s Hariri says priority to form government, re-engage IMF

Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Al-Hariri said today after meeting with President Michel Aoun that the priority was to form a government to halt the country’s financial collapse and re-start...

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March 18, 2021

Courting Israel with silence and impunity

Last year, the Palestinian Authority attempted, in the wrong way as usual, to get the international community to act upon Israel’s colonial expansion by stating that Israeli Prime Minister...

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March 18, 2021

Jordan: Six sentenced to death for hacking off boy’s hands in ‘revenge’ attack

Jordan’s State Security Court sentenced six men to death yesterday after they were found guilty of hacking off the hands of a 16-year-old boy last year. The horrific attack...

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March 18, 2021

Israel’s siege of Gaza continues to leave Palestinians limbless

When Muhammad Al-Khalidi decided to set up a factory to manufacture prosthetic limbs in the Gaza Strip in 2015 he had no idea that everything he needed to get...

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March 18, 2021

Saudi cabinet approves privatisation plan

The Saudi Arabian cabinet has approved a privatisation plan as part of the Kingdom’s attempt to divide economic sectors between the government and the private sector. The news was...

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March 18, 2021

Kuwait sentences officers to jail over security leaks

Kuwait’s Appeals Court sentenced two officers to seven years in prison with hard labour in the case on leaks from the country’s State Security Agency. The case dates back...

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March 18, 2021

Egypt, Iraq discuss extending Basra-Aqaba oil pipeline to Egypt

Iraq’s Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar and Egyptian Ambassador in Baghdad Ahmed Ismail discussed the possibility of extending the Basra-Aqaba oil pipeline to Egypt. According to an Iraqi Ministry...

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March 18, 2021

The militarisation of Jordan in the face of the coronavirus pandemic

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Jordan has taken a number of security and military steps to manage the situation in the country, most notably the National Defence...

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March 18, 2021

The Wandering Palestinian

“I had a politically active life and enjoyed a large circle of friends who, like me, came from other parts of the Arab world to be in Beirut, the...

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