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Tunisia rights groups say 1,000 arrested in six nights of riots
Jan 22, 2021
TUNIS — Tunisian security forces have arrested at least 1,000 people during six nights of urban unrest between disaffected youths and riot police, human rights and other non-government groups said on Thursday. The North African country, where the Covid-19 pandemic has deepened already acute economic pain, has seen young people hurl rocks and p ...
Lebanon extends total lockdown by two weeks
Jan 22, 2021
BEIRUT —  Lebanon has prolonged a total lockdown by two weeks to stem an unprece ...
Twin suicide blasts in Baghdad leave nearly 30 dead
Jan 22, 2021
BAGHDAD — A rare twin suicide bombing killed nearly 30 people at a crowded market in ...
Egypt says it agreed with Qatar to restore diplomatic ties
Jan 21, 2021
CAIRO — Egypt and Qatar agreed Wednesday to restore diplomatic relations, Egypt's foreign ministry said, after a three-year-long Saudi led f ...
Scattered clashes in Tunisia as more protests expected
Jan 21, 2021
TUNIS — Young Tunisians clashed with security forces overnight and protest organisers called for anti-government rallies Wednesday after fiv ...
Hundreds protest in Yemen  capital against US terrorist label
Jan 20, 2021
SANAA — Hundreds of supporters of Yemen's Houthi rebels took to the streets of the capital Sanaa on Wednesday to protest against the US labe ...
Lebanon returns two stolen 18th-century icons to Greece
Jan 19, 2021
BEIRUT — Lebanon handed back two 18th-century religious icons of Jesus and Mary to Greece on Tuesday after they were seized during an auctio ...
Beyond the oil wells, Syrians rummage in trash to survive
Jan 19, 2021
AL MALIKIYAH, Syria — Plastic bottles, aluminium cans, clothes, sometimes spaghetti. ...
Tunisia seeks to stem wave of nighttime street riots
Jan 19, 2021
TUNIS — Tunisia braced for further protests on Tuesday after hundreds were arrested in four nights of street clashes between riot police and ...
France’s reckoning with colonial past reviewed in Algeria report
Jan 19, 2021
PARIS — A historian tasked by President Emmanuel Macron with assessing how France deals with its colonial past in Algeria — a hugely sensiti ...
Tunisia arrests over 600, deploys troops after riots
Jan 18, 2021
TUNIS — Tunisian authorities said on Monday they had arrested more than 600 people and deployed troops after a third consecutive night of ri ...
Egypt, UAE resume first Qatar flights since 2017
Jan 18, 2021
DOHA — The first direct flights since 2017 between Qatar and its former rivals Egypt and the UAE took to the skies on Monday, following the ...
Yemen clashes near Hodeida kill 150 in a week — military sources
Jan 18, 2021
HODEIDA, Yemen — Some 150 Yemeni pro-government soldiers and Houthi rebels have been killed in a week of fighting south of the strategic por ...

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