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  • November 8, 2019

    Turkey to start extraditing Daesh members November 11

    Turkey will start extraditing captured Daesh terrorists on November 11 to their home countries, according to Turkey’s interior minister, Anadolu reports. “PYD releases Daesh terrorists and we capture them,”...

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  • November 8, 2019

    HRW: Iraqi forces kill protesters with tear gas shells

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Iraqi security forces of firing tear gas canisters directly at protesters’ heads which led to the death of 16 protesters since Oct. 25,...

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  • November 8, 2019

    Pompeo says NATO must change, or risk becoming obsolete

    US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday NATO must grow and change or risk becoming obsolete, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said the alliance was...

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  • November 8, 2019

    Israel’s Netanyahu appoints far-right Bennett as defence minister

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed the head of a far-right political party as defence minister of his caretaker government, a spokesman for the premier’s right-wing Likud party said...

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  • November 8, 2019

    Palestinians rally for weekly demonstrations in Gaza

    Hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday flocked to the security fence to participate in weekly anti-occupation protests known as the Great March of Return, Anadolu Agency reports. Protesters...

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  • November 8, 2019

    UN: Egypt prison conditions may have led to Morsi’s death

    The prison conditions in Egypt may have directly led to the death of former President Mohamed Morsi, and may be placing the health and lives of thousands more prisoners...

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  • November 8, 2019

    Velvet

    “The rain was not in a docile mood.” Huzama Habayeb’s opening sentence of her novel Velvet (Hoopoe Fiction, 2019), beckons the reader to delve into intertwining worlds: the extravagance...

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  • November 8, 2019

    Jewish Chronicle urges Britons not to vote for Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn 

    With just over a month to go until the British public cast their vote in what is expected to be a close race in the country’s most important General...

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  • November 8, 2019

    Egypt: Al-Azhar Grand Imam warns Sisi of injustice

    Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, has warned Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi against injustice. Al-Tayeb reminded the Egyptian president that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)...

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  • November 8, 2019

    Iran pulls out of deaf sports championship to avoid Israel

    The Iranian sports team has withdrawn from the upcoming fourth World Deaf Futsal Championships in Switzerland after being scheduled to play against Israel. Iran’s National Deaf Futsal Team beat...

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