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May 29, 2020

Is the US enriching Iran’s nuclear program?

The United States said on Wednesday it will terminate sanctions waivers that had allowed Russian, Chinese and European companies to carry out work originally designed to make it harder...

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May 29, 2020

Friday prayers held in Turkey for the first time since virus outbreak

Turkey is to ease its coronavirus restrictions from Monday, as it continues in its fight against the pandemic, President Recep Tayyib Erdogan announced yesterday. As of 1 June, civil...

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May 29, 2020

Ten years after Israel’s hijacking of the Mavi Marmara, we cannot forget those who it killed

It is ten years since a live broadcast from the Mediterranean on Aljazeera TV came to an abrupt end. On 31 May 2010 I was watching human rights activists...

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May 29, 2020

Russia, Saudi Arabia agree to strengthen tie to stabilise oil prices

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman agreed on Wednesday to strengthen coordination to cut oil production and stabilise the global oil market. The Kremlin...

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May 29, 2020

Education in Lebanon threatened by coronavirus, economic crisis, says Save the Children

The coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis in Lebanon risks depriving many students of the right to education, a Save the Children report released today says. A survey of 137 Lebanese,...

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May 29, 2020

Syria: Makhlouf transfers seized assets to his charity

Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf said yesterday that he had donated his shares in banks and insurance companies to Ramak Development and Humanitarian Projects; a charity dedicated to members of...

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May 29, 2020

Abu Sitta: Elections must be held for Palestinian National Council

Chairman of the General Assembly of the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad and founder of the Palestine Land Society (PLS), Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, yesterday called for the Palestinian...

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May 29, 2020

Netanyahu: Palestinians in annexed Jordan valley will not be given rights as Israelis

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Palestinians must fulfil “ten difficult conditions” before they obtain their own “entity” as defined by US President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘peace plan’....

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May 29, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s puppet Yemen government is hanging by a thread

Last Friday, 22 May, was Unity Day in Yemen, a national holiday marking the unification of the North and South which took place on that date in 1990. The...

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May 29, 2020

US alerts citizens ahead of Israel’s annexation plan

The American Embassy in Jerusalem yesterday issued a security alert to US citizens residing in or considering travel to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip ahead of Israel’s...

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