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September 16, 2019

Iraq signs deal for electricity from Gulf States

Iraq has signed a landmark deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for a power line to import 500 megawatts of electricity by 2020, local reports said on Sunday....

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September 16, 2019

PLO will end all agreements with Israel

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) affirmed yesterday the position of its President Mahmoud Abbas that it would end all agreements signed with Israel, the Wafa...

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September 16, 2019

PA security officers shoot at Birzeit University students

Four of Birzeit University’s student leaders in the occupied West Bank have disappeared after being chased and shot at by Palestinian Authority security officers. The incident happened in Ramallah....

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September 16, 2019

Remembering the Sabra and Shatila massacre

Thirty-seven years ago this week, one of the bloodiest chapters in Palestinian history unfolded in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Surrounded by Israeli forces from all sides, thousands of...

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September 16, 2019

Tunisia: Poll suggests surprise result in presidential vote

Supporters of the independent presidential candidate, Kais Saied in Tunisia began celebrations after a polling firm projected him as the winner, Anadolu reports. About 45% out of seven million...

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September 16, 2019

Fired: Secretary-General of Algeria’s High Independent Authority for Election Monitoring

Algeria’s Acting President Abdelkader Bensalah dismissed on Sunday the Secretary-General of Algeria’s High Independent Authority for Election (HIISE). According to Algerian newspaper Ennahar, the Algerian presidency said that the...

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September 16, 2019

Kuwait MP: ‘Expats must pay even for air they breathe’

Kuwaiti MP Safaa Al-Hashim has called for the imposition of fees for any service that expatriates benefit from, saying that there should pay “even for the air they breathe.”...

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September 16, 2019

Iraq denies using its territories to attack Saudi oil facilities

Iraq’s Cabinet denied Sunday, accusations against it of using its territories to attack Saudi oil facilities by drones. “Iraq denies what has been circulated by some media outlets and...

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September 16, 2019

Trump says US ‘locked and loaded’ for potential response to Saudi oil attack

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United States was “locked and loaded” for a potential response to the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities, after a...

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September 16, 2019

Egyptian army announces upgrading air base with US support

The Egyptian army announced on Sunday the completion of an airbase development work, in cooperation with the US. Army spokesman Colonel Tamer Al-Rifai said in a statement that the...

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