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  • June 30, 2017

    UK banks stop trading Qatari riyals

    Britain’s Lloyds Banking Group said today that it has stopped trading Qatari riyals and that the currency is no longer available for sale or buy-back at its high street...

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  • June 30, 2017

    UN: Demand for Qatar to close down Al Jazeera ‘unacceptable’

    A demand by Saudi Arabia and three other Arab nations for Qatar to close down its Al Jazeera TV channel is an “unacceptable attack” on the right to freedoms...

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  • June 30, 2017

    Israel demands $2.9m compensation for soldiers’ deaths

    A Palestinian family is being taken to court in an effort to force it to pay 10 million shekels ($2.86 million) compensation after four Israeli soldiers were killed in...

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  • June 30, 2017

    ‘Israel responsible for patients’ deaths in Gaza’

    Israel must immediately lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and refrain from politicising the lives of civilians, a statement released by the organisations working for Palestine in...

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  • June 30, 2017

    Pro-Qatar graffiti appears on Saudi monument

    A video released online appears to show pro-Qatari graffiti which has been sprayed onto a Saudi landmark in the Qassim region of Saudi Arabia. The words “All of us...

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  • June 30, 2017

    27% rise in crime rate in Israel

    The crime rate in Israel has increased by 27 per cent since the start of the year until the month of May compared to the same period of 2016,...

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  • June 30, 2017

    Qatar: Arab boycott is a ‘declaration of war’

    A “declaration of war without blood” has been made against Qatar by the countries which have imposed a siege on the Gulf state, Minister of State for Defence, Khaled...

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  • June 30, 2017

    CIA agent who abducted Egyptian in 2003 to serve her sentence

    A former CIA agent who was convicted by an Italian court in 2009 of abducting an Egyptian imam in Milan intends to return to Italy to serve her sentence...

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  • June 30, 2017

    Foreign medics offer children in Libya lifesaving heart surgery

    A group of foreign doctors has arrived in the war-ravaged Libyan city of Benghazi to carry out heart surgery on around 30 children for the next month. The treatment...

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  • June 30, 2017

    Houthi missile kills 6 Saudi soldiers

    A ballistic missile attack has targeted a Saudi military base inside Saudi Arabia, killing six soldiers, Press TV reported. The missile attack killed six Saudi Arabian soldiers at the...

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