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March 11, 2019

Qur’an recitation saves protestor from torture in Sudan

Outside an unmarked building in a residential area of Khartoum, Um Mohammed crouched down with her head between her knees unable to stand any longer. She and a few...

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March 11, 2019

Netanyahu: Israel ‘not a state of all its citizens’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel is home only for the Jewish people, ignoring Arab citizens who make up 20 per cent of its population. On...

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March 11, 2019

Iran president visits Iraq, trade deals expected to be signed

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Baghdad today on a three-day visit to Iraq for talks with Iraqi officials. Leading a high-profile delegation, Rouhani was welcomed at Baghdad International...

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March 11, 2019

Sudan emergency court sentences opposition party deputy head to prison

A Sudanese emergency court has sentenced the deputy head of Sudan’s opposition Umma Party, Mariam Sadiq Al-Mahdi, to one week in prison, the Anadolu Agency reported. The emergency court’s...

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March 11, 2019

Minister: 500 women killed in Yemen since 2014

Some 500 women have been killed in Yemen since “the Houthi coup against the legitimate government in September 2014”, the Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Ibtihaj Al-Kamal, said...

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March 11, 2019

Trial of prominent Saudi woman activist to start this week

The trial of Loujain al-Hathloul, one of nearly a dozen prominent Saudi Arabian women’s rights activists detained since last year, will begin on Wednesday, her family said on Twitter, Reuters...

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March 11, 2019

Tunisia investigates death of 11 newborns in hospital

Tunisia’s public prosecution announced, Saturday, the launch of an investigation into the death of 11 newborn babies within 24 hours in a maternity hospital in the capital. The initial...

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March 11, 2019

The Algerian mummy

The country of the million martyrs will not stand helpless in the face of those who want to disparage it and its noble perseverant people who have sacrificed millions...

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March 11, 2019

Egypt’s Sisi appoints military officer as new transport minster

Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday appointed a senior army officer as the country’s new transport minister, replacing his predecessor Hisham Arafat who resigned in February after the recent...

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March 11, 2019

Rights group: ‘Violations against women in UAE prisons’

The International Centre for Justice and Human Rights condemned “the violations committed against women in the UAE in general and in detention centres in particular”. In a report published on its website entitled...

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