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February 1, 2019

Venezuela sells UAE gold in exchange for cash

Venezuela will sell 15 tonnes of gold from central bank vaults to the United Arab Emirates in the coming days in return for euros in cash, a senior official...

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February 1, 2019

Remembering the 1979 Iranian Revolution

On 1 February 1979, Air France flight 4721 landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport at 09:27. On board were 120 international journalists and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khomeini had been...

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February 1, 2019

Saudi-led coalition attacks drone storage site east of Sanaa

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has attacked a site east of the capital Sanaa which the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement used to store drones, Saudi news agency SPA said...

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February 1, 2019

Egypt media told to keep silent on parliament arrangements to amend Constitution

Sources from the Egyptian parliament revealed that there are strict instructions issued by the intelligence officer in charge of the presidency, to newspaper editors and television hosts not to...

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February 1, 2019

Facebook removes hundreds of accounts tied to Iran

Facebook said Thursday it had removed 783 accounts that were part of a campaign of “coordinated, inauthentic behaviour” tied to Iran, Anadolu reports. “The Page administrators and account owners typically represented themselves...

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February 1, 2019

Gargash: We reject establishment of buffer zone in Syria

UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, expressed his country’s objection to the creation of a buffer zone in Syria, while he refused to express his opinion...

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February 1, 2019

Abbas receives Israel delegation for two-state solution talks

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday met with an Israeli economic delegation from the Breaking the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock foundation to hold talks on the two-state solution. In a meeting, Abbas...

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February 1, 2019

Lebanon: Suicide case every 60 hours, suicide attempt every 6 hours

Suicides cases in Lebanon increased in 2018 to 200, compared to 143 in 2017, bringing the number of suicide cases between 2009 and 2018 to 1,393, with one suicide...

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February 1, 2019

Morocco denies ‘potential’ visit by Israeli president

The Moroccan government’s spokesperson, Mustapha Al-Khalfi, yesterday denied recent reports, claiming that the North African country was expecting a visit by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a...

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February 1, 2019

Egyptian lawyer files complaint against rights defenders’ meeting with French president

An Egyptian lawyer filed a complaint on Wednesday to the country’s attorney general, demanding the arrest of a group of human rights advocates following their recent meeting with the...

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