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February 18, 2021

Husband bans Iran ski coach from travelling to world championship

Iranian women’s Alpine ski coach Samira Zargari has not been able to attend the world championships in Italy because her husband banned her from travel, Iranian media reports have said....

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February 18, 2021

Lebanon removes judge heading blast probe, victims’ lawyer says

A Lebanese court decided on Thursday to remove investigating Judge Fadi Sawan from the Beirut port blast probe, Youssef Lahoud, the lawyer who represents around 1,400 victims of the...

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February 18, 2021

Sisi urges families to have 2 children to save the state $1 trillion

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has warned the population not to have more than two children to keep costs on the state down. On 1 January the Central Agency...

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February 18, 2021

Turkey, Russia and Iran agree to extend ceasefire in Idlib

Turkey, Russia and Iran agreed on Wednesday to extend the ceasefire in Idlib, Syria, sources close to the Astana Peace Process have confirmed. The three countries are the guarantors...

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February 18, 2021

12th century Moorish hammam discovered under popular Seville tapas bar

A twelfth century hammam has been discovered during the renovation of a tapas bar in the southern Spanish city of Seville. The extraordinary discovery was made when a team...

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February 18, 2021

Blanket of snow covers the West Bank, as Gaza hit by rough seas

A cold spell hit the Palestinian territories last night leaving a blanket of snow on parts of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The...

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February 18, 2021

Blanket of snow covers Istanbul

READ: Snow blankets Saudi Arabia and Algeria as temperatures plummet...

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February 18, 2021

For too many Egyptians, the cup of clean drinking water is always half empty

I suffer a lot in my efforts to obtain water. We bear the costs in full because if we didn’t, we would never get water. I can no longer...

Publications
February 18, 2021

Biden has reassured Netanyahu that the status quo is safe

With US President Joe Biden’s first call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now out of the way, the first inklings of the new administration’s diplomacy regarding Palestine and...

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February 18, 2021

Abbas rejects reconciliation with Dahlan

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is resisting pressure from Egypt and Jordan to reconcile with former Fatah security head Mohammed Dahlan, Al Jazeera Arabic news website reported on Wednesday. Dahlan...

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