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June 30, 2020

Tunisia stops 23 migrants reaching Europe

Tunisian authorities yesterday thwarted an attempt by migrants to enter Europe, the country’s news agency TAP quoted local sources as saying It added that the Maritime Guard Units in Tunisia’s...

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June 30, 2020

Scepticism as Egypt’s cafes and restaurants open for business

Egypt has opened its cafes and restaurants as authorities move to reopen the country after three months with new guidelines. Venues check customers’ temperatures and ask them to sanitise...

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June 29, 2020

Turkish coastguard rescues 35 migrants from half-sunken boat

Turkey’s coastguard said on Monday it had rescued 35 migrants and was searching for four more missing from a boat found half sunken in the Aegean Sea. The Turkish...

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June 29, 2020

Saudi, US officials call for extending UN arms embargo on Iran

Saudi and US officials on Monday urged the global community to extend a UN arms embargo on Iran, saying that failing to do so would allow Tehran to further...

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June 29, 2020

Turkey, Austria trade barbs over Kurdish-Turkish clashes in Vienna

Austria and Turkey accused each other on Monday of responding inappropriately to clashes between Kurdish and Turkish protesters in Vienna last week, further straining already tense relations. The violence...

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June 29, 2020

Israel's Netanyahu and Gantz at odds over West Bank annexation moves

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main coalition partner, Benny Gantz, signalled his opposition on Monday to advance the plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians...

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June 29, 2020

Turkey to extend coronavirus wage supports by a month

Turkey will extend a wage support system for one month to continue offsetting fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. Speaking after...

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June 29, 2020

Second Lebanese IMF negotiator quits ministry post

A senior member of Lebanon’s negotiating team with the IMF resigned as finance ministry director-general on Monday, saying vested interests were undermining the government’s economic recovery plan. Alain Bifani,...

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June 29, 2020

Ahmed Erekat was executed with the blessing of Abbas and the Oslo people

Ahmed Erekat was not the first Palestinian to be killed by the Israeli occupation forces in cold blood, nor will he be the last to be killed “because he...

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June 29, 2020

The contextualization of racism and discrimination in the Gulf

The latest Black Lives Matter protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd on 25 May by a Minneapolis police officer highlight the fact that we live in a...

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