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December 16, 2020

Greece increases military spending by 57% due to tension with Turkey

Greece has increased its military spending by 57 per cent (5.5 billion euros), following rising tension with Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. Greece also intends to modernise its old...

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December 16, 2020

World Bank approves $250m loan to Morocco

The World Bank has agreed to grant Morocco $250 million to support local agricultural, as part of a joint operation with the French Development Agency. This came in a...

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December 16, 2020

Saudi Arabia pushes for Qatar rift breakthrough at summit

An annual Gulf Arab summit has been put off to January while parties locked in a rancorous row that led to a boycott of Qatar work towards announcing a...

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December 16, 2020

Pakistan returns $1 bln of Saudi Arabia’s loan over Kashmir dispute

Pakistan has returned $1 billion to Saudi Arabia as a second instalment of a $3 billion soft loan, as Islamabad reaches out to Beijing for a commercial loan to...

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December 16, 2020

US blacklists Chinese, UAE companies over sale of Iranian petrochemicals

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on companies based in China and the United Arab Emirates, accusing them of supporting the sale of Iranian petrochemicals as Washington increases...

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December 16, 2020

Lebanon to get first batch of COVID-19 vaccines in 2 months

Lebanon is expected to sign a deal this week for supplies of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine and is set to receive the first batch eight weeks after that, the caretaker...

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December 16, 2020

Tunisia: normalisation with Israel ‘not on agenda’

Tunisia has no plans to follow Morocco’s decision to normalise relations with Israel, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi told France 24 on Monday. “For Tunisia, the question is not on...

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December 16, 2020

Hackers threaten to leak personal information after attacking Israel insurance firm

An Israeli insurance company is being threatened by hackers who broke into the firm earlier this month and stole files consisting of personal details of its workersr and clients....

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December 16, 2020

Wagner to pay $304,800 to 2 Russians freed in Libya

Russia’s private security company, Wagner, yesterday said it intended to pay 18 million Russian rubles ($304,855) to two of its members who were arrested in Libya on espionage charges...

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December 16, 2020

Palestinian-American director Hind Shoufani tells MEMO about her new documentary

Artist, director and poet Hind Shoufani insists that her Palestinian-ness is a political act. “It is a choice to be on this side of history,” she tells me, “whether...

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