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  • January 3, 2019

    Hamas calls on Palestinians to confront Abbas dictatorship

    Hamas called on the Palestinian national and Islamic factions to work together to confront what the movement called “the dictatorship of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his oppressive...

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  • January 3, 2019

    Israel has a new right-wing party

    When two Israeli ministers from the Jewish Home Party announced that they were forming a new right-wing party, many analysts sought a definition that would encompass the description in...

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  • January 3, 2019

    Iran FM ridicules US, Israel exit from UNESCO

    Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif mocked America and Israel’s decision to leave the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). “The Trump regime – along with the...

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  • January 3, 2019

    Israel halts construction of Palestinian facilities in Bethlehem

    Israeli occupation authorities issued stop-work orders to Palestinians building homes and farming structures in the village of Nahalin in the west of Bethlehem, Quds Press reported yesterday. The Israeli...

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  • January 3, 2019

    Egypt to discuss penalties for media

    Egypt’s Supreme Council for Media Regulations will discuss the penalties which will be imposed on media organisations as part of the country’s media by-laws, the head of the department...

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  • January 3, 2019

    Qatar approves setting up global data centre for Microsoft

    The Qatari cabinet yesterday approved plans to set up a global data centre for Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure and took measures to draft a law to create a Media...

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  • January 3, 2019

    Rights group: Over 30 people killed in clashes in north Syria

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday that more than 30 people were killed during clashes between the Al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and the Turkish-backed National Liberation...

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  • January 3, 2019

    Tunisian teachers resume protests after winter break

    Teachers in Tunisia resumed on Wednesday their protests after the winter break to demand an increase in financial benefits, as well as other professional demands and restructuring the education...

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  • January 3, 2019

    For Shanahan, a very public debut in Trump's cabinet

    Patrick Shanahan was thrust into the spotlight during his debut as acting US defence secretary on Wednesday, sitting next to President Donald Trump as he publicly disparaged Shanahan’s predecessor,...

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  • January 3, 2019

    Senior UAE official offers to help Qatar in FIFA World Cup

    The General Secretary of Abu Dhabi Sports Council, Aref Al-Awani, expressed his country’s readiness to provide help in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which would be hosted by Doha....

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