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July 17, 2019

Lebanon’s Hariri signals reservations over IMF proposals

Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Tuesday signalled reservations about International Monetary Fund (IMF) proposals for Lebanon which he said included floating the Lebanese pound, which has been pegged at...

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July 17, 2019

South Korea stipulates exception of settlement goods in trade deal with Tel Aviv

Israel media have revealed that the new South Korea-Israel Free Trade agreement will exclude goods produced in the occupied territories of Jerusalem and West Bank and the Golan Heights....

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July 17, 2019

My loyalty is to Sisi after God, says Egypt official

Egypt’s parliament speaker Ali Abdel Aal yesterday said that he was “loyal” to the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi his “patriotism.” “I have been carrying love for this country...

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July 17, 2019

Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis

History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well The haunting image of...

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July 17, 2019

HRW slams Kuwait’s deportation of ‘Egyptian dissidents’

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday condemned the Kuwaiti authorities for “unlawfully” returning eight Egyptians for allegedly being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood group. The rights organisation warned that the...

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July 16, 2019

Ten Turkish sailors seized by pirates off Nigerian coast

Ten Turkish sailors were taken hostage by armed pirates who attacked a Turkish-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, the vessel’s owner said on Tuesday, adding that another...

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July 16, 2019

Libyan woman walks again after treatment in Turkey

A wheelchair-bound Libyan woman walked again, thanks to the treatment she received at the Medipol Mega University Hospital in Istanbul. Esma Amer, 40, was using wheelchair over past two...

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July 16, 2019

Turkey: Villagers return home 26 years after PKK ordeal

Haunted by the PKK terrorists nearly three decades ago, a village in eastern Turkey has now turned into a peaceful abode, reports Anadolu Agency. Due to frequent terrorist attacks,...

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July 16, 2019

Iran confirms arrest of French-Iranian scholar, gives no details

Iran confirmed on Tuesday it had detained French-Iranian scholar Fariba Adelkhah but declined to give any more details, a day after Paris demanded information on her case, reports Reuters....

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July 16, 2019

Turkey’s Erdogan says Russian S-400s will be fully deployed by April 2020

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the Russian S-400 missile defence system, parts of which have been delivered to Turkey over the past four days, would be...

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