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February 24, 2020

Lebanon reduces flights, blames Iran for coronavirus spread

Lebanon has officially reduced the number of flights to and from coronavirus infected countries, after some blamed Iran for its first case of the virus. Lebanese authorities confirmed the...

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February 24, 2020

Minister: Yemen Houthis arrested government officials

Yemen’s Information Minister Muammar Al-Iryani announced on Saturday that the Houthis have carried out a campaign of arrests against civil servants as well as officers at the interior and...

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February 24, 2020

Fourth prisoner dies of medical negligence in Egypt

Ahmed Abdel Moneim Qandil, 35, has become the fourth person to die in an Egyptian prison this month from medical negligence. Qandil, a social and psychological education specialist with...

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February 24, 2020

Outrage as Ryanair chief exec says Muslim men should be profiled at airports

Ryanair’s chief executive has sparked outrage after saying Muslim men should be profiled at airports because “bombers” will “generally be of a Muslim persuasion”. In an interview with the...

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February 24, 2020

Knesset speaker: Next government will annex West Bank territory

Israel’s Knesset Speaker yesterday vowed that the government will proceed with the annexation of territory in the occupied West Bank, regardless of the election result. According to pro-settler news...

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February 24, 2020

Israel MK: Database of settlement-complicit companies is ‘ethical stain’ on UN

Israeli opposition parliamentarian Yoaz Hendel assailed the United Nations-mandated list of companies complicit in West Bank settlements at an international conference in Vienna, describing the database as an “ethical...

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February 24, 2020

Likud moves ahead of Blue and White in the polls a week before Israel election

The Likud party moved narrowly ahead of the Blue and White opposition list in the polls for the first time, reported Haaretz, a week before Israel’s third election in...

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February 24, 2020

Dozens of Israel settlement 'outposts' connected to electricity grid

The Israeli prime minister’s office yesterday ordered that 12 unauthorised settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank be connected to the state’s power grid, reported the Times of Israel. ...

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February 24, 2020

Jordan bans entry of travellers from Iran, South Korea after coronavirus outbreak

Jordan yesterday banned non-Jordanian travellers from entering the country from Iran and South Korea as a “temporary precautionary measure” after the outbreak of the coronavirus. Government spokesperson, Amjad Adaileh,...

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February 24, 2020

Turkish forces arrest Syrian rebels fleeing from Idlib

The Syrian news agency, SANA, claimed on Sunday that the Turkish army had arrested dozens of rebels as they fled from the fighting in Idlib and headed for Turkey....

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