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January 26, 2018

Iraq resumes compensation payments to Kuwait

Kuwait’s Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Khaled Al-Jarallah, has confirmed that Iraq has resumed its compensation payments in respect of the 1990 invasion. He noted that Baghdad made the...

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January 26, 2018

Twitter user sentenced to 10 years in Kuwait for insulting Gulf States

A criminal court in Kuwait has issued a new ruling in absentia to imprison Kuwaiti Twitter user Abdullah Al-Saleh for 10 years for insulting the Gulf States. The ruling...

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January 26, 2018

Israel assassinates more people than any Western country, concludes new book

Blowing up commercial airliners and an entire stadium full of spectators were just two of the plans ordered by the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in his long...

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January 26, 2018

Al-Sisi needs 3 million votes to win Egyptian elections

Mahmoud Al-Sherif, a spokesman for the National Elections Commission in Egypt, has told Al-Masry Al-Youm that only one person – current President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi – had submitted his...

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January 26, 2018

Syrians with temporary US protection brace for Trump decision

Targeted by the Syrian government after providing humanitarian supplies to civilians fleeing air strikes, Mohammad Alala and his wife escaped in 2012, eventually obtaining student visas to enter the...

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January 26, 2018

Palestinian envoy to DC slams ‘backstabbing’ Trump administration

The Palestinian Ambassador to Washington, Husam Zomlot, slammed what he described as the “backstabbing” Trump administration, in remarks reported by Haaretz on Thursday. Zomlot, speaking at the Middle East...

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January 26, 2018

Palestinians urge publication of UN database of companies complicit in settlements

Palestinian organisations have urged the United Nations to publish a much anticipated database on businesses complicit in Israel’s illegal settlements, in a joint statement released this week. According to...

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January 26, 2018

The media needs to be honest about civilian deaths in Syria and Iraq

Walk along any High Street in Britain and ask passers-by who causes more civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria, the West or Russia, and you will almost certainly hear...

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January 26, 2018

Moroccan socialist party calls for country’s withdrawal from Saudi-led military operations in Yemen

Morocco’s Unified Socialist Party has called for the country’s withdrawal from the Saudi-led military coalition that has been fighting Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militias. The party added in the concluding...

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January 26, 2018

Former Iraq trade minister extradited to Iraq on corruption charges

Interpol has handed over former Trade Minister Abdul Falah Al-Sudani to Iraq’s Integrity Commission, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported. Al-Sudani, who was arrested in September last year in Beirut,...

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