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January 17, 2019

Russia calls for regime’s control over north Syria

The Syrian regime must take control over the country’s north, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said yesterday. “We are convinced that the best and only solution is the...

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January 17, 2019

Blast claimed by Daesh kills US troops in Syria

A bomb attack claimed by Daesh killed two US troops and two civilians working for the US military in northern Syria on Wednesday, weeks after President Donald Trump said...

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January 17, 2019

Yemen combatants start talks in Jordan on prisoner swap deal

Yemen’s warring sides started talks in Amman on Wednesday on how to implement a prisoner exchange that will allow thousands of families to be reunited as part of UN-led...

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January 16, 2019

Egypt borrows $1.2bn from China to fund electric train project

Egypt has signed a $1.2 billion loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China (EximBank) to finance an electric railway project, the country’s transport minister, Hesham Arafat, announced yesterday....

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January 16, 2019

Turkey helps stranded Sudanese woman get back home

A Sudanese woman stranded in Syria for the last eight years has finally made it home with her children with the help of Turkey’s government, a Turkish aid group,...

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January 16, 2019

Germany: Court rules deported Tunisian should not be returned

A German court ruled on Wednesday that a suspected Islamist militant who was deported to Tunisia in July must not be returned to Germany, saying it no longer believed...

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January 16, 2019

Trump says Palestinian state on most of West Bank

Israeli television said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan would propose a Palestinian state on as much as 90 percent of the occupied West...

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January 16, 2019

Declining levels in Iraq's Euphrates threaten livelihoods

Are Iraq's rivers running dry?...

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January 16, 2019

Daesh 'defeated' in Syria says US Vice President

Daesh has been defeated in Syria, US Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday, hours after American soldiers were killed in a northern Syria bomb attack claimed by the...

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January 16, 2019

Sudanese forces disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Kassala

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Kassala, capital of the remote eastern state of the same name, eyewitnesses said, in the first protests...

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