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April 25, 2019

Sudanese continue protesting to demand civilian rule

Thousands of people continued to demonstrate Thursday outside army headquarters in capital Khartoum to demand that Sudan’s ruling Military Transitional Council (MTC) relinquish power to a civilian authority, Anadolu Agency reported....

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April 25, 2019

Turkish, Russian, Iranian officials discuss Syria peace

Officials from Turkey, Russia, and Iran met Thursday in the Kazakh capital Nursultan to discuss technical issues around ongoing talks between the three nations to find a settlement to...

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April 25, 2019

Israeli authorities detain Palestinian man escorting ill wife at Erez

The Israeli authorities detained a Palestinian man, who was escorting his ill wife, while at the Erez crossing (Beit Hanoun) in the northern besieged Gaza Strip, Ma’an News has reported. The...

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April 25, 2019

Israel warns nationals against travel to Sri Lanka

Israel on Thursday warned its citizens against travelling to Sri Lanka following the recent spate of terrorist attacks in that country, Anadolu Agency reports. In a “level-two” travel advisory, Israel’s Counter-terrorism...

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April 25, 2019

Is Haftar right in claiming there are terrorists and militias in Tripoli?

Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), has long claimed that terrorists and rogue militias are controlling the capital Tripoli, placing his campaign as part...

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April 25, 2019

Spokesman: Sudan’s ruling military council will retain ‘sovereign authority’

Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council will retain “sovereign authority only”, while civilians will hold the post of prime minister and head all government ministries, the council’s spokesman said on...

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April 25, 2019

Iran makes Zaghari-Ratcliffe prisoner swap offer

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has proposed a prisoner swap between a British-Iranian dual national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and Iranians facing extradition to the US. Iran sentenced Zaghari-Ratcliffe to...

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April 25, 2019

Egypt’s ‘battle of the boxes’ fed the world a distorted image of the nation

Egypt has just spent three days playing out the constitutional amendment referendum, complete with clichéd dancing in the streets to horrendous songs that we first heard after the military...

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April 25, 2019

US coalition killed over 1,600 civilians in Syria’s Raqqa, says Amnesty

The US-led international coalition killed more than 1,600 civilians during its assault on the Syrian city of Raqqa against Daesh militants, an 18 month investigation by Amnesty International and...

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April 25, 2019

The self-declared Jewish state is a light unto the Islamophobes

Islamophobia has become the leading identifier of far-right groups all around the world. Fascism always requires an “other”, a demonised minority group that can be scapegoated and blamed for...

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