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February 3, 2020

Ousting Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar is ‘big mistake’

Egyptian journalist Sulieman Joudeh has warned against ousting the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayeb, noting this would be a “big mistake” that would undermine the religious institution, Al-Mesryoon...

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February 3, 2020

Erekat slams US Kushner’s claims Palestinians unable to make peace

Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, criticised US President Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, for wanting to “distort the Palestinian...

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February 3, 2020

Egypt parents arrested after 12-year-old girl dies from genital mutilation

A 12-year-old girl has died after her parents forced her to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in Egypt. The doctor, who performed the procedure in a village in Assiut...

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February 3, 2020

US grants Saudi dissident political asylum

The United States has granted political asylum to Saudi dissident, Abdulrahman Almutairi, after discovering that the Saudi embassy had attempted to return him to the kingdom following his criticism...

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February 3, 2020

Palestinians announce national committee against Trump’s deal

Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip yesterday announced the formation of a national committee against US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, Assabeel newspaper reported. The new body...

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February 3, 2020

Saudi Arabia to hand Palestine, Jordan citizens over to courts

Fourteen Palestinian and Jordanian prisoners being held by Saudi Arabia will be tried, the Shehab News Agency reported yesterday, after spending months in detention without charge. The news site...

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February 3, 2020

Israel once again bans import of cement to Gaza

Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday stopped cement entering the besieged Gaza Strip and cancelled entry permits issued to hundreds of Gaza traders, Safa news agency reported. Reporting the...

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February 3, 2020

US forces expand military presence in north-east Syria

US forces are expanding their military presence in the two largest military bases at the Omar and Tal Baydar oil fields controlled by Kurdish units in the north-east of...

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February 3, 2020

Peace plans have no function except to serve Israel’s colonial takeover of Palestine

It will prove to be Israel’s misfortune that the Zionist project to take over Palestine got underway at a period when settler-colonialism was coming to be viewed with moral...

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February 3, 2020

Rights group: Death toll from protests in Iraq hits 556

The death toll from anti-government protests in Iraq has risen to 556, Iraq’s Independent High Commission for Human Rights said Sunday, Anadolu reports. A statement from the press office...

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