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October 15, 2021

Sudan calls for ‘new political inclusion’ during transition period

Sudan’s Sovereign Council chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, yesterday called for the inclusion of “new political factions” in the county’s transitional government. Speaking in his meeting with the ambassadors and...

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October 15, 2021

Israel stops hundreds of Jews from moving to Iran as asylum seekers

Israeli authorities have stopped dozens of Jewish families of the Lev Tahor ultra-Orthodox sect from fleeing to Iran where they had applied for asylum. “Israel and the US are working to...

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October 15, 2021

Iran warns Israel over rising threats to nuclear program

Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi warned of Israel’s growing threats against his country’s nuclear programme, reiterating that the threats should be condemned...

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October 15, 2021

Empty gestures or substantive change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and its discontents

The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if...

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October 15, 2021

Hamas welcomes UNESCO pro- Palestine resolutions

Hamas yesterday welcomed two resolutions adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in favour of Palestine at the 212th session of its executive board held in...

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October 15, 2021

Italy suspends trial of Egypt officers charged with torture, murder of student

A Rome judge yesterday suspended the trial of four senior members of the Egyptian security services citing concerns that there was no certainty they had been formally made aware that they were charged...

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October 15, 2021

War crimes, invasion and the Human Rights Council

On Thursday 7 October, I received a call from the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Middle East office seeking more assistance to alleviate the...

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October 15, 2021

US gives Lebanon’s army $67m in additional support

The United States will offer $67 million in additional support to the Lebanese army, bringing Washington’s total support in 2021 to $187 million, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland...

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October 15, 2021

US Congress committee says Tunisia democracy in ‘danger’

Democracy in Tunisia is in danger following a series of executive orders issued by President Kais Saied, the Congress Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism said yesterday....

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October 15, 2021

Tunisia’s Ennahda rejects forming 'de facto government'

Tunisia’s Ennahda movement yesterday slammed what it called a “de facto government led by Bouden.” In an official statement, the movement said that the formation of the Bouden government...

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