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September 27, 2020

UAE poet barred from travel for rejecting Israel deal

A prominent Emirati poet said Sunday she was barred from travel over her opposition to her country’s decision to normalise relations with Israel, Anadolu Agency reports. Dhabiya Khamis said she...

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September 27, 2020

Top Iraqi diplomat in Iran after US Embassy warning

Iraq’s foreign minister arrived in Tehran on Saturday morning for a two-day visit of wide-ranging talks in the wake of the US warning it might close its Baghdad embassy...

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September 27, 2020

Libya: 15 migrants die after boat sinks off Libyan coast

At least 15 people died when rubber boats carrying irregular migrants sank Saturday in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Anadolu Agency reported. Libyan...

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September 27, 2020

Ethiopia tells UN ‘no intention’ of using dam to harm Egypt, Sudan

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told the United Nations on Friday that his country has “no intention” of harming Sudan and Egypt with a giant hydropower dam on the...

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September 27, 2020

Fight over the Mediterranean: France’s Proxy War and the Budding Turkish-Russian Alliance

Overwhelmed by uncontrollable circumstances, the Greek government is bracing for another financial crisis that promises to be as terrible as the last one in 2015. Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis,...

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September 27, 2020

Yemen, Houthi rebels agree to exchange 1,000 prisoners

The Yemeni government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels agreed to exchange more than 1,000 prisoners and detainees Saturday, according to government sources, Anadolu Agency reports. Representatives from both sides met in Geneva...

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September 27, 2020

Lebanon’s prime minister-designate quits in blow to French initiative

Lebanon’s prime minister-designate quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a non-partisan cabinet, dealing a blow to a French plan aimed at rallying sectarian...

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September 26, 2020

Palestine professor narrates his suffering inside US jails

Palestinian professor Abdul-Halim Al-Ashqar, originally from the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, narrates his suffering inside US jails during his 15-year detention. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Al-Ashqar, who...

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September 26, 2020

Fattet jaj

Just as Middle Easterners love to stuff things, we also like to layer them with bread and yogurt and turn anything into fatteh! Fatteh comes from the Arabic verb...

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September 26, 2020

Gulf regimes’ normalisation with Israel will not placate the Palestinian struggle

The signing of the so-called “Abraham Accords” last week was an empty sham. A “peace deal” between three countries – Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain –...

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