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September 24, 2021

Saudi Arabia releases prominent rights advocate after 15 years in prison

Saudi authorities yesterday released human rights defender, Abdul Rahman Al-Shamiri, after detaining him for 15 years . The rights organisation ALQST and the Prisoners of Conscience Twitter account quoted...

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September 24, 2021

France: government taken to court over arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE

Civil society organisations yesterday filed a lawsuit at the Administrative Court of Paris against the French government’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. A joint statement by...

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September 24, 2021

Half of global casualties from cluster bomb were in Syria in 2020, report reveals

Over half of all worldwide casualties caused by cluster bombs in 2020 were in Syria, a new report has revealed. According to the publication released by the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC)...

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September 24, 2021

Two jailed Azeri rights activists begin hunger strike in Iran

Two Azeri Iranian rights activists who have been detained by Iran yesterday began a hunger strike to protest the lack of education in the Turkish language and discrimination in...

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September 24, 2021

Lebanon: president meets maritime border negotiation team

Lebanese President Michel Aoun met at the presidential palace east of Beirut yesterday with his country’s delegation to the indirect maritime border demarcation talks with Israel. The team is...

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September 24, 2021

Jordan: minister says Syria crisis can only be resolved with US-Russian dialogue

Jordan’s foreign minister has said that the Syrian crisis can only be resolved through exclusively US-Russian dialogue, alongside a collective Arab role. “Russia has a major role in any...

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September 24, 2021

Turkey president: US is sending weapons to terrorist groups in Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that the United States has begun transferring weapons and ammunition to terrorist organisations in Syria, stressing that his country will not stand...

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September 24, 2021

US: We are open to talks with Iran, but not forever

The window is still open to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal but won’t be forever, a senior US official said yesterday, saying Iran has yet to name a negotiator,...

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September 24, 2021

Europe wants a school curriculum for Israel to occupy Palestinian minds as well as land

Israel’s Ynet news website has claimed that discussions have taken place in the European Parliament about freezing funding for education programmes in the occupied Palestinian territories, because pupils are...

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September 24, 2021

Tunisia’s Ghannouchi calls for peaceful struggle against ‘absolute autocracy’

Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament and leader of Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, yesterday called on the Tunisian people to engage in a “peaceful struggle” against “autocracy”, local media reported....

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