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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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January 26, 2018

Sudan bans 130 import-export companies from banking transactions for failing to pay foreign currency revenues to government

Sudan’s central bank banned 130 import-export companies from all kinds of banking transactions, according to a statement cited by Anadolu Agency. The ban comes in response to the companies’...

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January 26, 2018

Kurdistan denies agreeing to hand over its oil to Baghdad

The prime minister of Kurdistan Regional Government, Nechirvan Barzani, has said that his government will not hand over the Iraqi region’s oil to the federal government in Baghdad, contrary...

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January 25, 2018

US says committed to peace, won't chase Palestinians

The US said Thursday it is committed to advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace, but will not pursue Palestine’s leadership which has not done “what is needed” for peace, Anadolu reports. “The...

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