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Iraqis expect little of first poll since defeat of Daesh
Iraq holds its first parliamentary election on Saturday since defeating Daesh, but few people expect its new leaders to deliver the stability and economic prosperity that have long been promised. The oil producer has been struggling to find a formula for stability since a US-led invasion toppled dictator Saddam Hussein...
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Netanyahu: What happens next?
Benjamin Netanyahu is the dominant Israeli politician of his generation. On the domestic and international stage, no rival comes close to the veteran Likud Party leader known widely as “Bibi”, Reuters reports. Israeli police on Tuesday recommended that the 68-year-old, four-term prime minister be indicted for bribery in two cases. It...
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Jordan imprisons women in name of family honour
An estimated 65 per cent of more than 1,700 female inmates in Jordan’s prisons are held under the 60-year-old law that allows the authorities to indefinitely incarcerate women considered to be at risk of being attacked or killed in the name of family honour...