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January 25, 2021

US oil firm operating in ‘murky’ Syria oil business

“Pioneering” American entrepreneurs have waded into the “murky” oil business in Syria, according to a report by the Financial Times which investigated the US oil firm Delta Crescent Energy (DCE). The...

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January 25, 2021

Is the pandemic an opportunity to shift from oil to greener energy?

It is crucial to an understanding of the global consequences of the coronavirus pandemic to consider the transition to alternative energy sources for the benefit of future generations. Covid-19...

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January 25, 2021

Egypt sentences 23 Muslim Brotherhood members to 5 years in prison

Egypt’s court of cassation yesterday sentenced 23 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to five years in prison and acquitted five others. According to Youm7, the Egyptian public prosecutor convicted...

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January 25, 2021

Egypt imposes curfew ahead of revolution anniversary

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Saturday issued a ministerial order imposing a partial curfew in some areas in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. “A curfew will be...

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January 25, 2021

Iraq: 11 PMF militants killed in Daesh clashes

Eleven members of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have been killed during violent clashes with Daesh, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported yesterday. Violent confrontations broke out on Saturday between the PMF...

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January 25, 2021

Filipina workers ‘trafficked from UAE to Syria, abused and assaulted’

Filipina workers and maids have been trafficked from the United Arab Emirates to Syria where they have been subjected to assault, rape, abuse and the withholding of their wages,...

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January 25, 2021

Israel officially opens embassy in the UAE

Israel yesterday officially opened its embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), its Foreign Ministry announced. The controversial move comes after the UAE and Israel agreed to establish full diplomatic, cultural...

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January 25, 2021

Tawakkol Karman calls on Biden to apply ‘maximum pressure’ to Yemen’s Houthis

Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman has urged US President Joe Biden to exert “maximum pressure” on Yemen’s Houthi-led government “to retreat from their coup” and to return to what...

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January 25, 2021

Report: Full moon to align above the Kaaba on 28 January

The full moon will align with the Kaaba in Makkah at 12:43am local time on Thursday, Al Arabiya reports. The moon will appear directly above the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site,...

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January 25, 2021

We ‘seek to protect Jewish students and not the government of the State of Israel’, insist IHRA supporters

A group of Jewish student leaders have dismissed mounting concerns over the adoption by British universities of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism in the Guardian letters page...

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