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September 13, 2018

Remembering the signing of the Oslo Accords

On this day in 1993, Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, shook hands after signing the Oslo peace accords, in...

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September 13, 2018

France seeks release of citizen held by Yemeni Houthis

France is in talks with Houthi forces in Yemen to secure the release of one its citizens held since June after his boat ran into difficulty near the country’s...

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September 13, 2018

Libya agrees to impose fees on foreign currency transactions

Libya’s UN-backed authorities decided on Wednesday to impose fees on foreign currency transactions as well as review fuel subsidies, a government statement said, Reuters reports. It gave no details how...

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September 13, 2018

US Republicans seek sanctions on Iraqi militias with Iran ties

Republican US senators plan to introduce legislation on Wednesday seeking to counteract what they see as Iran’s increasing influence in Iraq, amid concern about attacks in Iraq by groups...

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September 13, 2018

Tony Blair: world’s strategy for countering Islamist extremism flawed

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will warn on Thursday that the threat from Islamist militants is growing and the current approach for tackling the threat will fail unless...

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September 13, 2018

Egypt seizes funds of oppositionists and State Treasury devours Aboutrika’s assets

Decisions are being made from time to time in Egypt to seize the assets of individuals, companies, charities, schools, hospitals, newspapers, agricultural lands and cars. At the same time,...

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September 13, 2018

Mahmoud Abbas: the lost Palestinian leader

I do not know what is happening in our miserable Arab world. Our beloved Syria is burning and has been destroyed so severely as if by an earthquake at...

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September 12, 2018

UN documents further Syrian govt use of banned chemical weapons

UN investigators said on Wednesday that they had documented three further uses of banned chlorine weapons by Syrian government forces that constituted war crimes, and urged major powers to help...

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September 12, 2018

Pompeo says Saudi, UAE trying to avoid civilian harm in Yemen

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that he certified to Congress that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were working to reduce civilian casualties in...

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September 12, 2018

Iran, US heading towards a clash in Iraq

The storming of the Iranian Consulate in Basra last Friday has dramatically demonstrated the simmering anti-Iranian feelings amongst some sections of Iraqi society. It has also exposed the extent...

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