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November 19, 2021

Iraq announces initiative to contain election results crisis

Iraqi President Barham Salih yesterday met with Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi and the head of the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Faiq Zaidan, to discuss an initiative to contain the...

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November 19, 2021

Turkey releases Syrian singer

Syrian musician Omar Souleyman was released from custody in Turkey today, his manager and a local security source said, two days after he was detained for alleged links to...

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November 19, 2021

UN holds Israel liable for damages in 2006 oil slick in Lebanon

The UN General Assembly yesterday adopted a resolution acknowledging that $856.4 million in damage was caused by an oil slick in 2006 and calling for Israel to assume responsibility by...

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November 19, 2021

PM accuses Belgium of planning to seize $15bn of Libya’s assets

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh on Wednesday accused Belgium of seeking to seize €14 billion euros ($15 billion) in Libyan assets frozen by the United Nations since 2011, AFP reported...

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November 19, 2021

UN vote affirms Palestinian sovereignty over their natural resources

Some 157 UN member states yesterday voted in favor of a resolution affirming Palestinian sovereignty over their natural resources. Seven countries – Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia,...

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November 19, 2021

On normalising relations with Bashar

The visit of the Emirati foreign minister to Damascus opened the door wide open to analysis and speculation. While the media consider this visit a recognition by the “coalition...

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November 19, 2021

UK to designate Hamas a terror group to 'combat anti-Semitism'

The UK will designate Hamas a terror organisation, making support for it in the country punishable by up to ten years in jail, the Guardian has reported. Under plans due to...

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November 19, 2021

'People will be harmed' as Lebanon cuts medicine subsidies

Christine, a 28-year-old nurse in the Lebanese army, used to spend about a quarter of her salary on life-saving medication for her parents who both have severe heart conditions,...

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November 19, 2021

UN Rights Chief condemns killings of peaceful protesters in Sudan

The UN’s Human Rights Chief, on Thursday, condemned the killing of at least 39 people by Sudanese security forces since the 25 October military coup in the country, and...

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November 18, 2021

Libya: Confused elections

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Khalifa Haftar are running for the presidential elections scheduled for 24 December, and the controversy that followed added nothing else to the very complex scene...

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