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January 29, 2021

Human rights organisation urges UN to intervene in Salman Al-Ouda’s release

A Swiss human rights organisation has called on the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to urge Saudi Arabia to release detained preacher...

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January 29, 2021

Algeria: Sentences pronounced in Bouteflika campaign’s ‘hidden financing’ case

The Judicial Council of Algiers on Thursday pronounced the sentences in the case of “hidden financing” of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s election campaign. Two former prime ministers, Ahmed Ouyahia...

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January 28, 2021

Tunisia’s PM: ‘Attempt to harm president means targeting Tunisia’

Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has declared that any attempt to harm President Kais Saied means targeting Tunisia and its people. The official news agency confirmed that Mechichi called...

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January 28, 2021

Iran says US, not Tehran, should act first to resolve nuclear deal row

The United States should act first by returning to world powers’ 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that it ditched in 2018, the Iranian foreign minister tweeted on Thursday after...

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January 28, 2021

Amnesty demands France to halt weapons sale to Lebanon

A new investigation by Amnesty has linked law enforcement equipment supplied by France with the excessive use of force deployed by security forces in Lebanon during the anti-government demonstrations, Anadolu...

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January 28, 2021

US top diplomat holds first call with Iraqi counterpart

Secretary of State Antony Blinken held his first telephone call Thursday with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein since the top US diplomat took office earlier this week, Anadolu Agency reports....

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January 28, 2021

Will Palestinian elections be held in East Jerusalem?

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced plans to hold legislative elections on 22 May and presidential polls on 31 July, for the first time in 15 years. Concerns, however,...

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January 28, 2021

Israel destroys nature reserve, uproots 10,000 trees

The Israeli army yesterday destroyed a natural reserve and uprooted at least 10,000 trees in a military campaign in the northern West Bank in a move that Palestinians termed...

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January 28, 2021

US secretly moved Russia air defence system from Libya, report reveals

The United States’ military has been revealed to have transported a captured Russian air defence missile system from Libya to Germany, in covert efforts to gather intelligence from the...

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January 28, 2021

Somalia, Syria, Yemen most corrupt states in the world

The annual Corruption Perceptions Index survey released by Transparency International, which measures perceived public-sector corruption and highlights the impact of corruption on government responses to COVID-19, revealed that the...

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