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September 25, 2020

Palestine calls for international talks on ‘real peace process’

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to hold an international conference on “a real peace process based on international law” to end the...

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September 25, 2020

Iraq reports nearly 4,600 more virus cases, 68 deaths

Iraq reported close to 4,600 new coronavirus cases and 68 more deaths on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. The nationwide death toll now stands at 8,867, according to the Health Ministry. A...

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September 25, 2020

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

“Under these circumstances, talking to a Western reporter could be a death sentence. And yet here in Douma, as soon as people saw that I was a journalist, they...

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September 25, 2020

MPs urge UK to recognise Palestine, boycott settlement products

Speaking during a House of Commons debate on settlements and annexation, UK Members of Parliament called on the government to immediately recognise the State of Palestine on the basis...

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September 25, 2020

Turkey jails Australia’s first Daesh bride

Australia’s first Daesh bride, Zehra Duman, who left Melbourne to join the terrorist group has been jailed in Turkey for three years after fleeing a Syrian refugee camp with...

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September 25, 2020

Yemen: accusations fly over lack of access to medicine

Yemen’s Houthi-aligned government yesterday accused the Saudi-led coalition of denying the country access to vital medicine. According to Dr Taha Al-Mutawakil, the Minister of Health in the National Salvation...

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September 25, 2020

Iraq plans to build nuclear reactor for research purposes

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has ordered the formation of a committee tasked to build a nuclear reactor for research purposes, the Iraqi Radioactive Sources Regulatory Authority (IRSRA) revealed...

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September 25, 2020

Turkey: Opposition party mayor among those to be arrested for 2014 Kobani protests

Turkish authorities today issued arrest warrants for 82 people, including an opposition party mayor, following protests in the town of Kobani six years ago, CNN Turk reported. The warrants date back...

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September 25, 2020

Hamas, Fatah agree to hold elections in Palestine within 6 months

Hamas and Fatah have agreed to hold the first elections in Palestine in nearly 15 years, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported. Following a meeting at the Palestinian Embassy in Istanbul, a press...

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September 25, 2020

Moody’s downgrades Kuwait over liquidity risks

Moody’s Investors Service on Tuesday downgraded Kuwait by two levels to A1 citing the increase in the government’s “liquidity risks”. The credit rating company said it expects the Kuwaiti...

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