Fri 20 May 2022: Jordan’s Queen Noor Al-Hussein, wife of the late King Hussein, has called current King Abdullah II’s decision to restrict the communications, place of residence and movement of her son, former crown prince Hamzah, as “truly bizarre”. “Some truly bizarre and stranger than fiction stuff circulating right now,” Queen Noor wrote on […]
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Fri 20 May 2022: The unprecedented figure is the result of new waves of violence and protracted conflict in countries ranging from Ethiopia and Afghanistan to Syria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. People living in internal displacement due to conflicts or natural disasters worldwide reached a record 59.1 million at the end of 2021, up from 55 million a year earlier, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre […]
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Fri 20 May 2022: A new video that begins moments before Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed has emerged showing relative calm and quiet, contrary to claims by Israeli officials that fighting was taking place in the area. Abu Akleh, 51, was killed by an Israeli soldier on May 11, according to colleagues and witnesses […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: The UAE has committed itself to invest $100 billion in India across several sectors, the country’s commerce and industry minister, Piyush Goyal, revealed on Friday. Goyal made the announcement at the India-UAE Economic Partnership Summit in Mumbai. “The commitment from the UAE is to look at over $100bn of investment to […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: Social media footage not verified by Reuters showed at least six people killed and dozens injured over the past few days. Iranian security forces fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in several provinces today, according to posts on social media, as protests triggered by rising food prices […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: An Indian expat has been fired from his job in Qatar and deported following comments he made, that nurses from his home state of Kerala were being sent to Gulf states to become “sex slaves for terrorists”. The man, identified as Sisupalan Durgadas, appeared in a video which surfaced online and […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: A rare £100 Palestine banknote discovered in a charity shop in the UK has sold for £140,000 ($174,000). During the British Mandate of Palestine in 1927, the note was issued to high-ranking officials. Paul Wyman, an Oxfam volunteer, spotted the unusual note in a box of items donated to the charity’s […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: Algerian lawmakers, on Tuesday, submitted a Bill criminalising normalisation with Israel, including articles prohibiting travel or any direct or indirect contact with Tel Aviv, Anadolu News Agency reports. Youssef Ajesa, a lawmaker from the Movement of Society for Peace, told Anadolu Agency that he “lodged on behalf of his party’s group of deputies (65 out […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: The families of detainees in Syria’s prison network are still having to resort to paying large sums of money to secure their release, despite the regime of Bashar Al-Assad issuing a wide-ranging amnesty earlier this month and guaranteeing the release of thousands of detainees. According to the Turkish news outlet, Anadolu Agency, […]
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Tue 17 May 2022: Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has announced that it is launching a coffee company in an effort to promote Saudi coffee beans globally and develop its national industry. In a statement by the PIF, the Saudi Coffee Company is set to boost and support the Kingdom’s […]
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