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December 16, 2020

Libya: Mercenaries for Haftar brought from Syria

The Libyan army said Tuesday that a plane carrying Syrian mercenaries landed in Benghazi to support Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar. In a statement to Anadolu Agency, Abdul Hadi Dara,...

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December 16, 2020

Libyans fail to streamline voting process for reforms

Members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum failed Tuesday to reduce the required votes to approve proposals to reform mechanisms regarding choosing executive leaders for the interim period, reports...

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December 16, 2020

UN Security Council approves new UN envoys to mediate Libya, Mideast

The UN Security Council on Tuesday approved a proposal by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint Bulgarian Nickolay Mladenov as the UN Libya special envoy and Norwegian Tor Wennesland as...

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December 15, 2020

Saudis detain hundreds of African migrants in squalid conditions, HRW says

Saudi Arabia is detaining hundreds of mainly Ethiopian migrants in squalid conditions in Riyadh, Human Rights Watch said, quoting some as saying they had been tortured or beaten, and...

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December 15, 2020

US sanctions spark rare show of unity in Turkey’s parliament

Turkey’s parliament showed rare near-unity on Tuesday in condemning US sanctions over its procurement of Russian defence systems and said the country will not hesitate to protect itself in...

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December 15, 2020

Morocco rebuffs EU request to re-admit third-country migrants

Morocco has rebuffed a European Union request to take back third-party nationals who reach Europe from the North African kingdom, its interior ministry said on Tuesday. EU migration commissioner...

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December 15, 2020

Israel signals openness to future joint missile defence with Gulf partners

Israel could be open to future cooperation on missile defence with Gulf Arab states that share its concerns about Iran, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday. But Moshe...

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December 15, 2020

Kushner to lead US delegation to Israel, Morocco

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will lead a US delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalisation deal the two Middle East countries reached...

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December 15, 2020

Canada: Iran’s probe into downing of airliner has major flaws

Iran is not conducting its probe into the downing of a civilian airliner in January properly and many questions remain unanswered, an independent Canadian report into the tragedy said...

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December 15, 2020

US designates Bahrain-based group as terrorist, accusing it of having Iran backing

The United States on Tuesday designated the Bahrain-based Saraya al-Mukhtar group as a terrorist organization, accusing it of being backed by Iran and of having plotted attacks against US...

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