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January 8, 2020

EgyptAir suspends flights to Baghdad following Iran missile strike on US base

EgyptAir has announced it will suspend flights to Baghdad for three days due to the instable security situation in Iraq. The Ministry of Civil Aviation has said the decision...

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January 8, 2020

Libya forces: Retreat from Sirte was tactical

Forces affiliated with the internationally recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) yesterday targeted the Libyan National Army (LNA), affiliated with retired Major General Khalifa Haftar, in the outskirts...

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January 8, 2020

Egypt delegation in Ethiopia for last of 4 Renaissance Dam meetings

An Egyptian delegation is in Addis Ababa to attend the last of four technical meetings on operating and filling the Renaissance Dam after months of tension between Egypt and...

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January 8, 2020

Israel centre-left parties discuss election merger

Two Israeli centre-left opposition parties, Labor and Meretz, are “expected to discuss the possibility of running together in the upcoming Knesset election”, reported Haaretz, citing “sources familiar with talks...

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January 8, 2020

Israel: banks freeze accounts of prisoners’ families

Banks in Israel have frozen the accounts of the families of 40 Palestinian prisoners who are Israeli citizens, Shehab news agency reported on Tuesday. The move was apparently ordered...

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January 8, 2020

Israel confiscates sole medical vehicle serving 1,500 Palestinians

Israeli occupation forces have confiscated the only vehicle available to a medical team serving the needs of some 1,500 Palestinians in an isolated region of the southern West Bank,...

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January 8, 2020

Israel's Supreme Court dismisses petition against settlement built on private Palestinian land

Israel’s highest court yesterday dismissed a petition brought by Palestinian landowners, thus effectively greenlighting the state’s master plan for a major settlement in the occupied West Bank. As reported...

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January 8, 2020

Air France suspends air travel to Iran, Iraq

French flag carrier Air France on Wednesday suspended travel over Iraqi and Iranian airspace, Anadolu Agency reports. The action comes in light of Iran’s ballistic missile strikes on at...

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January 8, 2020

Israel: court rejects petition to end administrative detention of hunger striker

The military court in Israel’s Ofer Prison has rejected a petition filed on behalf of Palestinian hunger striker Ahmed Zahran to end his administrative detention, the Palestinian Information Centre...

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January 8, 2020

Major sporting events in Saudi Arabia ‘sportwash’ the dire human rights situation

The Paris-Dakar Rally, inaugurated in 1978 and now known as The Dakar Rally, or simply The Dakar, was originally staged from Paris to Senegal in West Africa. After being...

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