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January 11, 2021

UAE FM expresses willingness to normalise ties with Turkey

The United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash has expressed his country’s desire to normalise and re-establish relations with Turkey, following tensions between the two. Gargash made the remarks in an interview...

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January 11, 2021

Saudi’s MBS leads drive to lure multinationals to Riyadh from Dubai

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is spearheading a campaign to lure multinationals to relocate from Dubai to Riyadh in an ambitious plan that could anger the kingdom’s smaller...

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January 11, 2021

Lebanon currency dollar peg ‘finished’: central bank governor

Lebanon’s central bank governor said the dollar peg is “finished” in an interview with France24 last week. Riad Salameh, 70, who has headed Lebanon’s central bank since 1993, told the French...

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January 11, 2021

Israel: Former minister says democracy in state ‘more fragile’ than US

Former Israeli Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn said on Friday that democracy in Israel is “more fragile” than in the US, despite the chaos in Washington last week, local media...

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January 11, 2021

Egypt: Senior health ministry official dies from coronavirus

Undersecretary of Egypt’s Ministry of Health in Qalyubia Governorate has died from coronavirus two weeks after he contracted the virus. Hamdy El-Tabbakh died on Saturday evening at Agouza Hospital....

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January 11, 2021

Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions

Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions by Oludamini Ogunnaike is a sweeping and ambitious book that operates on multiple levels with...

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January 11, 2021

Egypt collects $383,691 worth of fines in one week from mask violators

Egypt has collected six million Egyptian pounds ($383,691) worth of fines in one week from people found not to be wearing a face mask, reports the state-run Al-Ahram. Over 125,000...

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January 11, 2021

Rafsanjani’s daughter: Iran’s intervention in Syria left 500,000 dead

Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, the daughter of the late Iranian president has criticised her country’s intervention in Syria, saying it left 500,000 Syrians dead. In an interview with the Iranian Ensaf...

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January 11, 2021

Iraq facing water crisis if deal with Turkey not reached, official warns

Iraq’s Water Resources Minister Mehdi Rashid Al-Hamdani yesterday warned that his country would face a water crisis if it does not reach a deal with Turkey, the New Khaleej reported. Al-Hamdani stressed on...

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January 11, 2021

Houthis threaten to attack ‘sensitive’ sites in Israel

Yemen’s Houthis have threatened to attack “very sensitive” sites in Israel, Rai Al-Youm reported yesterday, after reports emerged that the occupation state was reenforcing its military in the south of the...

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