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February 22, 2021

Assassination attempt on Libya interior minister, MP says

Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha said he escaped a “well-planned” assassination attempt yesterday in which gunmen fired on his motorcade in the capital Tripoli, though an armed force that...

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February 22, 2021

Fatah hails Abbas decree on public freedoms

The Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee, Jibril Rajoub, has hailed Mahmoud Abbas’s decree on public freedoms. Speaking to Palestine Radio, Rajoub said that the decree is a “strategic...

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February 22, 2021

Gaza Strip: refugees protest against UNRWA decision to downsize food coupons

Dozens of Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip staged a protest on Sunday against the recent decision by UNRWA to downsize food coupons, Anadolu has reported. Organised by a...

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February 22, 2021

Israel sceptical about Abbas’s election intentions

Israeli security and military institutions are sceptical about the seriousness of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas regarding presidential and parliamentary elections, Quds Press reported on Sunday. It quoted Israeli...

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February 22, 2021

Wife of Egypt colonel appeals to Sisi to release him

Rasha Safwat, wife of Colonel Ahmed Konsowa, who announced his plan to run for presidency in 2017, has appealed to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release her husband...

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February 22, 2021

Raed Salah held in solitary confinement by Israel, says lawyer

The head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, has been held in solitary confinement since he was jailed by Israel on 15 August last year, Arabi21.com...

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February 22, 2021

UAE to buy 500 Russia helicopters for its police

Russia and the UAE have completed a deal that will see the Emirates’ Tawazun company buy a 50 per cent stake in Russian helicopter manufacturer VR-Technologies, RT reported yesterday. VR-Technologies...

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February 22, 2021

Palestinians are sceptical about Abbas’s decree on public freedoms

Earlier this month, the Palestinians factions agreed that Palestinian Authority, PLO and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas must issue a decree to order the easing of public freedoms in the...

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February 22, 2021

Iran FM slams West, IAEA hypocrisy over Israel’s expanding nuclear site

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday accused Western leaders and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of hypocrisy for targeting the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, while ignoring...

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February 22, 2021

China has a long history of discrimination against the Uyghurs, but the world has a role to play

The Xinjiang autonomous region in China is facing the worst kind of cultural and ethnic genocide by Beijing. There is a long history of dissonance between the indigenous ethnic...

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