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May 7, 2020

Lebanon blocks currency exchange apps, claims they share rates illegally

Lebanon’s telecoms ministry has issued a decree blocking access to approximately 28 currency exchange applications which report local rates, claiming they share the “exchange rates illegally”, local media outlet Annahar reported....

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May 7, 2020

PLO slams US Ambassador for inciting crimes against Palestinians

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has condemned comments by US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman urging the new Israeli government to expedite the annexation of...

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May 7, 2020

Yemen separatists reinforce Socotra despite truce

The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen has sent military reinforcements to the Socotra archipelago in the Arabian Sea, despite a de-escalation agreement with the internationally-recognised government supported...

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May 7, 2020

Saudi installs sterilisation gates in Makkah, Madinah

Saudi has installed “advanced self-sterilisation gates” at the entrances of the grand mosques in Makkah and Madinah in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus. According to Saudi24,...

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May 7, 2020

UN experts: Attack on Saudi Aramco were not from Yemen

A panel of UN experts said Houthi fighters in Yemen could not have launched the missile attacks that targeted Saudi Aramco facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais on 14 September...

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May 7, 2020

Israel demands major changes to UN peacekeeping in Lebanon

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said his government is demanding major changes to UN peacekeeping in Lebanon, in a video press briefing yesterday, AP reports. Danon told reporters that Israel’s government,...

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May 7, 2020

US Ambassador in Israel incites annexation and settlement building

The United States is ready to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley as well as the illegal Israeli settlements in the rest of the occupied West Bank, US...

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May 7, 2020

WHO: Coronavirus will inevitably reach Gaza

The representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Gaza, Dr Abdul Naser Soboh, said on Wednesday that the coronavirus Covid-19 is heading inevitably to Gaza as it has...

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May 7, 2020

Iran: Trump will regret withdrawing from nuclear deal

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that US President Donald Trump will regret withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear agreement, IRNA news agency reported. “Extremists in America as well as Israel have...

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May 7, 2020

PA asks UN chief to exert efforts to undermine Israel’s annexation plan

Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour yesterday asked the UN Secretary-General António Guterres to halt Israel’s plan to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper...

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