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January 17, 2019

Yemen combatants start talks in Jordan on prisoner swap deal

Yemen’s warring sides started talks in Amman on Wednesday on how to implement a prisoner exchange that will allow thousands of families to be reunited as part of UN-led...

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January 16, 2019

Egypt borrows $1.2bn from China to fund electric train project

Egypt has signed a $1.2 billion loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China (EximBank) to finance an electric railway project, the country’s transport minister, Hesham Arafat, announced yesterday....

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January 16, 2019

Turkey helps stranded Sudanese woman get back home

A Sudanese woman stranded in Syria for the last eight years has finally made it home with her children with the help of Turkey’s government, a Turkish aid group,...

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January 16, 2019

Germany: Court rules deported Tunisian should not be returned

A German court ruled on Wednesday that a suspected Islamist militant who was deported to Tunisia in July must not be returned to Germany, saying it no longer believed...

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January 16, 2019

Trump says Palestinian state on most of West Bank

Israeli television said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan would propose a Palestinian state on as much as 90 percent of the occupied West...

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January 16, 2019

Declining levels in Iraq’s Euphrates threaten livelihoods

READ: ‘Dangerous disease’ hits tomato produce...

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January 16, 2019

Daesh ‘defeated’ in Syria says US Vice President

Daesh has been defeated in Syria, US Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday, hours after American soldiers were killed in a northern Syria bomb attack claimed by the...

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January 16, 2019

Sudanese forces disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Kassala

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Kassala, capital of the remote eastern state of the same name, eyewitnesses said, in the first protests...

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January 16, 2019

Palestinians protest controversial social security law

READ: PA’s social security law to come into force despite public outcry...

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January 16, 2019

Lebanese lawmaker fights ‘degrading’ citizenship law against women

Nine months after being voted into the 128-seat Lebanese parliament as one of six female lawmakers, Paula Yacoubian is urging fellow legislators to help change discriminatory laws that are...

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