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December 28, 2019

Houthis launch ballistic missile at Saudi city of Najran

On Friday, Houthi rebels announced the targeting of the Saudi city of Najran with a ballistic missile, killing and wounding tens of Saudi soldiers, Anadolu Agency reported. Spokesman of...

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December 28, 2019

Turkey: Ship freed after running aground in Bosphorus

Turkish authorities rescued a Liberia-flagged cargo ship that had run aground in the shoreline of the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul on Friday, Anadolu reports. The ship, called Songa Iridium,...

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December 28, 2019

Haftar air force carries out strike on oil facility in Libya

On Friday, head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar’s militia warplanes launched an air strike on Zawia Oil Refining Company, in western Libya. The media centre of...

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December 28, 2019

Aoun: Lebanon faces unprecedented crisis

Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, stressed that his country is facing “very severe circumstances and an unprecedented crisis in its history.” Aoun called on the security forces in Lebanon to...

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December 28, 2019

Iraq: Al-Binaa Alliance calls for holding president accountable

On Thursday, the Iraqi Al-Binaa Alliance accused the country’s president, Barham Salih, of “violating the constitution and perjury,” and called on parliament to take legal measures against him in...

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December 28, 2019

Athens on deployment of Turkey troops in Libya: Erdogan ‘playing with fire’

Greek alternate minister of foreign affairs, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, attacked the president of Turkey, asserting that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is “playing with fire,” against the backdrop of Ankara’s intention to...

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December 28, 2019

Sisi and Putin agree on importance of resolving Libya crisis

Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, held a phone conversation on Friday with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, where they agreed on the importance of strengthening cooperation between the two...

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December 28, 2019

US civilian contractor killed in Iraq base rocket attack-officials

A US civilian contractor was killed in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Friday, US officials said, Reuters reports. Several...

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December 28, 2019

Sudan to lift fuel subsidies gradually in 2020

Sudan’s transitional government plans to remove fuel subsidies gradually in 2020 and double public sector salaries to ease the impact of galloping inflation, the finance minister said on Friday,...

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December 27, 2019

Turkey unveils first fully homemade car in $3.7bn bet on electric

Turkey unveiled its first fully domestically-produced car on Friday, saying it aimed to eventually produce up to 175,000 a year of the electric vehicle in a project expected to...

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