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January 9, 2020

Algeria president forms committee to amend constitution

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune yesterday setup a panel of experts to amend the constitution giving more powers to the parliament and consolidating the judiciary’s independence. The Algerian presidency announced...

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January 9, 2020

UNRWA fires 17 teachers from its schools in Lebanon

UNRWA has sacked 17 teachers from its schools in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Safa news agency reported yesterday. According to the human rights group, Shahed, UNRWA claimed...

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January 9, 2020

Report: Israel carried out 760 violations against Palestinian journalists in 2019

Israeli occupation forces committed 760 violations and crimes against Palestinian journalists in 2019, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) has said. In a report issued by the Freedoms Committee, the...

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January 9, 2020

Bennett: Israel is working to apply sovereignty to all of Area C

Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday that “Area C” of the occupied West Bank belongs to Israel, Anadolu reported. “I solemnly declare that Area C belongs to Israel,”...

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January 9, 2020

US envoy: Next plan is to let Israel annex West Bank

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said yesterday that America’s next step, after recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, is the annexation...

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January 9, 2020

Kuwait's foreign reserve rises to historic record

The foreign reserve in Kuwait increased by 3.9 per cent reaching 12.254 billion Kuwaiti dinars ($40.5 billion) during November 2019 compared to from 11.794 billion Kuwaiti dinars ($39 billion)...

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January 9, 2020

Four Turkish soldiers killed in northeast Syria bomb attack

Four Turkish soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack in northeast Syria on Wednesday, the Turkish Defence Ministry said in a statement overnight, Reuters reports. It said the...

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January 9, 2020

UK calls on Israel to stop settlements expansion 'immediately'

The United Kingdom (UK) yesterday called in Israel to “immediately” halt illegal settlements’ expansion in the occupied West Bank. In an official statement, the British consulate in Jerusalem stressed...

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January 9, 2020

At UN, US justifies killing Iranian commander as self-defense

The United States told the United Nations on Wednesday that the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani last week was self-defence and vowed to take additional action “as necessary”...

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January 9, 2020

US, Iran both appear to signal desire to avoid further conflict

President Donald Trump tempered days of angry rhetoric and suggested Iran was "standing down"...

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