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March 2, 2021

US refuses to say if Saudi’s MBS is on its ban list

In another sign of the anxiety within the Biden administration over the fallout from last week’s intelligence report which blamed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman for the grisly killing of...

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March 2, 2021

UK PM Churchill’s painting of Marrakech sells for $11.5m

A painting of Marrakech by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sold at auction for £8.3 million ($11.5 million) yesterday. The price, which includes a hefty commission of £1.3...

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March 2, 2021

Twelfth prisoner dies of covid in Egypt

Former Egyptian parliamentarian, Mahmoud Youssef, has become the twelfth person to die in an Egyptian prison since the start of the year and the ninth prisoner since February after...

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March 2, 2021

Sudan: army recovers land after fierce clashes on Ethiopian border

The Sudanese army is reported to have recovered land after fierce clashes on the Ethiopian border. Fighting took place in Al-Fashaqa Al-Kubra in the east Sudan state of Gedaref...

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March 2, 2021

Algeria: political activist sentenced to 7 years in prison

A court in Algeria has sentenced a political activist to seven years in prison on charges of “incitement to terrorism”, according to local media. Clashes erupted between Algerian youth...

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March 2, 2021

Libya interim PM elected through bribery, UN inquiry says

Libya’s interim prime minister was elected after bribing participants to vote in his favour, a UN inquiry seen by Agence France Presse (AFP) has found. Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, 61, reportedly offered...

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March 2, 2021

Tunisia faces calls to investigate officials’ free vaccine from UAE

Tunisian MPs have called for an investigation into allegations that senior state officials received 1,000 free doses of the coronavirus vaccine from the UAE at the beginning of February....

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March 2, 2021

Anger in Egypt as government demands citizens register homes or lose electricity

Anger is growing in Egypt over amendments to a real estate law that stipulates property owners must register their property and those that don’t will not have access to...

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March 2, 2021

Barghouti and Qudwa give Abbas ultimatum for accepting electoral list

Senior Fatah leaders Marwan Barghouti and Nasser Al-Qudwa have given Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas until 5 March to accept their electoral list, Lebanon’s Al-Akbar reported on Monday. Abbas...

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March 2, 2021

French senator calls for quid pro quo for Algerian access to national archive

A French senator has called on the government to allow Algerian access to colonial archives in France, but only if there is reciprocal access for French researchers to Algeria’s...

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