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January 7, 2019

Taliban wants US talks moved from Saudi Arabia to Qatar

Taliban officials said yesterday that the movement will not attend planned peace talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia this month and wants them moved to Qatar. The...

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January 7, 2019

Islamic Development Bank funds school construction in Gaza, West Bank

Palestinian Minister of Education and Higher Education Sabri Saidam yesterday signed a deal with the Islamic Development Bank to build and renovate 11 schools, the Safa News Agency reported....

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January 7, 2019

Rashida Tlaib removes Israel from the map in her congressional office

Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian congresswoman, made a change to the map of her congressional office in Washington, DC, replacing Israel with Palestine. After Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan,...

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January 7, 2019

Saudi women to be told of divorce by text message under new law

Women in Saudi Arabia will be notified by text message if they are divorced under a new law designed to protect them from having their marriage ended without their...

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January 7, 2019

Former US Ambassador to the UN loses 1.67m followers on Twitter

Former US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, announced that she has a new Twitter account after she had to cancel her old professional account as an official in...

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January 7, 2019

92% drop in migrant numbers arriving in Europe

Italy has recorded an 80 per cent drop off immigrants reaching its costs compared to 2017. The number of clandestine immigrants arriving in Europe in 2018 fell by 92...

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January 7, 2019

Egypt's Sisi opens mega-mosque and Middle East's largest cathedral in New Capital

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi attend the formal opening of Al-Fattah Al-Aleem Mosque and The Cathedral of the Nativity in Cairo...

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January 7, 2019

Sudan’s Bashir rejects 'normalisation with Israel'

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has refused a request by Kenya’s national air carrier to fly over Sudan’s airspace on a direct route from Nairobi to the Israeli capital city...

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January 7, 2019

Palestinian Authority pulls employees from Egypt-Gaza crossing

The Palestinian Authority said on Sunday it had ordered its employees to pull out from the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, effectively closing the main exit point from the impoverished Gaza...

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January 7, 2019

Quake hits western Iran, about 75 injured

An earthquake hit an area in western Iran near the Iraqi border on Sunday, injuring 75 people, most of them lightly, the head of the country’s emergency medical services...

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