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April 20, 2021

Sudan briefs Security Council on Nile Dam crisis

Sudan’s foreign minister on Tuesday said she briefed the UN Security Council on the failure of the Kinshasa talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, Anadolu Agency reported. In...

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April 20, 2021

The mighty US military has been humbled by the Taliban

The war in Afghanistan has been called the most pointless conflict of all time. It is probably the most disastrous military venture launched by the US, Britain and their...

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April 20, 2021

Israel is undermining efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal

After two weeks of deliberations in Vienna about reactivating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell told reporters...

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April 20, 2021

Egypt buys 20m doses of China covid vaccine

Egypt has agreed to purchase 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China’s Sinopharm and expects to receive a batch of 500,000 shots this month, Reuters reported its Ministry...

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April 20, 2021

Abbas statements are complicit with Israeli settler-colonialism

Known for belatedly spouting known truths, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was true to form in his address to the J Street conference recently, which revealed the extent of...

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April 20, 2021

UN rights experts demand release of Dubai ruler’s daughter

UN experts today demanded the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provide information about a daughter of Dubai’s ruler and release her, two months after the BBC aired a video it said was...

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April 20, 2021

Ramadan helps Egypt female bakers make a living

For 35-year-old Nour Al-Sabah Mohammed and her crew of bakers, business is brisk during the holy month of Ramadan. The women travel by train to Cairo to sell their...

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April 20, 2021

Israel starts military exercises along Jordan border

The Israel Defence Forces started military exercises along the border with Jordan yesterday, the Israeli defence ministry has announced. The ministry’s Crossing Authority said that the training would take...

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April 20, 2021

Egypt: Sawiris’ net worth up $3.3bn in 2020, Forbes says

Prominent Egyptian businessman Nassef Sawiris’ fortune has hit $8.3 billion, Forbes reported yesterday.“It appears that Sawiris’ fortune in 2020 amounted to $5 billion,” Forbes said in its annual ‘The World’s Billionaires’ report. The...

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April 20, 2021

Chemical weapons watchdog to decide on sanctions for Syria

The international chemical weapons watchdog will decide today whether to suspend Syria for its repeated use of chemical weapons, Reuters has reported. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical...

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