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September 21, 2020

Palestinians are not numbers: On the future of the Palestinian discourse

Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanising, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else entirely. Numbers are not meant...

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September 21, 2020

Iran’s Zarif says wrestler Afkari executed for murder, not role in unrest

Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari was executed earlier this month for murder, the country’s foreign minister said on Monday, rejecting assertions by rights activists that the death sentence arose from...

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September 21, 2020

Turkey to the rescue amid onion shortage in Bangladesh

Turkey has offered to export 15,000 tons of onions to Bangladesh amid a price hike due to an export ban by India. “Turkey has offered to export 15,000 tons...

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September 21, 2020

EU sanctions Turkish company accused of breaking Libya embargo

The European Union imposed sanctions on Monday on a Turkish shipping company accused of breaking a UN arms embargo on Libya and whose vessel was involved in a naval...

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September 21, 2020

Iran says it is ready to swap all prisoners with US

Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a virtual address to the Council on Foreign Relations in...

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September 21, 2020

UAE-owned Sky News Arabia removes ‘Palestine’ from interview backdrop

UAE-owned Sky News Arabia has been accused of removing the word ‘Palestine’ from a poster which appears in a TV interview backdrop. Beirut-based Dar El-Nimer cultural centre said the TV broadcaster replaced the word ‘Palestine’ with ‘Lebanon’ on a...

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September 21, 2020

Aoun warns Lebanon will go ‘to hell’ unless government agreed

President Michel Aoun warned on Monday Lebanon was going “to hell” if a new government was not formed, and said agreeing one could need a miracle after positions had...

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September 21, 2020

Hebron: Ibrahimi Mosque closed by Israeli forces for second day in a row

Israeli occupation forces have closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron for the second day in a row during the Jewish holiday of Rosh...

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September 21, 2020

Lebanon on verge of crisis as medicines in short supply

Lebanon is facing a new crisis, as medicines are in short supply and supplies are taking more than four weeks to secure. Beirut based pharmacist, Mahdi, told Asharq Al-Awsat news site...

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September 21, 2020

Bulgarian court sentences Lebanese pair over Israeli tour bus attack

A Bulgarian court has sentenced two Lebanese men, in absentia, to life imprisonment without parole for their involvement in a 2012 bomb attack on an Israeli tour bus, Agence...

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