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March 16, 2021

Hezbollah MP heads delegation to Russia

Head of Hezbollah’s Parliamentary Bloc, Mohammad Raad, headed to Russia and met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday, Anadolu reported. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that both...

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March 16, 2021

PM: Foreign troops reduced by 60% in Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said yesterday that his government has succeeded in reducing foreign forces in the country by 60 per cent, Anadolu news agency reported. “We have succeeded in...

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March 16, 2021

Saudi arrests hundreds of employees on corruption charges

Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested at least 241 employees of several ministries as part of an anti-corruption campaign, Anadolu reported. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority...

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March 16, 2021

Prominent Dahlan aide returns to Gaza

Rashid Abu-Shbak, one of the most prominent aides of dismissed Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan, returned to the Gaza Strip after 14 years in exile, Palestinian media reported. In a...

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March 16, 2021

Has Morocco’s Justice and Development Party sold Palestine for Western Sahara?

Morocco’s Abdelilah Benkirane has recently announced that he is freezing his membership of the Justice and Development Party in protest against the government’s adoption of a bill to legalise...

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March 16, 2021

PA will never backtrack from general elections

The Palestinian Authority (PA) will never backtrack from heading to general elections because they are democratic and popular rights, PA spokesperson Nabil Abu-Rudieneh said yesterday. Speaking to Voice of Palestine radio,...

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March 16, 2021

Jordan condemns Kosovo for opening embassy in Jerusalem

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry yesterday condemned the inauguration of Kosovo’s embassy to Israel in the occupied city of Jerusalem, Anadolu news agency reported. Foreign Ministry spokesman, Dhaifallah Al-Fayez, described the inauguration...

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March 16, 2021

Report: Remittances from Egypt expats rose 10.5% in 2020

Remittances from Egyptians working abroad increased by 10.5 per cent in 2020, despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said yesterday. Transfers...

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March 16, 2021

Russia mercenaries hit by lawsuit for ‘murdering Syrian’

Three non-governmental organisations (NGOs) yesterday filed a landmark case in Moscow against Russia’s Wagner mercenary group over the torture and murder of a detainee in Syria in 2017. “This...

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March 16, 2021

75,000 Ethiopians fled to Sudan in 5 months

Ethiopian refugees continue to flee to Sudan as the conflict in the northernmost region of Tigray continues to escalate. Sudan’s official SUNA news agency reported that the influx had continued “despite...

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