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March 21, 2021

Saudi oil giant Aramco to scale back spending after 2020 profit slump

Saudi Arabian state oil giant Aramco is betting on an Asian-led rebound in energy demand this year after it reported a steep slide in net profit for 2020 on...

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March 21, 2021

Saudi-led coalition pounds Houthi military sites in Sanaa

The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen’s Houthi group struck military targets belonging to the Iran-aligned movement in the capital Sanaa in the early hours of Sunday, residents said, according to...

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March 21, 2021

Thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu ahead of election

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated outside the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Saturday, calling for an end to his leadership just three days before the country’s...

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March 21, 2021

Syrian army shelling of hospital kills 7 in rebel held northwest Syria

At least seven civilians were killed and at least 14 medics were injured when artillery shelling from a Syrian army outpost hit a hospital in a rebel-held town in...

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March 21, 2021

Turkey quits European treaty on violence against women

President Tayyip Erdogan pulled Turkey out of an international accord designed to protect women, the government said on Saturday, prompting protests and criticism from those who said it was...

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March 21, 2021

Supreme leader ushers in Iranian New Year with message of hope

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei welcomed the Iranian New Year as one of “production, support and removal of barriers” in a live televised speech on Saturday, reported Reuters....

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March 21, 2021

I haven’t heard from my mother in 1,400 days due to the Chinese crackdown, says Uyghur academic

As a Uyghur academic and representative of Uyghur Muslims, Professor Abdulresit Celil Karluk has spoken out on the plight of his people languishing in China’s concentration camps since 2017....

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March 20, 2021

Discover Ur, Iraq

Wearing their traditional cassocks and scarlet fascias, and with large golden crosses around their necks, members of the Vatican delegation to Iraq paced across the ruins of the House...

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March 20, 2021

Yemen intensive care units full with COVID-19 patients

Occupancy in intensive care units in quarantine centres has reached maximum capacity in Yemen because of a sharp increase in the number of coronavirus cases in recent days, Yemen’s...

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March 20, 2021

Book Launch: Expulsion of Palestinians, by Nur Masalha

The approach to the conflict between Israel and Palestine and its history in the media has little focus on the violent process of expelling the native people that marked...

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