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January 13, 2020

‘Cold cells’ campaign hopes to close Egypt’s notorious Scorpion wing

The friends and family of prisoners in Egypt have launched a social media campaign to raise awareness of the dire conditions inside Egypt’s prisons. Under a number of hashtags...

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January 13, 2020

Israel fined Palestinian minors $15,500 in December

Israeli occupation courts ordered Palestinian minors held in Ofer Prison to pay a total of 54,000 shekels ($15,500) in fines during December, Quds Press reported yesterday. According to a...

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January 13, 2020

Haftar-linked parliament speaker says may ask Egypt to intervene in Libya

The Speaker of the Tobruk Parliament, Aguila Saleh, yesterday warned that he may ask the Egyptian armed forces to intervene in Libya if other countries send troops into the...

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January 13, 2020

Kurdistan president: Not the right time for withdrawal of coalition forces

Now is not the right time for the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from Iraq, President of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, said yesterday. The fight against Daesh is...

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January 13, 2020

Ethiopia calls on South Africa to mediate Renaissance Dam dispute

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said yesterday that he had asked South Africa’s president to mediate his country’s dispute with Egypt over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam. Ahmed, who visited...

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January 13, 2020

Israel accelerates processing of East Jerusalem Palestinians’ citizenship applications, most rejected

Israeli authorities dramatically accelerated the processing of citizenship applications by Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem in 2019, reported Haaretz, with the majority rejected. A total of 1,361 applications...

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January 13, 2020

US forces are unlikely to leave Iraq anytime soon

Just days after the US drone attack that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced that he had asked Washington to remove its...

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January 13, 2020

US threatens to quash Iraq’s economy if its forces are expelled

The US administration threatened to block Iraq’s access to its funds in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York if Baghdad expels American troops from the country, the Wall...

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January 13, 2020

Two decades on, Israel court orders state to compensate five Palestinians for destroyed property

An Israeli military court has ordered the state to compensate five Palestinians whose plant nurseries were destroyed by the army almost 20 years ago, reported Haaretz. On 14-15 November...

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January 13, 2020

Israel: Labor-Gesher and Meretz to run on joint list in March election

The Labor-Gesher and Meretz parties announced today that they will merge and run on a joint slate in the Israeli elections scheduled for 2 March, reported the Times of...

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