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February 12, 2021

Saudi’s women empowerment drive is ‘a lie’, says family of released activist

The family of the Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul yesterday condemned Saudi Arabia’s drive to expand female empowerment, a day after authorities released her from prison. According to CNN, the activist’s...

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February 12, 2021

China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II

Kelly A. Hammond’s book China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II is published at a time when Islam in China is under intense scrutiny with...

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February 12, 2021

New US envoy meets Yemen president in Saudi

The United States’ new special envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, met Yemen’s internationally-recognised president and his foreign minister in Riyadh yesterday, amid a flurry of diplomatic activity by the...

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February 12, 2021

Palestinian talks in Cairo failed to consider the occupation

Everyone wishes to see an end to the Palestinian division and to the political rift which have been ongoing for a decade and a half. But the end of...

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February 12, 2021

Oman content with current Israel relationship, FM says

Oman is satisfied with its current relationship with Israel, the foreign minister said yesterday, Reuters reported. “As regards Israel we are content so far with the level of our current relations...

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February 12, 2021

Turkey will remain in Libya until gov't says we are not needed, official says

Turkish troops stationed in Libya will remain there as long as a bilateral military agreement between Ankara and Tripoli is active and Libya’s government requests it, Reuters reported presidential spokesman Ibrahim...

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February 12, 2021

Europe will redefine itself despite the political shift in the US

Despite the long-awaited political change in Washington, with Democratic President Joe Biden now safely in the White House, Europe is unlikely to resume its previously unhindered reliance on its...

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February 12, 2021

Russia equipping Syria air base to receive nuclear bombers

Russia has been developing the Hmeimim Air Base in Latakia in western Syria in preparation for it to receive strategic nuclear bombers as part of plans to strengthen the...

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February 12, 2021

7 countries meet in Greece to discuss Mediterranean gas, Gulf states take part

The foreign ministers of seven countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Greece and Cyprus) are scheduled to meet for a summit termed the “Friendship...

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February 12, 2021

Yemen: Al-Qaeda leader denies arrest in videotaped speech

Khalid Batarfi, the Yemen-based leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), recently appeared in a videotaped recording a week after the United Nations (UN) announced that he was...

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