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June 30, 2020

Lebanon diplomat elected as vice president of UN General Assembly

Lebanese diplomat, Amal Mudallali, has been elected as one of the vice presidents of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in a vote yesterday, the National reports. Mudallali is Lebanon’s top...

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June 30, 2020

US embassy in Sudan calls for peaceful protests

The US Embassy in Khartoum urged demonstrators participating in today’s mass protests to commit to peace. This came in a statement posted on Facebook on the eve of calls...

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June 30, 2020

Rare Timurid-era Quran sells for over $8m at UK auction

A rare 15th century Quran from Iran written on Chinese paper has sold at an auction in London by Christie’s for $8.6 million (£7,016,250) almost 12 times more than its...

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June 30, 2020

Macron accuses Turkey of ‘criminal’ role in Libya

French President Emmanuel Macron has accused Turkey of “criminal responsibility” in the conflict in Libya. This is another round in France’s criticism of Ankara’s support for Libya’s Government of...

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June 30, 2020

‘Sisi did not consider Sirte a red line when ISIS occupied it’, ex-US envoy says

Former US Ambassador to Libya, Deborah Jones, expressed her surprise at the statements of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Sirte after he warned that he considered the town...

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June 30, 2020

Syrian boy raped and tortured in Lebanon

Three Lebanese youths, one of them the son of a senior Hezbollah official, filmed their torture and rape of a 13-year-old Syrian boy in Sohmor, a small town in...

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June 30, 2020

IOM: 100,000 displaced in Yemen in 2020 due to fighting, COVID-19

Some 100,000 people have been displaced in war-torn Yemen since the beginning of the year due to heavy fighting and the coronavirus pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...

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June 30, 2020

UN hopes Syria conference will raise $10bn

The United Nations yesterday urged international donors to double their financial pledges to support Syrian refugees and countries which shelter them in the region in an effort to reach...

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June 30, 2020

Tearing down the idols of colonialism: Why Tunisia, Africa must demand French apology

The visit by newly-elected Tunisian President Kais Saied to France on June 22 was intended to discuss bilateral relations, trade, etc. But it was also a missed opportunity, where...

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June 30, 2020

Iran insists that air strikes in northern Iraq coincided ‘by chance’ with Turkey’s

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the country’s air strikes in northern Iraq coincided with Turkish strikes “perhaps by chance”, Al-Quds Al-Araby has reported. “Combatting terror is...

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