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December 7, 2020

Young Egyptian finds fortune in scorpions

Several years ago, a young Egyptian man abandoned his degree in archaeology to hunt scorpions in the country’s deserts and shores, extracting their venom for medicinal use. At just...

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December 7, 2020

Israel legitimises settlement outposts and thus proceeds with silent annexation

Weeks before the March 2020 General Election in Israel, the main pillar of the right-wing campaign headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was propaganda based around “annexation” of more...

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December 7, 2020

Protester killed in Iraq’s Kurdistan region after days of unrest

A protester was shot dead during demonstrations against Kurdish political parties in the northern, Kurdish-run region of Iraq on Monday after several days of unrest, local medical officials and...

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December 7, 2020

Iranian official denies rumours of decline in supreme leader’s health

An official close to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied rumours on social media on Monday that the 81-year-old’s health was deteriorating. “By the grace of God and...

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December 7, 2020

Towards a French Kulturkampf; what’s happening in France?

What’s happening in France? It’s a reasonable question that worries even international authorities, the UN included, not least because independent UN human rights experts have declared that a controversial...

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December 7, 2020

200 Israelis stuck in Dubai airport following initial entry denial

Around 200 Israeli passengers were held up in Dubai International Airport (DXB) this morning due to a brief change of immigration rules, Al-Khaleej Times reported. According to Israel’s Channel 12 TV, the...

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December 7, 2020

FM: Lebanon won’t give up rights even if maritime talks take 20 years

Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs in the caretaker government, Charbel Wehbe, said his country will not give up its rights in the maritime democratisation file, even if the negotiations...

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December 7, 2020

Envoy: No reasons given for UAE’s arrest of 14 Lebanon citizens

Lebanon’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Fouad Dandan, said he does not have information on the reasons why Emirati authorities arrested 14 Lebanese citizens last month as...

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December 7, 2020

Iran says ‘smart satellite-controlled machine gun’ killed top nuclear scientist

Iranian authorities said a smart satellite-controlled machine gun killed its top nuclear scientist in Tehran, Tasnim news agency quoted a senior commander saying yesterday. According to the Iranian news site, the...

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December 7, 2020

An open letter to Scarlett Johansson

Dear Scarlett Johansson, I would like to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude and appreciation for your strong support for human rights in Egypt. You have succeeded in exposing...

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