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January 12, 2021

Tunisia to lock down for four days from Thursday

Tunisia will impose a four-day national lockdown from Thursday along with lesser measures lasting until January 24 to combat a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases, Health Minister Fouzi Mehdi...

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January 12, 2021

Iran denies Pompeo’s assertion it has ties with al Qaeda

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday rejected as “warmongering lies” an assertion by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Iran has ties to the Islamist militant...

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January 12, 2021

Kuwait government resigns en masse in challenge for new emir

Kuwaiti ministers handed in their resignations to the prime minister on Tuesday, the government communications office (CGC) said, days after lawmakers submitted a motion asking to question the premier...

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January 12, 2021

Number of Tunisian migrants landing in Italy rose fivefold in 2020

The number of Tunisian migrants landing on Italian shores soared fivefold to 13,000 in 2020, a rights group said on Tuesday, citing economic privations in Tunisia that fuel migration...

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January 12, 2021

Pompeo says al Qaeda has new home in Iran, gives no hard evidence

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, without providing hard evidence, that al Qaeda had established a new home base in Iran and the United States had...

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January 12, 2021

France condemns Israel’s plan to build more settler homes in West Bank

France on Tuesday condemned Israel’s plan to advance construction of 800 more Jewish settler homes in the occupied West Bank in a move to cement the projects shortly before...

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January 12, 2021

Egyptian court orders two female TikTok stars be freed from jail

An Egyptian court on Tuesday ruled in favour of two female TikTok stars who were jailed last year for accounts that were found to violate family morals and for...

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January 12, 2021

Staunchly pro-Israel billionaire Adelson dies aged 87

Sheldon Adelson, a major funder of the US Republican Party and supporter of both Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has died in Malibu, California, aged 87....

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January 12, 2021

Tunisia MP launches hunger strike in protest of abuse in parliament

Female Member of Tunisia’s Parliament Samia Abbou has launched a hunger strike in protest against alleged abuse she has suffered at the hands of her colleagues. The representative of...

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January 12, 2021

Israel applies double standards in determining if violence is acceptable or not

“Shocking scenes of violence” was how the Jewish Insider described last week’s storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump. It...

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