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August 10, 2020

GCC calls on UN Security Council to extend Iran’s arms embargo

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Saturday urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to extend an arms embargo on Iran which is due to expire on 18 October....

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August 10, 2020

100,000 expats to permanently leave Kuwait by the end of 2020

As many as 100,000 expatriate workers will permanently leave Kuwait by the end of this year, Al-Qabas newspaper reported yesterday. The paper quoted security sources as saying that campaigns have intensified...

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August 10, 2020

Twelve years after his death, the works of Mahmoud Darwish are still being published

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died on 9 August 2008. He was known as the poet of love, the poet of resistance and the poet of Palestine. Darwish was born...

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August 10, 2020

Lebanon Maronite Patriarch calls on government to resign over Beirut blast

Lebanon’s Christian Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai yesterday called on the Lebanese government to resign as it cannot “change the way it governs” the country and help it recover...

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August 9, 2020

Turkish soldier killed in Northern Iraq

A Turkish soldier was killed in a clash with terrorists in a cross-border anti-terror operation Saturday in northern Iraq, according to the Turkish National Defense Ministry, Anadolu reports. The...

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August 9, 2020

Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes western Iran

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake on Sunday shook Kermanshah Province in western Iran, said officials, Anadolu reports. The quake that hit at 1.46 p.m. local time (1046GMT) had a depth...

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August 9, 2020

Iraqi prime minister to visit US next week

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi is scheduled to visit Washington next week for talks with US President Donald Trump, according to his office on Saturday, Anadolu reports. Al-Kadhimi’s talks...

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August 9, 2020

Turkey confirms 1,172 new cases of COVID-19

Turkey on Saturday confirmed 1,172 additional cases of COVID-19, raising the tally to 239,622, according to the country’s health minister, Anadolu reports. “Pneumonia rates are down across Turkey. We...

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August 9, 2020

Iraq reopens Shalamija border crossing with Iran

Iraq announced the resumption of trade movement through the Shalamija crossing with Iran on Sunday, Reuters reports. “Around 250 trucks will cross the terminal from Sunday to Wednesday every...

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August 9, 2020

Rouhani: Tough anti-virus measures ‘not possible’

The Iranian president said on Sunday that the application of tough measures in the country to stem the spread of coronavirus was “not possible.”, Anadolu reports. Speaking during a...

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