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November 27, 2020

226 Saudi officials arrested in anti-corruption clampdown

Saudi authorities announced yesterday the arrest of 226 people involved in 158 cases of corruption including money laundering, bribery and fraud within country’s Ministry of Defence totalling some $325...

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November 27, 2020

Journalist Solafa Magdy spends 1 year in Egypt prison

It has been one year since the arrest and detention of the journalist Solafa Magdy, her husband and their friend. On 26 November 2019, Solafa, photojournalist Hussam Al-Sayyad and writer Mohamed Salah...

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November 27, 2020

Israel court upholds eviction of dozens of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday rejected an appeal filed by Palestinian families living in a building in the Batn Al-Hawa neighbourhood in East Jerusalem against two previous court...

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November 27, 2020

Israel’s growing strategic threat to our freedom of speech

There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house. It makes perfect sense, and yet that’s exactly what Western governments...

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November 27, 2020

Egypt rights advocate Hafez Abu Seada dies of coronavirus

Prominent human rights advocate and lawyer Hafez Abu Seada, 55, has died after contracting coronavirus. His wife, also a lawyer and rights advocate, announced his death yesterday: “The love...

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November 27, 2020

Twitter storm calls for safe passage to Europe for refugees

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) launched a Twitter storm on Wednesday to raise awareness of the dangerous journey made by refugees to reach safety in Europe with the...

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November 27, 2020

EU Parliament calls for urgent sanctions on Turkey over Cyprus

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) yesterday voted in favour of a resolution calling on the European Council to impose sanctions against Turkey over its “illegal activities in the...

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November 27, 2020

UN warns of rising number of Syrians suffering from acute food insecurity

The United Nations Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ramesh Rajasingham, warned on Wednesday that the number of Syrians suffering from severe food insecurity has doubled in 2020 compared to last...

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November 27, 2020

FM: Daesh intensifying activities in Iraq

The Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuad Hussein, warned that Daesh has intensified its activities in Iraq in recent months, Russian RIA Novosti news agency reported. The minister told the news...

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November 27, 2020

Israel records over 1,000 covid cases in 1 day

Israel has recorded more than 1,000 positive cases of coronavirus in a single day for the first time in more than a month, the Ministry of Health has said....

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