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November 29, 2020

Turkey condemns killing of Iranian nuclear scientist

Turkey on Saturday condemned the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Anadolu Agency reports. “We regret that the Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh lost his life as a result of an...

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November 29, 2020

Reclaiming the space Between Beirut and the Moon: Naji Bakhti on his debut novel

Lebanese author Naji Bakhti’s debut novel is timely even though it is set in 2006. Touching on issues of adolescence, sectarianism, culture, conflict and emigration, Between Beirut and the...
November 29, 2020

Man who ‘walked from Cape Town for pilgrimage’ accused of ‘theft and fraud’

An article about a South African man who claimed to have walked from Cape Town to Jerusalem has been taken down by MEMO after it was revealed that he...

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November 28, 2020

‘Insulting beliefs far from freedom’: Turkey’s president

Decrying rising Islamophobia in Western countries, the Turkish president said Saturday that insulting people’s beliefs has nothing to do with freedom, reports Anadolu Agency. “You have been closely following...

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November 28, 2020

Al-Shabaab claims suicide attack in Somalia’s capital

The Al-Shabaab militant group on Saturday claimed responsibility for last night’s suicide bombing in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, reported by Anadolu Agency. At least eight people were killed in the...

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November 28, 2020

Haaretz: 50% increase in exemptions from army for mental health

The Israeli Defence Forces’ Manpower Directorate has announced that 11.9 per cent of draft-age Israeli men who were subject to conscription have received mental health exemptions, Israeli newspaper Haaretz...

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November 28, 2020

Bahrain is yet to normalise ties with its own people

If the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition’s war on Yemen was known as “the forgotten war”, the 2011 anti-government protests in Bahrain soon became “the forgotten uprising”. Forgotten in the sense...

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November 28, 2020

Russia: Pompeo visit to settlement reflects US disrespect to international principles

Commenting on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, on Friday Moscow accused the US of disrespecting principles of international law,...

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November 28, 2020

UN: Israel blockade results in $16.5bn loss to Gaza economy

A new United Nations (UN) report found that the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip has resulted in $16.5 billion losses to its crippling economy and pushed more than...

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November 28, 2020

Turkey rejects European resolution to impose sanctions on Ankara

Ankara rejected on Friday a “non-binding” resolution by the European Union (EU) parliament to impose sanctions on Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on the Maras...

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