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January 3, 2017

Egypt: Judge commits suicide in jail after corruption charges

Senior Egyptian judge Wael Shalabi has committed suicide a day after police arrested him on corruption charges. The Middle East News Agency said the secretary-general of Egypt’s State Council...

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January 3, 2017

Deputy leader of Libya's UN-backed government resigns

A deputy leader of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) announced his resignation on Monday, saying the UN-backed administration had failed to tackle urgent problems arising from years of...

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January 3, 2017

US-led strikes in Iraq, Syria have killed at least 188 civilians -US military

At least 188 civilians have been killed in US-led strikes against Daesh targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the US military said in a...

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January 3, 2017

Tunisian engineer, allegedly assassinated by Israel, was developing remote-controlled submarines

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Tunisian engineer Mohammed Al-Zawari, who was killed last December, was working on developing remote-controlled submarines that were to target Israeli oil and...

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January 3, 2017

Daesh kills 24 with Baghdad car bomb, attack police stations in Samarra

Monday's blast in Sadr City hit a busy square where day labourers typically gather....

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January 3, 2017

Syrian opposition groups say they froze talks on Russian-backed peace conference due to ceasefire violations

Syrian opposition groups said on Monday they had decided to freeze any talks about their possible participation in Syrian peace negotiations being prepared by Moscow in Kazakhstan unless the...

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January 3, 2017

A blessing in disguise? The Trump presidency may be better for Palestine

Israel is dizzy. January 20th has been like another Christmas Day and Donald Trump is jolly old Santa Claus bearing gifts. The writing is already on the wall as...

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January 3, 2017

Recapturing Mosul is 'a matter of weeks not years', insists Hollande

He vowed to continue supporting Iraq in its fight against Daesh militant group....

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January 3, 2017

Tunisian rowing team during a sunset practice

Tunisian rowing team exercise on Lake of Tunis...

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January 3, 2017

Iran: No preconditions for attending Astana Syria talks

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bahram Qassemi said on Monday that Iran will attend the upcoming Syrian crisis resolution talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana “without any preconditions”, Iran’s...

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