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March 11, 2020

Turkish Foreign Ministry summons Greek envoy

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned Greek Ambassador to Ankara Michael-Christos Diamessis over his country’s violations of Turkish territorial waters and detention of journalists, Anadolu reports. The Foreign Ministry...

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March 11, 2020

Egypt’s confirmed coronavirus cases increase to 67

Egypt has registered seven new coronavirus cases bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 67, the health ministry said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Of the total number, at...

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March 11, 2020

Iran agrees to send black boxes of crashed jet to Ukraine

Iran’s aviation authority has agreed to send black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner to Kiev for analysis, Iran’s representative at the United Nations’ aviation agency told Reuters on...

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March 11, 2020

Assad plans ‘death, displacement or detention’ in Idlib

The Bashar al-Assad regime is planning “death, displacement or detention” for Idlib residents in northwestern Syria, an activist said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. Mouaz Moustafa, who heads the Washington-based advocacy...

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March 11, 2020

Greece denies report of secret ‘black site’ for migrants near Turkish border

The Greek government dismissed on Wednesday a report in The New York Times newspaper that it was holding illegal migrants who cross the border from Turkey at a secret...

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March 11, 2020

Rockets hit Iraq military base housing US forces

An Iraqi military base, which houses US forces, was targeted by rockets on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. Al-Taji military airbase, located 85 kilometres (some 53 miles) north of capital Baghdad,...

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March 11, 2020

In change, US describes East Jerusalem Palestinians as ‘Arab residents’

The US State Department changed its standard description of East Jerusalem Palestinians from “Palestinian residents” of the city to “Arab residents” or “non-Israeli citizens” in an annual global human...

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March 11, 2020

WHO describes coronavirus outbreak as pandemic

The World Health Organization is characterising the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. “We are deeply concerned both...

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March 11, 2020

What is this trial in Riyadh all about?

Sixty-eight Palestinians and Jordanians, along with their Saudi sponsors, appeared before a court in Riyadh this week charged with belonging to and financing a “terrorist entity”. This was a...

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March 11, 2020

Qatar’s coronavirus cases jump by 238

Qatar announced 238 new confirmed cases of coronavirus today saying the number of infections was likely to increase, Al Jazeera reported. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the...

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