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January 29, 2021

Hamas welcomes WHO decision not to remove Palestinian health from agenda

Hamas yesterday welcomed the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s decision not to agree to an Israeli proposal to remove a standalone item from the agenda of the 74th World Health...

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January 29, 2021

Is Biden going to make US aid conditional on more Palestinian concessions?

When Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States, some Palestinians raised their hopes that he might replace Trump’s reckless approach to their situation. They forget that...

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January 29, 2021

Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia

The history of the Arabian Peninsula before the rule of the Al-Saud royal family is rich, diverse, cosmopolitan and largely forgotten. Rosie Bsheer’s new book Archive Wars: The Politics...

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January 29, 2021

UN: 700 persons displaced in Yemen in two weeks

The United Nations (UN) announced on Thursday that the escalation of clashes in Al-Hudaydah governorate, west of Yemen, has led to the displacement of at least 700 people since...

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January 29, 2021

UAE responds to Biden administration’s freeze of F-35 deal

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador to Washington Yousef Al-Otaiba considers that the announcement made by US President Joe Biden’s administration regarding halting arms sales to the Emirates and Saudi Arabia...

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January 29, 2021

Human rights organisation urges UN to intervene in Salman Al-Ouda’s release

A Swiss human rights organisation has called on the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to urge Saudi Arabia to release detained preacher...

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January 29, 2021

Algeria: Sentences pronounced in Bouteflika campaign’s ‘hidden financing’ case

The Judicial Council of Algiers on Thursday pronounced the sentences in the case of “hidden financing” of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s election campaign. Two former prime ministers, Ahmed Ouyahia...

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January 28, 2021

Tunisia’s PM: ‘Attempt to harm president means targeting Tunisia’

Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has declared that any attempt to harm President Kais Saied means targeting Tunisia and its people. The official news agency confirmed that Mechichi called...

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January 28, 2021

Iran says US, not Tehran, should act first to resolve nuclear deal row

The United States should act first by returning to world powers’ 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that it ditched in 2018, the Iranian foreign minister tweeted on Thursday after...

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January 28, 2021

Amnesty demands France to halt weapons sale to Lebanon

A new investigation by Amnesty has linked law enforcement equipment supplied by France with the excessive use of force deployed by security forces in Lebanon during the anti-government demonstrations, Anadolu...

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