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December 4, 2020

Saudi cancels meeting with Israel official after secret meeting with Netanyahu exposed

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has cancelled a meeting with an Israeli official after details of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unannounced trip to the Saudi city of...

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December 4, 2020

Bahrain, Israel on same front against Iran, Manama minister says

Bahrain and Israel are “on the same front” against the Iranian threat and “for humanity and humanitarian values, Israeli media outlets reported a Bahraini official saying during an official...

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December 4, 2020

It is time to make it official and brand Israel as an apartheid state

No one should throw accusations of racism around lightly because, if proven, then swift action must follow. The trade union movement in Britain, which represents over six million British...

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December 4, 2020

Morocco votes ‘Yes’ in historic UN vote on rescheduling cannabis

Morocco was among several other countries who voted in favour of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)’s rescheduling cannabis and cannabis-related substances as a less dangerous drug. The...

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December 4, 2020

US blocks Xinjiang cotton imports over Uyghur ‘slave labour’

The US Customs and Border Protection agency said on Wednesday that its ‘Withhold Release Order’ would ban all cotton products from China’s Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, one of China’s largest producers, Reuters reported. The ban...

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December 4, 2020

Nigeria pirates demand $1.3m to release Lebanon, Egypt hostages

Nigerian pirates who hijacked a cargo ship and kidnapped the crew last week have demanded $1.3 million in exchange for their release, the National reported. Ten crew members, including three...

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December 4, 2020

Palestinian child suffers broken jaw while in Israel detention

A Palestinian child detainee underwent surgery yesterday after he was brutally beaten by Israel soldiers, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS). The 16-year-old from the Al-Arroub refugee camp,...

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December 4, 2020

SOHR: Over 900 mercenaries return to Syria from Karabakh

More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian fighters have returned home following the end of hostilities between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory...

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December 4, 2020

Egypt releases EIPR staff after international outcry

Egypt released three senior staff of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) group on Wednesday amidst an international outcry over their arrest, the BBC reported. Human rights activists Karim Ennarah, Gasser Abdel-Razek...

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December 4, 2020

In first-ever, female academic chairs Saudi Shura Council meeting

The Shura Council of Saudi Arabia, a consultative body that has no-executive power within the absolute monarchy, made its own little history today by allowing a woman to chair...

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