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January 3, 2021

Algeria frees former spy chief jailed during mass protests

An Algerian military appeals court on Saturday acquitted three top officials who were jailed in 2019 during mass protests, Reuters reported quoting sources close to the officials. The three...

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January 3, 2021

UAE reports record COVID-19 cases for 4 consecutive days

The United Arab Emirates has recorded its fourth straight record number of daily coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, reporting 1,963 cases on Saturday according to a report by...

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January 3, 2021

Turkey bans Britons after detecting cases of coronavirus variant in travellers from UK

Turkey has banned Britons from entering the country after detecting 15 cases of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus in travellers from Britain, the government said...

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January 3, 2021

Iran tells IAEA it plans to enrich uranium to up to 20% at Fordow site

Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it plans to enrich uranium to up to 20% purity, a level it achieved before its 2015 accord, at its Fordow...

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January 3, 2021

Saudi-led coalition strikes at Yemen capital after attacks on Aden blamed on Houthis

Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck targets in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday, hours before the end of the year, in retaliation for attacks in the southern port city of...

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January 3, 2021

Iran's foreign minister: 'Israel planning to attack US forces to spark Iran war'

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged US President Donald Trump on Saturday not to be “trapped” by an alleged Israeli plan to provoke a war through attacks on...

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January 3, 2021

Iraqis mark year since Soleimani killing with anti-US slogans

Soleimani, leader of an elite overseas unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was killed on 3 January 2020...

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January 3, 2021

Somalia's al Shabaab says behind Turkish company attack, four dead

A car bomb targeting workers of a Turkish company killed four people including one Turkish citizen on Saturday in Somalia, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said, according to a Reuters report....

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January 3, 2021

Libyans start using new exchange rate

The Central Bank of Libya on Sunday introduced a new unified exchange rate agreed last month after years of division between rival branches based on opposing sides of the...

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January 2, 2021

Will the efforts to thwart Gulf reconciliation succeed?

The Bahraini provocations in Qatar, in the form of breaching sea and air borders, came with an Emirati incitement to thwart Gulf reconciliation – or Saudi-Qatari reconciliation to be...

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