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April 3, 2020

UN: Armed groups not honouring COVID-19 truce

Armed groups in Yemen, Syria, and Libya have not fully adhered to a United Nations call to lay down their guns during the novel coronavirus pandemic, the world body’s...

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April 3, 2020

EU: calls for improving EU-Turkey ties, not just migration

The EU’s relationship with Turkey cannot be limited to just migration, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Friday. The questions of migration and financial aid are an important...

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April 3, 2020

Putin says Russia agrees on oil output cuts, blames Saudis for low prices

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia was ready for deep oil production cuts with the United States and OPEC, but firmly put the blame for the collapse in...

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April 3, 2020

UN worried about Iran prisoners amid coronavirus outbreak

A United Nations rights official on Friday voiced concern over prisoners after reports of unrest in facilities prompted by worries over a coronavirus outbreak in countries including Iran, one...

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April 3, 2020

Israel seals off ultra-Orthodox town hit hard by coronavirus

Israel put up roadblocks on Friday to seal off an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town badly affected by the coronavirus, but ordered in soldiers to support the residents. Emergency regulations approved...

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April 3, 2020

Hezbollah’s coronavirus response plan is a political tool, not a cover-up

In recent weeks, accusations have circulated that Hezbollah’s coronavirus response plan is a cover-up for a huge number of unreported COVID-19 cases in Lebanon. Indeed, the Lebanese government, at...

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April 3, 2020

Middle East missing ‘window of opportunity’ to contain coronavirus, warns the WHO

Governments in the Middle East need to act fast to limit the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned in a stark message to the...

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April 3, 2020

Israel arrests Palestine's Jerusalem affairs minister for the 4th time

Israeli forces arrested Palestine’s Jerusalem Affairs Minister Fadi Al-Hadami earlier today for allegedly violating an Israeli ban on Palestinian political activities in occupied East Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Affairs Ministry...

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April 3, 2020

US Patriot deployment breaches Iraq’s sovereignty, says lawmaker

A member of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defence committee has condemned the deployment of Patriot missile defence systems at bases hosting US forces in the country, saying they are a...

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April 3, 2020

Plague and Empire… is a timely look at the Ottoman experience of epidemics

Academic Nukhet Varlık has written a timely book on the experience of the Ottoman Empire in coping with plague. The Professor of History at Rutgers University is the author...

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