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Italy's Carabinieri police said they have arrested an Italian woman who is married to a Daesh fighter in Syria and returned her to the European country, local wire service ANSA reported....
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The President of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, has given his full backing to the federal government's fight against the attacks on foreign missions and interests in Iraq,...
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Interviews
September 28, 2020
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Elif Selin Calik
Turkey's 21st-century geopolitical strategy is called the Blue Homeland. It is the brainchild of retired Rear Admiral Cem Gurdeniz, who talked to MEMO about Turkey's eastern Mediterranean policy, which...
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Italian authorities handed over a historical inscription that dates to the ancient Lycian era to the Turkish foreign mission after decades of judicial wrangling about ownership, the Turkish envoy...
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Libyan renegade General Khalifa Haftar has reportedly refused to release 18 Italian fishermen until Italy frees four Libyan footballers convicted of human trafficking. According to local reports, Haftar asked...
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The Libyan government denied what was published by Arab and international media about an expected meeting between the head of the Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sarraj, and renegade General Khalifa...
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The UN migration agency has said that at least 24 people have drowned or are dead in the sea off the coast of Libya. A boat carrying refugees on...
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A group of migrants who had been blocked aboard a tanker in the Mediterranean for more than a month were allowed to land in Sicily on Saturday after Italy...
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Egypt bought three times more weapons, ammunition, spare parts and military software from Italy last year compared with 2018, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed has reported. According to an official document, this...
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Italy's prime minister said on Tuesday it was time for Lebanon to rebuild trust between its people and institutions, joining France's call for change in a nation devastated by...
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Street artist Banksy has bought a rescue boat to save refugees in distress trying to get to Europe from north Africa. The white boat, named Louise Michel, is adorned...
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The Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Ersin Tatar, yesterday condemned the joint military manoeuvres between the Greek administration of Southern Cyprus, Greece, France and Italy...
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Italy will send medical aid to Iraq as the country continues to struggle to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, Iraq's ambassador to Rome announced yesterday. "Italy –...
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Over 80% of the migrants reaching Italy left from Tunisia and Libya, the data showed, with Tunisia's crisis stoking the numbers attempting the treacherous crossing
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Article
August 14, 2020
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Amelia Smith
On 4 August 2020, 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut Port, sending a mushroom cloud above the city, and lighting a touch paper at one end of...
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Italy has contributed €6.8 million ($8.2 million) to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in support of its core programmes...
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Flavio Insinna, host of the popular Italian TV show "L'Eredità" will have to deliver this statement next time he goes on the air: "International law does not recognize Jerusalem...
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After Tuesday's blasts in Lebanon's capital Beirut, offers of assistance have been pouring in from across the world, with France, Germany, Canada, Bangladesh, Israel, Russia, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait and...
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The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum yesterday announced the discovery of a natural gas reservoir in the Nile Delta area with an estimated production of 32 million cubic feet per...
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Some 80 Tunisian migrants have arrived on Italy's southern island of Lampedusa, Italian security sources reported yesterday. The sources told the local AKI newspaper that the first eight immigrants...
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The leaders of France, Germany and Italy on Saturday threatened for the first time to use sanctions against countries that continued to violate a United Nations arms embargo on...
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The closure of Libyan oil ports and measures to remove mines planted by warlord Khalifa Haftar's forces dominated discussions between Libya's prime minister and Italy's foreign minister on Thursday, Anadolu...
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The world's largest drug haul of amphetamine pills, which was seized by Italian police last week, has been revealed to have been packaged and shipped by Syrian businessmen tied...
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An Italian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has accused the Algerian government of "suppressing" the indigenous Amazigh community in the Kabylie region following the passing of two laws...
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The family of an Italian researcher who was tortured to death in Egypt in 2016 have called on their government to recall its ambassador from Cairo saying that this...
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Italian police have seized the largest ever shipment of amphetamines, believed to have been smuggled by the terror group Daesh based in Syria. The seizure of around 84 million...
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Patrick Zaki's detention renewal session has been postponed until 12 July, according to the Freedom Twitter account which advocates the rights of Egyptian political prisoners. His family has not...
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Algeria's state-owned oil company, Sonatrach, yesterday announced that it had signed a contract with the Italian company Eni to market the production of three gas fields in the south-east...
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Two Turkish energy companies signed an agreement for the development and construction of a solar power plant in Italy, Anadolu Agency reported today. Turkish companies Naturel Enerji and KURTEKS Tekstil Enerji...
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Turkey has the right to intervene if a ship under its protection is attacked in the Mediterranean Sea, said a Turkish expert, Anadolu reports. As tensions heighten in the...
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Italy's Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini stressed on the importance and necessity of Italy maintaining a presence in Libya. During a meeting of the Foreign and Defence Committees in the...
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Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio yesterday visited Tripoli to meet with representatives of Libya's internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA). Di Maio held talks with the GNA's Prime...