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March 21, 2020

Iraq parties form committee to reject Al-Zurfi appointment

Iraqi political sources revealed on Thursday that Shia blocs have agreed to form a committee to inform President Barham Salih of their rejection of the appointment of Adnan Al-Zurfi...

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March 20, 2020

Tunisia orders lockdown, postpones loan repayments for poor

Tunisia’s president on Friday ordered a general lockdown, limiting citizens’ free movement in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, reports Reuters. The North African country, which...

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March 20, 2020

Trump, Pompeo walk to brink of blaming Iran for rocket attack

US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday came close to blaming Iran for a rocket attack in Iraq last week in which two American...

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March 20, 2020

Iran, France to swap Iranian engineer, French academic

Iran and France have agreed to swap a French academic held on security charges and an Iranian detained by Paris over violations of US sanctions against Tehran, Iranian state...

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March 20, 2020

Sudan confirms second coronavirus case, Khartoum bans mass gatherings

Sudan confirmed its second case of coronavirus on Friday in the capital Khartoum, as Khartoum state announced a range of measures to prevent the spread of the disease. The...

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March 20, 2020

Khamenei lauds Iranians' 'dazzling' sacrifices to fight virus

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a speech on state television for the Persian New Year, praised Iranians for their “dazzling” sacrifices in fighting the coronavirus outbreak in...

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March 20, 2020

Algerians forego weekly protest amid coronavirus

Algerian protesters heeded a presidential order over the coronavirus, and the pleas of some of their own leaders, by not staging their weekly demonstration against the ruling elite on...

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March 20, 2020

US to send senior official to Saudi Arabia for months to help stabilise oil markets

The United States believes Saudi Arabia’s flooding of oil markets compounds the coronavirus-caused global economic crash and intends to send a senior official to Riyadh for months to boost...

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March 20, 2020

Bahrain prime minister returns from medical treatment in Germany

Bahrain’s Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa returned to the kingdom after medical treatment in Germany, the state news agency BNA said on Friday. The agency said...

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March 20, 2020

Coronavirus proves we need a global response to improve human rights

The coronavirus pandemic has presented a serious test to how different societies and countries can work together to tackle an unprecedented force. Many governments and individuals have grappled the...

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