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A World Redrawn: Re-think gender roles, says Tunisian feminist Bochra Belhaj Hmida
May 28, 2020
TUNIS — During Tunisia's coronavirus lockdown, feminist activist and former lawmaker Bochra Belhaj Hmida has been worrying about family viol ...
Sudan says three jailed members of Bashir’s ousted regime have contracted coronavirus
May 28, 2020
CAPE TOWN — Sudan’s prosecution service on Wednesday announced that three senior members of former Sudanese president Omar Al Bashir’s ouste ...
Lebanon adopts law to lift banking secrecy for officials
May 28, 2020
BEIRUT — Lebanon's parliament on Thursday adopted a law to lift banking secrecy for public officials including over corruption or funding "t ...
Conservative ex-Tehran mayor Ghalibaf elected Iran speaker
May 28, 2020
TEHRAN — Iran's newly formed parliament on Thursday elected former Tehran mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf as its speaker, consolidating the p ...
Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque to reopen on Sunday
May 27, 2020
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem will reopen on Sunday after a two-month closure due to the novel coronavirus, ...
After rare silence, Istanbul's Grand Bazaar prepares to reopen
May 27, 2020
ISTANBUL — An eerie silence has fallen over Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, one of the world's oldest, largest and most visited markets, where a ra ...
78 per cent of Libya's Covid-19 infections are from Tripoli
May 27, 2020
CAPE TOWN — The Libyan National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that 78.1 per cent of the country's Covid-19 infections were from ...
Rouhani urges Iran MPs to 'cooperate' as parliament opens
May 27, 2020
TEHRAN — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged lawmakers to "cooperate" with his government in a speech on Wednesday during the inaugural s ...
Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity reopens
May 27, 2020
BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories — Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, built on the spot where Christians believe Jesus was born, reopened ...
Libya’s coast guard detains hundreds of migrants
May 27, 2020
CAPE TOWN — Libya’s coast guard intercepted 400 Europe-bound migrants off the country’s Mediterranean coast over the past two days, after wh ...
Canada to extend air strikes against Daesh, may go into Syria
Mar 24, 2015
Arab-Israeli political leaders reject Netanyahu’s apology
Mar 24, 2015
US ‘eye in the sky’ aiding Iraq’s Tikrit operation
Mar 24, 2015
Israel’s Netanyahu mired in post-vote crisis with US
Mar 24, 2015
US envoy to Libya signs off Twitter after online abuse
Mar 24, 2015
Syrian rebels launch offensive to take government-held city
Mar 24, 2015
Roadside bomb kills two soldiers in Egypt’s Sinai
Mar 24, 2015
EU set to reimpose sanctions on more Iranian shipping companies
Mar 24, 2015
Tunisia’s PM fires 6 police commanders after attack
Mar 23, 2015
Sultan back in Oman after ‘successful’ treatment — TV
Mar 23, 2015
Egyptian, Emirati developers tout nebulous plan for new capital
Mar 23, 2015
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan sign agreement on Nile dam
Mar 23, 2015
Netanyahu tells Israel’s Arabs he ‘regrets’ election day rallying call
Mar 23, 2015
Syrian regime helicopter crew captured by rebels, 1 killed — monitor
Mar 22, 2015
Morocco says Daesh cell busted, arms seized
Mar 22, 2015
US can prevent Iran developing nuclear bomb — CIA director
Mar 22, 2015
Israel reaches out to France before resumption of Iran nuclear talks
Mar 22, 2015
Third Tunisia museum suspect ‘on the run’
Mar 22, 2015
British medical students missing, feared to have joined Daesh
Mar 22, 2015
US, Iran cite progress in nuke talks, though deal is unclear
Mar 21, 2015
Tunisian took break from travel agent job to shoot tourists
Mar 21, 2015
Over 45,000 Egyptians flee Libya after Daesh beheadings
Mar 21, 2015

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