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February 25, 2021

Morocco to legalise cannabis production for medical use

Morocco plans to allow the farming, export, and domestic sale of cannabis for medical and industrial use, the government said today, a move it hopes will help impoverished farmers...

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February 25, 2021

UN to host Cyprus talks with Turkey, UK, Greece

The United Nations will convene a meeting of parties in the Cyprus dispute in Geneva in late April, the first such meeting since 2017 when talks about the divided...

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February 25, 2021

Pregnant Afghan refugee sets herself on fire at Greece camp

An 26-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker who is eight months pregnant set fire to her tent in a bid to burn herself alive at a camp on the Greek island of...

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February 25, 2021

Israel returns Palestine prisoner to jail 1 day after heart operation

The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) sent Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Abu Ali to the Negev jail just one day after he underwent a cardiac catheterisation operation. Asra Media Office said yesterday...

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February 25, 2021

Egypt: Family of detained lawyer Hoda Abdelmonem say they are not permitted to visit

The family of detained lawyer Hoda Abdelmonem has issued a statement to say they have been denied visitation rights. It comes in response to a statement published on the...

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February 25, 2021

Netanyahu urged Biden to retain Trump sanctions on ICC

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged US President Joe Biden to maintain the sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) imposed by former President Donald Trump. Trump escalated...

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February 25, 2021

Syria refugee seeks seat in German parliament

Almost six years ago Tareq Alaows drifted across the Aegean in a rubber boat before walking most of the way from Athens to Vienna. Now the migrant who fled...

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February 25, 2021

British royal plays ‘high-level salesman for British arms exports’

The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, is acting as a “de facto high-level salesman for British arms exports” and is “bolstering autocratic Gulf regimes,” claims a new...

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February 25, 2021

UAE hostage Sheikha Latifa urges UK to reopen case into sister’s kidnapping

Sheikha Latifa, one of the daughters of the ruler of Dubai, has written to British police asking them to reopen their investigation into the kidnap of her older sister...

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February 25, 2021

US urges Turkey to remove Russia missiles from its territory

The United States Department of Defence called on Turkey to take action and remove Russian S-400 missiles from its territory, reiterating the security threat to NATO defence systems in...

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