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Kuwait executes seven people, including two women, first time since 2017
Nov 17, 2022 04:14Despite appeals from human rights organizations for clemency, Kuwaiti authorities have carried out the death sentence on seven people, including two women, convicted of murder, making it the first executions in the Persian Gulf kingdom since 2017.
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Angry villagers, troops block US military convoy from advancing in Syria's Hasakah
Nov 16, 2022 10:48Local residents of a village in Syria’s northeastern Province of Hasakah in cooperation with government forces prevented a US military convoy from advancing through their villages on Wednesday.
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Saudi Arabia sentences activist to 10 years in prison over tweets, rights groups say
Nov 16, 2022 09:32Human rights organizations says a Saudi pro-democracy activist has received a 10-year jail sentence for writing tweets critical of the government, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against human rights activists and political dissidents widens.
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US ambassador’s bids pose serious threats to our national security, Iraqi legislator says
Nov 16, 2022 09:23An Iraqi lawmaker has lambasted US Ambassador to Baghdad Alina L. Romanowski for her seditious moves and attempts to provoke bitter divisions within the Iraqi society, stressing that her divisive stances are detrimental to the Arab country’s national security and sovereignty.
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Israeli forces to demolish several Palestinian-owned houses in East al-Quds
Nov 16, 2022 09:18Israel appears set to demolish a number of privately-owned Palestinian houses in the occupied East al-Quds neighborhood of al-Tur, amid ongoing land grab policies carried out by the Tel Aviv regime.
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Oil tanker associated with Israeli billionaire struck by drone off Oman coast
Nov 16, 2022 09:13A Liberian-flagged oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck in an exploding drone attack off the coast of Oman, reports say.
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Turkish forces, allied militants shell villages in Syria’s Hasakah: Report
Nov 16, 2022 04:32Turkish military forces allied with Takfiri militants have reportedly shelled residential areas in the countryside of Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, as the threat of a new Turkish military incursion into the neighboring Arab country looms.
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Israel announces bid to upgrade apartheid wall amid West Bank tensions
Nov 16, 2022 04:10Israeli war minister Benny Gantz has approved a plan to build a 100-kilometer wall in the occupied West Bank, as the occupying regime steps up its apartheid policies against Palestinians.
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Saudi Arabia impounds another Yemen-bound fuel ship in act of piracy
Nov 15, 2022 11:42The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) says Saudi Arabia and its coalition has seized yet another Yemen-bound fuel tanker and prevented it from docking at Hudaydah port, in a new act of piracy against the besieged Yemeni people.
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Israeli forces fatally shoot Palestinian youth after alleged stabbing, car-ramming attack
Nov 15, 2022 11:37Israeli forces have shot dead a young Palestinian man in Ariel settlement in the West Bank city of Salfit, after he allegedly killed two settlers in a stabbing and car-ramming attack.