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April 2, 2020

Remembering Saudi’s arrest of Hamas’ Al-Khodari one year on

This week marks one year since Saudi authorities detained Dr Muhammad Saleh Al-Khodari, Hamas’ official representative in the Kingdom. The eighty-one-year-old was arrested shortly after undergoing sensitive surgery. Al-Khodari,...

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April 2, 2020

Will the coronavirus claim Saudi’s ‘Vision 2030’ as its victim?

With the world predicted to change in ways that were unimaginable only a few weeks ago due to the coronavirus outbreak, can Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman pull...

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April 2, 2020

Israel health minister, wife contract coronavirus

Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and his wife have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his office said late yesterday. In a statement, the Health Ministry said the 71-year-old...

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April 2, 2020

Iraq launches military operation against Daesh remnants

Iraqi forces yesterday announced targeting Daesh-dwelled areas in the country’s northern governate of the Saladin. “Iraqi F-16 fighter jets managed to destroy Daesh targets in the Saladin governorate, leaving...

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April 2, 2020

Report: 145 Syrians killed in March

Some 145 civilians were killed in Syria following clashes between the regime forces and the opposition in March, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced yesterday. “At least...

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April 2, 2020

Syria army loots opposition properties in Idlib

Syrian regime forces and Iranian-backed militias have started to loot homes and properties of opposition civilians, in the areas recently recaptured in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib. Anadolu...

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April 2, 2020

UNRWA distributes food aid to families in Gaza

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has resumed the distribution of food aid in the Gaza Strip on 31 March. UNRWA...

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April 2, 2020

Kuwait under review for economic downgrade as oil prices fall

Kuwait has been placed on review for a downgrade of their credit ratings by the agency Moody’s Investors Service, severely lowering the country’s likely ability to repay its debt....

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April 2, 2020

Ethiopia: ‘We will start filling the Renaissance Dam by autumn’

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the start of the filling of the Renaissance Dam by next autumn, although no agreement has yet been reached with Egypt after Ethiopia’s...

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April 2, 2020

Algeria: Former chief of police sentenced to 15 years in prison

On Wednesday an Algerian court sentenced the former director-general of the Algerian police, Major General Abdelghani Hamel, to 15 years in prison on charges of corruption and illicit enrichment, along...

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