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March 2, 2021

Turkey’s reopening relieves restaurants but worries doctors

Turkish restaurants reopened and many children returned to school on Tuesday after the government announced steps to ease COVID-19 restrictions even as cases edged higher, raising concerns among the...

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March 2, 2021

US blacklists two leaders of Yemen’s Houthi movement

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two military leaders of the Houthi movement in Yemen, accusing them of procuring weapons from Iran and organising attacks, in the...

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March 2, 2021

Iraq receives 50,000 doses of Chinese covid vaccine

READ: Egypt approves Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine...

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March 2, 2021

Sunni militants attack Iran Revolutionary Guards vehicle

Sunni Baluchi militants attacked a vehicle belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday in the southeast of the country, which has been hit by unrest in the past week,...

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March 2, 2021

Hamas under the hold of the PA, Israel in the occupied West Bank

Security services of the Palestinian Authority (PA) have arrested several Hamas members and activists in the occupied West Bank and put them in Al-Junaid Prison in the city of...

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March 2, 2021

11m full-time jobs lost in MENA due to covid, UNICEF says

The coronavirus pandemic has led to the loss of 11 million full-time jobs in the MENA region, a new publication released by UNICEF says. According to UNICEF’s Middle East and...

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March 2, 2021

The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Political Factions and the Ruling Elite

Zana Gulmohamad‘s new book, The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq: Political Factions and the Ruling Elite, takes on the mammoth task of exploring and explaining how Iraq has...

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March 2, 2021

NGOs urge France to investigate chemical weapons use in Syria

Human rights organisations have filed a complaint in a court in Paris today against the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad. They accuse him of being responsible for war...

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March 2, 2021

Censored: You have the right to free speech, unless you’re a minority

So there are limits to freedom of expression after all! Professor Memdani of Makarere University says it brilliantly: Power can instrumentalise free speech to frame a minority and present...

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March 2, 2021

The EU seeks collaboration with Biden, without political space for the Palestinians

European politicians are finally waking up to the issue of Israeli annexation of Palestinian land, acknowledging that the suspension brought about by the US-brokered Abraham Accords are not an...

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