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March 24, 2021

Oman: 46,000 expats left in six months

The Omani Ministry of Labour yesterday revealed that more than 46,000 expatriate workers permanently left the Sultanate over the last six months, local media reported. “The total number of...

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March 24, 2021

Turkey: currency crisis after bank governor sacked

The value of the Turkish lira has fallen by 15 per cent after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sacked the governor of the country’s central bank over the weekend. Naci...

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March 24, 2021

Tunisia: freeze on funds linked to ex-president extended by Canada

Tunisia’s Acting Justice Minister, Hasna Ben Slimane, announced on Monday that Canada has extended the freeze on funds linked to former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The decision...

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March 24, 2021

Middle East Quartet discusses return to ‘meaningful negotiations’

The international Middle East Quartet made up of the European Union, the Russian Federation, the United States, and the United Nations discussed on Tuesday a “return to meaningful negotiations”...

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March 24, 2021

Yemen declares state of emergency over sharp spike in covid cases

Yemen’s internationally recognised government declared a health emergency in areas under its control, as infections in a second wave of a coronavirus epidemic surge, Reuters reported. Yemen’s six-year war has...

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March 24, 2021

IAEA chief calls for new nuclear deal with Iran

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said that reviving the nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers is “impossible” and called for striking a new...

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March 24, 2021

HRW slams detention of 43,000 in Syria with ‘implicit consent’ of their nationality countries

Human Rights Watch has criticised the detention of 43,000 men, women, and children in northeast Syria “often with the explicit or implicit consent of their countries of nationality.” These...

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March 24, 2021

China plans to invite Palestine, Israel for talks, Saudi media says

The Chinese government plans to invite Israelis and Palestinians to hold talks in China, Al-Arabiya TV channel cited today Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as saying in an interview. Reuters reported Wang,...

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March 24, 2021

Iraq: Citizens abroad cannot vote in elections

Iraq’s Independent High Election Commission has cancelled the participation of Iraqi citizens abroad in snap parliamentary elections, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported yesterday. “The commission decided today to cancel...

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March 24, 2021

Iran says it supports ceasefire in Yemen

Iran said yesterday that it supports any peace plan in Yemen that declares a nationwide ceasefire, a day after Saudi Arabia offered to end nearly six years of war...

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