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January 25, 2021

Biden appoints Palestinian-American as senior intelligence director

US President Joe Biden has appointed Palestinian-American Maher Bitar as the senior director for intelligence programmes at the National Security Council (NSC), Politico newspaper reported. Bitar served as general counsel to...

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January 25, 2021

UN: Decade of war deprives over half of Syrian children of education

Over half of children in Syria remain deprived of an education due to a decade of the ongoing civil war, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed. There are...

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January 25, 2021

Turkish ship hijacked in Gulf of Guinea

A Turkish cargo ship with 19 crew on board has been hijacked in the Gulf of Guinea, Anadolu has reported. At least one crew member was killed in the...

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January 25, 2021

US oil firm operating in ‘murky’ Syria oil business

“Pioneering” American entrepreneurs have waded into the “murky” oil business in Syria, according to a report by the Financial Times which investigated the US oil firm Delta Crescent Energy (DCE). The...

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January 25, 2021

Is the pandemic an opportunity to shift from oil to greener energy?

It is crucial to an understanding of the global consequences of the coronavirus pandemic to consider the transition to alternative energy sources for the benefit of future generations. Covid-19...

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January 25, 2021

Egypt sentences 23 Muslim Brotherhood members to 5 years in prison

Egypt’s court of cassation yesterday sentenced 23 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to five years in prison and acquitted five others. According to Youm7, the Egyptian public prosecutor convicted...

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January 25, 2021

Egypt imposes curfew ahead of revolution anniversary

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Saturday issued a ministerial order imposing a partial curfew in some areas in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. “A curfew will be...

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January 25, 2021

Iraq: 11 PMF militants killed in Daesh clashes

Eleven members of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have been killed during violent clashes with Daesh, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported yesterday. Violent confrontations broke out on Saturday between the PMF...

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January 25, 2021

Filipina workers ‘trafficked from UAE to Syria, abused and assaulted’

Filipina workers and maids have been trafficked from the United Arab Emirates to Syria where they have been subjected to assault, rape, abuse and the withholding of their wages,...

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January 25, 2021

Israel officially opens embassy in the UAE

Israel officially opened its embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...

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