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May 4, 2021

Saudi non-oil business hits three-month high in April

Business activity in Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector hit a three-month high in April and employment grew for the first time in five months, Reuters has reported. The figures...

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May 4, 2021

Dubai tourism falls by 67% in first quarter compared with same period last year

Official statistics showed on Monday that the number of tourists visiting Dubai fell by 67.2 per cent during the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last...

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May 4, 2021

Morocco: Unemployment reaches 12.5% in first quarter of 2021

The unemployment rate in Morocco rose to 12.5 per cent during the first quarter of 2021, compared to 10.5 per cent during the same period in 2020. In a...

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May 4, 2021

US and Israeli NGOs fund far-right Jewish extremists

Non-governmental organisations and tax-exempt foundations in the US and Israel are funding far-right Jewish extremist groups which rampaged through occupied East Jerusalem over a week ago while chanting “death...

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May 4, 2021

Syria: pre-election amnesty for crimes committed before May

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has signed a decree granting a general amnesty for certain crimes committed prior to 2 May, his office announced on Sunday. The amnesty covers those...

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May 4, 2021

Saudi Arabia: Ramadan will be 30 days

Sheikh Abdullah Bin Suleiman Al Manea, member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars and adviser at the Royal Court, has said that this year Ramadan will be 30 days, Al Shorouq Online reported yesterday. It means that Eid Al-Fitr will be...

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May 4, 2021

Netanyahu accepts Bennett as PM in coalition rotation deal

Head of Israel’s Likud Party, Benjamin Netanyahu, said yesterday that he was ready to accept Yamina Party head, Naftali Bennett, as prime minister during the first year of a...

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May 4, 2021

Abbas has climbed down on holding the Palestinian elections, as usual

I was one of the first to predict that the Palestinian elections will not take place, from the moment that Mahmoud Abbas, the president of security coordination with the...

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May 4, 2021

Turkey to improve ties with Egypt, minister says

Turkish Trade Minister Mehmet Mus said Ankara will improve economic relations with Egypt amid efforts to normalise diplomatic ties between the two countries, local media reported yesterday. “Parallel to...

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May 4, 2021

Israel settlers attack Palestinian homes in Nablus

Extremist Jewish settlers yesterday attacked Palestinian homes in occupied Nablus’ southern town of Qusra. The Palestinian official who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas,...

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