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December 23, 2019

Iraq: Constitutional vacuum after failure to choose prime minister

Iraq has entered a constitutional vacuum after the deadline set for political parties to agree on the next prime minister passed without success. The agency said hundreds of anti-establishment...

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December 23, 2019

Oldest Palestinian prisoner in Israel jails slams PLO, Fatah

Palestinian prisoner General Fuad Al-Shobaki has slammed members of PLO’s Central and Executive Committees as well as members of Fatah’s Military and Revolutionary Councils for ignoring the issue of...

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December 23, 2019

UAE witnesses rare public protest

In a rare display of public opinion in Dubai, a small demonstration has been held to protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial citizenship law passed earlier this...

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December 23, 2019

Sudan Forces of Freedom and Change call on premier to dismiss two ministers

The Sudanese Forces of Freedom and Change has asked Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok to replace the ministers of foreign affairs and agriculture due to their poor performance, local media...

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December 23, 2019

Swiss government resumes UNRWA funding

The Swiss Foreign Ministry has lifted its five-month freeze on payments to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The temporary suspension...

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December 23, 2019

Israel, Greece, Cyprus to sign gas pipeline deal

Israel, Greece and Cyprus will sign in Athens early next year an agreement to build the largest marine gas pipeline in the world allowing Tel Aviv to export natural...

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December 23, 2019

Saudi Arabia sentences 5 to death in Khashoggi’s case, frees ex-adviser to crown prince

Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death in the case of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the kingdom’s public prosecutor announced today. The public prosecutor told...

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December 23, 2019

Yemen Houthis, Iran sign first military cooperation deal

An Ambassador appointed by Yemen’s Houthis to Tehran Ibrahim Dailami has signed a military cooperation deal with Iran, in the first such formal deal between the two parties. “The...

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December 23, 2019

Libya’s GNA rejects Haftar’s deadline to withdraw from Tripoli

Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) rejected the timeframe set out by retired Major General Khalifa Haftar for their withdrawal from the country’s western cities of Tripoli and Sirte,...

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December 23, 2019

Israel praises Egypt’s renovation of synagogue

Israel has praised Egypt’s renovation of a synagogue in Alexandria in the north of the country. “We are pleased to see Dr Khalid Al-Anani, the Egyptian minister of tourism...

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