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October 6, 2019

Erdogan: Turkey to launch military operation in northeast Syria

Turkey will mount a military operation in northeast Syria, it said on Saturday, after accusing Washington of not doing enough to expel Syrian Kurdish fighters from its border. The...

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October 6, 2019

Egypt says talks over Ethiopia’s Nile dam deadlocked, calls for mediation

Egypt said on Saturday that talks with Sudan and Ethiopia over the operation of a $4 billion hydropower dam that Ethiopia is constructing on the Nile have reached a...

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October 6, 2019

China pulls out of Iranian gas field development project

China’s national petroleum company CNPC pulled out of developing phase 11 of the country’s giant South Pars gas field, Iran’s oil minister said on Sunday. Bijan Zangeneh told reporters that the...

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October 6, 2019

Germany wants closer cooperation with Turkey: Minister

Germany’s interior minister on Sunday called for closer cooperation with Turkey to handle the refugee and migration crisis. Horst Seehofer said in an exclusive interview with Welt am Sonntag...

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October 6, 2019

Tunisian president-hopeful boycotts parliamentary polls

Tunisian presidential front-runner Kais Saied has boycotted the country’s parliamentary election, according to an electoral campaign organiser on Sunday. “Saied has decided to boycott the polls,” Sami al-Aydi told...

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October 6, 2019

Turkey slams US Embassy on ‘liking’ a tweet

Turkey on Sunday slammed the US Embassy in Ankara for “liking” a Twitter post by a FETO fugitive, attacking Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). FETO is an acronym for...

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October 6, 2019

Tunisians vote in 2nd parliamentary election since 2011

Tunisians have headed to polls on Sunday to elect their representatives in the parliament. It is the second parliamentary election since the 2011 Arab Spring revolution. Polling stations opened...

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October 6, 2019

Iraq: Speaker vows to join protests if demands unmet

Iraq’s parliament speaker pledged Saturday that if authorities do not respond to protesters’ demands then he will join their ranks. “If the demands of the protesters are not met,...

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October 6, 2019

UN special rapporteur: ‘Saudi Arabia responsible for Khashoggi killing’

UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions said Friday that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi died “as a result of an extrajudicial killing for which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is responsible”. In her...
October 6, 2019

Death toll climbs to 100 in Iraq as protests spread

At least 100 people have been killed since anti-government protests erupted across Iraq earlier this week, according to the country’s health ministry, reports Anadolu Agency. More than 2,500 people...

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