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Syria: EU conference to raise funds for quake victims 'theatrical'
Mar 21, 2023 08:20Syria has strongly denounced as “theatrical” an international conference in Brussels to purportedly raise funds for the victims of last month's devastating earthquake, stating that the United States and its Western allies would rather lift sanctions on the crisis-hit West Asian country than to organize such sham events.
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Three civilians killed as Saudi forces shell border regions in northwestern Yemen
Mar 18, 2023 13:59At least three people have been killed and several others injured after Saudi border troops fired barrages of artillery rounds at residential neighborhoods in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada, close to the border with the Saudi Arabia.
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UK Home Secretary visits Rwanda as asylum deal remains mired in legal challenges
Mar 18, 2023 13:56British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has traveled to Rwanda to discuss a controversial agreement which will see the UK deport asylum seekers deemed to have arrived illegally in the African nation.
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French police attack Paris protesters as anti-pension bill protests rage
Mar 18, 2023 09:16Police in Paris have tear-gassed protesters and arrested hundreds of them after they took the streets and gathered at Place de la Concorde to voice their anger against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to implement pension reforms without a vote in the lower house of parliament.
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13,000 Iranians martyred by West's chemical arms supplied to Saddam: Gharibabadi
Mar 18, 2023 08:16Human rights official has deplored the European Parliament's resolution over the suspected poisoning of some students in Iranian schools, emphasizing that thousands of Iranians lost their lives as a result of the West's chemical weapons supplied to the deposed Ba'ath regime of Iraq during the imposed war on Iran.
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Palestinians go on strike to mourn victims of Israeli attack on Jenin
Mar 17, 2023 12:42Palestinians in various parts of the occupied West Bank and al-Quds have held a general strike to mourn the victims of the latest Israeli raid into Jenin.
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Ten people charged with murder in death of Black man at US hospital
Mar 17, 2023 09:36After a massive outcry, seven US police officers and three hospital employees have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 28-year-old Black inmate at a state psychiatric hospital last week in Virginia.
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Yemen: Fragile truce ‘may end at any moment’ as Saudi aggression, siege rage
Mar 14, 2023 12:49A senior adviser to the Yemeni Information Ministry says a de facto ceasefire between the country’s fighters and the invading Saudi-led coalition “may end at any moment” due to the continuation of the aggression and siege against the impoverished nation.
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Iran says supports UN efforts to bring peace to war-wracked Yemen
Mar 14, 2023 08:26Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the Islamic Republic supports intra-Yemeni talks to find a political solution to the crisis in the war-wracked Arab country.
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Palestinian resistance groups vow to take revenge for Jenin carnage
Mar 08, 2023 08:28Palestinian resistance movements have denounced the latest deadly raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, vowing to take a harsh revenge after Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians and wounded dozens of others.