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September 16, 2020

Amazon mulls building its largest warehouse in Egypt

Amazon started initial negotiations to acquire 100 feddans (420,000 square metres) acres in Egypt’s western city of Sohag to establish warehouses to serve the Upper Egypt region, SeeEgy reported...

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September 16, 2020

Analyst: Pakistan could normalise ties with Israel

A British-Pakistani analyst said he expects Pakistan to follow Gulf Arab countries and normalise ties with Israel, Israel Hayom reported on Monday. Noor Dahri, founder and executive director of Islamic Theology...

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September 16, 2020

Explosive device targets British diplomatic vehicle in Baghdad

An improvised explosive device has targeted a British diplomatic vehicle near the heavily guarded Green Zone in the Iraqi capital Baghdad yesterday, Anadolu news agency reported. The agency quoted a local...

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September 16, 2020

Jerusalem walls used as political canvas in normalisation deals

The ramparts of Jerusalem, built for battle, were commandeered for a messaging war between Israelis and Palestinians in the build-up to Israel’s normalisation deals with the UAE and Bahrain....

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September 16, 2020

UN chief to appoint special envoy to broker peace in Libya

The UN Security Council on Tuesday asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint a special envoy to broker peace in Libya, although Russia and China abstained from voting on the...

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September 16, 2020

Israeli aircraft strike Gaza during White House ceremony

Israeli aircraft attacked in Gaza on Wednesday, witnesses said, and sirens warning of rocket fire from the Palestinian territory sounded in southern Israel. The witnesses said a training base...

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September 16, 2020

Joint action against the Israeli occupation has been called for, better late than never

The decisions taken by the secretaries-general of the Palestinian factions on 3 September in a joint online meeting from Ramallah and Beirut have been embodied in the first statement...

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September 15, 2020

Egypt cuts highways across pyramids plateau, alarming conservationists

Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an international outcry. The Great Pyramids,...

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September 15, 2020

Defying fatwa, Iraqis flock to COVID cemetery to exhume dead, re-bury elsewhere

It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew’s grave and exhume the body at a cemetery in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf...

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September 15, 2020

Sudan stumbles into the future with no expectation of real change

The pending cabinet reshuffle, schedule next month, is unlikely to make a huge difference to Sudanese current economic difficulties. Despite the signing of two peace deals ending 17 years...

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