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January 19, 2021

Turkey may ease Covid-19 restrictions in March

Turkey may start to ease some Covid-19 related restrictions in the second half of March, Hurriyet has reported. A vaccination programme was started in the country last week after...

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January 19, 2021

Trump awards Bahrain’s King Hamad the Legion of Merit

Outgoing US President Donald Trump awarded the King of Bahrain the Legion of Merit with the Degree of Chief Commander yesterday. King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa was given the...

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January 19, 2021

Tunisia: Don’t trade freedom for security, warns former assembly president

A former president of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) in Tunisia has warned fellow citizens not to trade freedom for security in the belief that things were “better in...

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January 19, 2021

Turkey and the UAE move to improve relations

Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are making efforts to improve their relations following the signing of the “solidarity and stability” agreement between Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and...

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January 19, 2021

Will the Palestinian elections end the division?

President Mahmoud Abbas’s decree setting the dates for Palestinian elections, which haven’t taken place for years, is without doubt an important step towards ending the political division. Nevertheless, proposing...

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January 19, 2021

Kurdish MPs urge KRG to deliver oil to Baghdad

The parliamentary bloc of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan on Monday demanded the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq to start delivering oil to the federal government in...

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January 19, 2021

Israel tourist behaviour in UAE ‘shameful’

Israeli visitors to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been behaving in a “shameful” manner, Ynet News reported yesterday. “More than 66,000 Israeli tourists have visited UAE’s Dubai and...

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January 19, 2021

US withdraws last troops from Somalia

The US has completely withdrawn its troops from Somalia, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced yesterday. “The repositioning of the troops was completed ahead of the deadline in a presidential...

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January 19, 2021

Global civil society groups push back against Macron’s crackdown on Muslims

In the first coordinated global civil society pushback against France’s increasingly hostile policies towards its Muslim citizens, over 36 civil society organisations from 13 countries have submitted today formal...

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January 19, 2021

Why has Israel banned Jenin, Jenin? It fears the Palestinian narrative

On 11 January, Israel’s Lod District Court ruled against Palestinian film-maker Mahmoud Bakri, and ordered him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who was accused, along with...

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