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Month: July 2021

Strong Arab presence at Venice Film Festival

1 year ago
The Venice International Film Festival unveiled a starry lineup of world premieres for September, including three films from the Arab world. “Amira” by Mohamed Diab is set to play in the Horizons section and is a coming-of-age drama shot in Jordan, but set in Palestine. “Costa Brava” is Lebanese director Mounia Akl's debut work and […]
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Jordan lends support to Greece, Cyprus in face of Turkey

1 year ago
Greece, Cyprus and regional ally Jordan on Wednesday called for a “comprehensive and viable settlement of the Cyprus problem” after Turkey said it would reopen a former resort in the disputed north of the island. Leaders of the three countries, speaking at a summit in Athens, were responding to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s announcement […]
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Austria wants no more EU-Turkish military cooperation

1 year ago
Austria has rejected a formal request by Turkey to join a powerful EU security and defense cooperation program. Ankara’s May bid to be included in the bloc’s Permanent Structured Cooperation Framework (PESCO) was given the cold shoulder by Vienna over its concerns about Turkish backsliding on democratic values and ties with Brussels. PESCO covers 46 […]
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Palestinians, Israelis cross with UN Security Council

1 year ago
The Security Council faced criticism from both the Israeli and Palestinian envoys to the UN on Wednesday.Israel’s ambassador to the US and the UN, Gilad Erdan, slammed council members for spending time discussing the situation in East Jerusalem. Instead, he said, Iran and the crises it is provoking in the region, in places such as […]
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US embassy almost hit by Iraqi rocket fire

1 year ago
Two rockets were fired early Thursday against Baghdad's fortified Green Zone which houses the US embassy, without causing any casualties or damage, an Iraqi security source told AFP. The dawn attack came as Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi was flying home from Washington after White House talks in which President Joe Biden announced an end to […]
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Iran blames 'cowardly' US for latest setback in nuclear talks

1 year ago
Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday declared Tehran would not accept Washington's "stubborn" demands in talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal and said the United States had failed to guarantee that it would never abandon the pact again. "The Americans acted completely cowardly and maliciously," state TV quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying. "They once […]
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US Treasury targets Syrian officials for torture offenses

1 year ago
The US Treasury Department on Wednesday announced a new list of sanctions targeting individuals and organizations linked to human rights abuses and the killing of civilians during the civil war in Syria. They include Syrian nationals, parts of the country’s military intelligence services, and two armed rebel groups. US government officials from the State and […]
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Forest fires spread in crisis-ridden Lebanon

1 year ago
Raging wildfires have burned large swathes of Lebanon’s pine forests in the mountainous north of the country, killing at least one firefighter and forcing some residents to flee, the National News Agency said on Wednesday. The country’s fire brigade and army are trying to control the fires fueled by strong winds in villages in the […]
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Qatar wants cooler heads to prevail in Tunis crisis

1 year ago
Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani appealed to all parties in the current political crisis in Tunisia to adopt a path of dialogue in a phone call with Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday, the emir's office said. The emir also stressed "the importance of fixing foundations of the state of institutions and establishing […]
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Facebook backs down over discrimination against Palestinian activists

1 year ago
Facebook has restored the account of a Palestinian user the social networking company had temporarily blocked over the posting of a letter written by a jailed activist. Omar Nazzal had shared online a poignant letter penned by Palestinian politician Khalida Jarrar after she was barred by Israel from attending her daughter Suha’s funeral. Written from […]
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Iran-backed militias happy US is ending military missions in Iraq

1 year ago
Several powerful pro-Iran groups in Iraq on Tuesday welcomed an announcement by Washington that US combat operations in the country will end this year, an outcome they have long demanded. US President Joe Biden declared on Monday that “we’re not going to be, at the end of the year, in a combat mission,” as he […]
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Social media app fingered for coup plot in Turkey

1 year ago
Turkish authorities are seeking up to 15 years in prison for the licence holder of ByLock, an encrypted messaging app Ankara says was used by the group it blames for an attempted military coup in 2016, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday. Ankara has cracked down on the network of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based […]
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Social media giants form anti-terror body, target rightwing databases

1 year ago
A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest US tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters. Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter […]
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Fitch improves its evaluation of Saudi Aramco

1 year ago
Fitch Ratings, the leading global credit rating agency, has revised its Saudi Aramco outlook to stable from negative while affirming the company’s long-term issuer default rating (IDR) at ‘A.’ The revision of the outlook on Saudi Aramco’s IDR is driven by a similar action on the sovereign, the rating agency said in its new report published on […]
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60-year old Iran prosecutor charged with war crimes in Stockholm, Sweden

1 year ago
A former Iranian prosecutor was charged on Tuesday with war crimes and murder over the execution of more than 100 political prisoners in Iran in 1988. Hamid Noury, 60, has been under arrest in Sweden since 2019, when he was detained at Stockholm airport as he arrived to visit relatives. Human rights groups have been […]
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