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March 31, 2019

Libya holds municipal elections in first vote for five years

Libya held rare municipal elections in nine communities on Saturday, although turnout in the country’s first voting for five years reached only about 38 percent, according to a Reuters...

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March 31, 2019

Pope, Morocco’s king, say Jerusalem must be open to all faiths

Pope Francis and Morocco’s King Mohammed VI called on Saturday for the protection of Jerusalem’s multi-religious character, saying the city’s sacred sites must be accessible to worshippers of all...

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March 31, 2019

Tunisia says UN official arrested in anti-terrorism probe

Tunisian authorities have detained a UN official involved in monitoring an international arms embargo on Libya as part of an investigation by an anti-terrorism unit, state news agency TAP...

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March 31, 2019

Pope in Morocco says physical barriers won’t solve migration issue

Pope Francis said on Saturday that problems of migration would never be resolved by physical barriers but instead required social justice and correcting the world’s economic imbalances, reports Reuters....

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March 31, 2019

Tunisia delays presidential elections by one week to Nov 17

Tunisia has delayed the first round of its presidential elections by one week to November 17, a spokesman for the elections commission said on Friday. The initial date had...

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March 31, 2019

Egypt’s Sisi raises monthly minimum wage

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has raised the country’s minimum wage to 2,000 Egyptian pounds ($116) a month from 1,200 pounds, he said at an event on Saturday celebrating...

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March 31, 2019

Iran evacuates flood-threatened villages after heavy rains kill dozens

Authorities in Iran worked on Saturday to evacuate villages threatened by flooding in southwestern areas as forecasters predicted more of the heavy rains that have killed at least 45...

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March 31, 2019

Teenage African migrants accused of hijacking tanker after sea rescue

Three teenage migrants were charged in a Maltese court on Saturday with hijacking a small commercial tanker that had rescued them and others off the coast of Libya, reported...

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March 31, 2019

30 men sentenced for Egyptian church attack plot

Thirty men were sentenced to between 10 years to life imprisonment on Saturday for planning a suicide bombing on a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria and other...

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March 30, 2019

Today’s Great March of Return is a turning point in Palestinian collective memory

Despite Israeli efforts to deter Palestinians from taking part in today’s Great March of Return, and in spite of the cold weather conditions which prevailed, a tsunami of demonstrators...

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