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April 2, 2021

Germany to propose Beirut port reconstruction with ‘strings attached’

Germany will next week present a multi-billion-dollar proposal to Lebanese authorities to rebuild the Port of Beirut as part of efforts to entice the country’s politicians to form a...

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April 2, 2021

Yemen: desperate appeals to save conjoined twins

Conjoined twins Yousef and Yassin, who were born joined at the head in Hadhramaut, have suffered major difficulties to have normal lives, especially after their impoverished family failed to...

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April 2, 2021

Lebanon witnesses suicide case every 60 hours

Lebanon witnesses a suicide case every 60 hours, a new study revealed, Anadolu reports. Based on suicide statistics from the Lebanese Internal Security Forces between January 2008 and December...

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April 2, 2021

HRW: Saudi man arrested as juvenile could face execution despite reforms

Human Rights Watch says a Saudi man who was convicted following a “grossly unfair trial” for crimes committed when he was a minor risks being executed although the Saudi...

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April 2, 2021

Nine Fatah candidates withdraw from movement’s electoral list

As many as nine members of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah – withdrew on Thursday from the movement’s electoral list for parliamentary elections just as the Central...

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April 2, 2021

Iran’s Rouhani: delaying return to nuclear deal will harm P5 + 1 group

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned on Thursday that further delay in returning to the 2015 nuclear deal signed between his country and the UN Security Council’s five permanent members...

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April 2, 2021

US plans lifting Trump’s sanctions on ICC officials

The administration of US President Joe Biden plans to revoke the sanctions imposed by his predecessor, President Donald Trump, on the International Criminal Court (ICC) top officials as early...

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April 2, 2021

Report: Abbas slammed Shin Bet’s chief for interfering in Palestinian elections

The Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas is claimed to have slammed the Israeli intelligence service’s interference in the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections scheduled for May, Israel’s public broadcaster KAN...

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April 2, 2021

US reaffirms position that West Bank is occupied territory

The US State Department has reaffirmed its position which considers the West Bank as territory occupied by Israel. “It is a historical fact that Israel occupied the West Bank,...

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April 2, 2021

‘Women of my generation viewed freedom fighters as similar to Guevara, Castro and Mandela’

When Sahar Khalifeh was young, her family didn’t support her dream of becoming a writer. They regarded art as a sin that would ultimately destroy the family’s reputation. “The...

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