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December 22, 2020

Europe’s human rights court calls on Turkey to release Demirtas

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Wednesday that Turkey should immediately release prominent Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas, and said the justification for his years in prison was...

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December 22, 2020

Street sweeper killed in latest attack on liquor stores in Iraq

A street sweeper died of his wounds in Baghdad yesterday hours after finding a bomb in a bag placed outside a liquor store in the Iraqi capital. Issa Khamis “was...

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December 22, 2020

Southern Yemen military personnel threaten to take control of Aden presidential palace

The Coordinating Council for Retired Military and Security personnel in southern Yemen have today threatened to take control of the presidential Al-Maashiq palace in the interim capital of Aden...

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December 22, 2020

The hacking of Al Jazeera journalists’ phones should be of great concern to Qatar

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt started their blockade of the State of Qatar in mid-2017. They accused their neighbour of, amongst other things, “supporting terrorism...

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December 22, 2020

China joins in Iran gas drilling op in South Pars site

Iran and China last week started drilling operations in Phase 11 of Iran’s supergiant South Pars non-associated natural gas field officially, oilprice.com reported. Gas recovery from the resource will commence in...

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December 22, 2020

Iraq Shia militias to investigate attacks on US embassy in Green Zone

The umbrella group of Iran-backed Shia militias in Iraq, known as the Hashd Al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), have begun investigating rocket attacks on the US embassy and...

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December 22, 2020

Iran launches ‘indirect talks’ with US President-elect Joe Biden

Iran has opened indirect dialogue channels regarding the nuclear deal with the administration of US President-elect Joe Biden, Israel’s Walla reported yesterday. Quoting Israeli security officials, the news website...

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December 22, 2020

Campaign to stop Israeli military recruitment in Canada gathers pace

A campaign to end the illegal recruitment of Canadian citizens by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has been gathering pace. One hundred and seventy prominent Canadian faith leaders, activists,...

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December 22, 2020

Luxembourg bank helped UAE’s MBZ bypass US sanctions, attack Qatar, report reveals

A report by Bloomberg News has uncovered further details of the sordid relationship between UAE Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed and the Luxembourg-based private bank, Banque Havilland. A trove of emails, documents,...

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December 22, 2020

The international narrative about Gaza, the illegal blockade and Covid-19

Politicians are portraying Palestine in terms of a state of emergency, while avoiding any public recognition of the fact that colonialism has created permanent instability there that is exacerbated...

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