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March 8, 2020

OPEC's pact with Russia falls apart, sending oil into tailspin

A three-year pact between OPEC and Russia ended in acrimony on Friday after Moscow refused to support deeper oil cuts to cope with the outbreak of coronavirus and OPEC...

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March 7, 2020

Gaza schools closed for 2 days for coronavirus

Schools in Gaza are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak ...

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March 7, 2020

UK police to review Dubai ruler abduction allegations

British police will launch a review of the 2000 probe of the disappearance of the ruler of Dubai’s daughter in Cambridge following a court ruling that he abducted and...

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March 7, 2020

MP: Lebanon in 'final hours before' declaring it can't pay its debts

Lebanon is in “the final hours before” formally announcing it cannot pay its debts, senior MP Alain Aoun wrote on Twitter on Saturday, as the president, prime minister and...

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March 7, 2020

UN calls for immediate freeze of military operations in Yemen

UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths today has called for an immediate end to military action by Yemen’s warring parties as renewed violence between the Houthi movement and a Saudi-led...

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March 7, 2020

Owners of Russian plane that crashed in Sinai take Egypt to international court

Kogalymavia and the Prince Group, the owners of the Russian plane, Airbus A231, that crashed in Sinai in 2015, launched a prosecution of Egypt before the International Arbitration Court...

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March 7, 2020

PA security services ‘brutally’ arrest Fatah MP in West Bank

On Friday, Palestinian Authority (PA) security services “brutally and barbarically” arrested Fatah MP Husam Khader from his house in the West Bank city of Nablus, his daughter, Amira Khader,...

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March 7, 2020

Palestine divided over coronavirus counter-measures

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced a state of emergency for 30 days in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as a counter-measure against the spread of...

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March 7, 2020

Coronavirus: Death toll in Iran rises to 145

The death toll in Iran from the coronavirus has climbed to 145, the country’s Health Ministry announced on today, Anadolu Agency reports. As many as 21 more people died...

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March 7, 2020

Hezbollah is holding Lebanon’s economy hostage

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab is set to address the Lebanese people at 4:30pm (GMT) today, only two days before the country’s Eurobonds mature on 9 March. Though the...

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