• Killing of Islamic State expert in Baghdad marks critical moment for Iraq
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Hisham al-Hashimi backed action to tackle Iraq’s powerful militias, despite knowing risks As Hisham al-Hashimi pulled up outside his Baghdad home on Monday night, a gunman strode purposefully towards the Iraqi official’s white four-wheel...
  • Jailed Iranian Dissident Hit with 2nd Conviction for Peaceful Prison Protests
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East - Voice of America
    Undated image of Iranian rights activist Atena Daemi, who has been serving a seven-year term at Tehran's Evin prison since 2016. Daemi’s father says Tehran court convicted her for staging a prison sit-in to mourn Iranians slain in Nov. 2019 anti-government protests
  • Canadian Justice Grinds Slowly for Detained Huawei Executive
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East - Voice of America
    While Meng Wanzhou sits out the process in her Vancouver mansions, two Canadians remain jailed in China
  • Explosion near Iran’s capital kills two, damages factory - IRNA
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from JPost.com - Middle East
    A large explosion was reportedly heard in areas south of Tehran and in the Kahrizak area.
  • Darfur protesters call for action to end attacks on civilians by armed militias
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    The peaceful sit-in taking place in Nertiti county is demanding an end to the violence and punishment for the perpetrators Thousands of people have joined a sit-down protest in front of local authority buildings in Central Darfur...
  • Shopkeeper faces £8k fine after drinking carrot juice from a beer can in 'no alcohol zone'
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Amid New Surge In Virus Cases, Israel's Top Public Health Official Resigns
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from NPR Topics: Middle East
    Israeli security forces control access to a neighborhood that has been isolated following an increase in coronavirus cases in the southern coastal city of Ashdod last week. Siegal Sadetzki said Tuesday that Israeli leaders ignored her warnings and the country reopened too fast. "The compass handling the pandemic lost its direction," she said in her resignation letter.
  • Saudi Arabia denies reports it froze expats’ bank accounts
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from
    Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) yesterday denied reports that banks intended to freeze the accounts of expatriate workers whose financial transactions exceed their wages. “There is no truth in the reports that have been...
  • U.S. Killing Of Iran's Gen. Soleimani 'Was Unlawful,' U.N. Expert Says
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from NPR Topics: Middle East
    The U.S. killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a targeted drone strike in Baghdad. A U.N. investigator says the action violated Iraq President Trump said the U.S. targeted Iran's Qassem Soleimani because of an imminent threat. A U.N. investigator says the U.S. has produced no evidence to back that up.
  • 'Peace and love': Ringo Starr celebrates 80th birthday with famous friends and a salute to BLM
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Russia Charges Former Journalist with Treason 
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East - Voice of America
    Ivan Safronov, a former journalist who works as an aide to the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, detained on suspicion… Main security agency claims Ivan Safronov sold secrets to West  
  • Palestinian Authority police arrest top anti-corruption activist
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from JPost.com - Middle East
    Fayez Sweiti is a resident of Hebron who describes himself as “a Palestinian activist against financial, administrative and political corruption in Palestinian institutions.”
  • Tyrant Vs. Tycoon: Syrian President Starts A Public Fight With Billionaire Cousin
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from NPR Topics: Middle East
    The Syrian government, which faces the collapse of the country's economy, has started a public fight with President Bashar al-Assad's cousin, who is said to be the wealthiest businessman in Syria.
  • 180 bodies found in 'killing field' in Burkina Faso, rights group reports
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Jerusalem church leaders: Israel threating Christian presence in the city
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from
    As many as 13 church leaders in the occupied city of Jerusalem yesterday warned that the Israeli court’s decision concerning the Greek Orthodox Church’s property at Jaffa Gate threatens the Christian presence in the holy...
  • Mexican President Visits US With Focus on Trade
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East - Voice of America
    Trip is the first outside Mexico for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
  • Coronavirus world round-up: Australia to slow return of its citizens from abroad amid fresh lockdown
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Libya's NOC says oil blockade to halve oil output in coming years
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from
    The Libyan oil and Haftar - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor] Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Tuesday that a forced shutdown in production since January was expected to result in output dropping to 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2022 from about 1.2 million bpd achieved at the...
  • UN: US assassination of Iran's Qasem Soleimani ‘unlawful’
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from
    United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Agnès Calamar, found the assassination of Iranian Commander Qasem Soleimani to be “unlawful”, Arab48 reported today. Early this year, a US...
  • The war for humanitarian aid to Syria seeks to empower Damascus
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from JPost.com - Middle East
    The US, a world superpower, has not gone to bat for its partners in eastern Syria on the aid issue.
  • Op-Ed: Mexico's president and Trump have this in common: They both trample human rights
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
    Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Donald Trump, who meet face to face for the first time Wednesday, have parallel — and dismal — records on human rights.
  • Saudi Arabia lays out restriction for hajj, introduces bottled holy water
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from JPost.com - Middle East
    Saudi Arabia's coronavirus infections passed 200,000 on Monday, as the number of new cases continue to climb following the fully lifted curfew last month.
  • Morocco Parliament calls on Amnesty to apologise
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from
    The Moroccan parliament yesterday criticised Amnesty International and called on the rights group to apologise and provide evidence of allegations officials spied on journalists in the country using Israeli software. Several...
  • Yemeni Military Says Houthis Sustained Losses in Air Raid by Saudi-led Coalition on Sanaa
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Sputnik International
    CAIRO (Sputnik) – The Shia Houthi rebels have suffered significant losses in an airstrike launched by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen’s Houthi-held central province of Sanaa, the press service of the Yemeni Armed Forces said.
  • Risk of IVF babies being born with cerebral palsy halves due to decline in twins, study reveals
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Turkey opposition party calls on Iraq PM to appoint Turkmen minister
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from
    The head of the Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, yesterday called on the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, to appoint a Turkmen minister in his cabinet. In a letter sent to Al-Kadhimi,...
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    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Malka Leifer appeals extradition to Australia to face sexual abuse charges
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Lawyers for the former Australian school principal launch an appeal in the Jerusalem high court Lawyers for the former Australian school principal Malka Leifer , who is wanted on more than 74 charges of sexually abusing students, have...
  • Thermometers in hand, Dubai opens for tourists amid pandemic
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
  • Protesters storm Serbian Parliament in response to reintroduction of lockdown leaving 23 arrested 
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • US Smuggles 27 Truckloads of Military Equipment, Supplies Into Syria Through Iraq, Report Says
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Sputnik International
    The US beefed up its presence in oil and gas-rich northeastern Syria in October 2019, after Turkey launched an abortive invasion of the Arab Republic’s Kurdish-controlled northern territories. After that, the US moved troops away from...
  • Dutch police discover criminal gang's 'torture chamber' during drugs raid
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Latest travel news: Portugal and UK in renewed discussions over travel corridor
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Israel's Public Health Chief Resigns Amid Surge in New COVID-19 Cases
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Sputnik International
    TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - The Israeli Health Ministry's director for public health services Siegal Sadetzki announced on Tuesday she would step down over criticism of the government's way of handling the coronavirus outbreak amid a sharp...
  • Israel Frets Over Security Risks From US Rule Change Allowing High-Resolution Satellite Photos
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Sputnik International
    The Israeli government is trying to stop commercial satellite photography companies from disseminating high-resolution images of the country over fears Hezbollah or Hamas could use them to more accurately plot attacks.
  • Russia, China veto UN approval of aid deliveries to Syria from Turkey
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from JPost.com - Middle East
    The remaining 13 council members voted in favor of the resolution drafted by Germany and Belgium.
  • Egypt charges student with sex crimes in case that stoked debate
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from
    Egypt’s public prosecutor has charged a university student with indecent assault of at least three women, including one who was a minor at the time, in a case prompted by a social media campaign that opened up a rare public debate...
  • What is coronavirus, how did it start and how big could it get?
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Tunisia: Widow of engineer ‘killed by Israel’ disappointed after not being naturalized
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from
    Magda Saleh, widow of the late engineer Mohammed Al-Zawari, expressed disappointment that her name was not included in a list of foreigners who were granted Tunisian citizenship by a presidential decree. Saleh, who holds Syrian...
  • Brazilian President Bolsonaro taking hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Middle East news
  • How do coronavirus home antibody tests work, and how do I get one?
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Dumpster diving, blackouts and suicides. Lebanon's woes laid bare as crisis deepens
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from CNN.com - WORLD/Middle East
    As Lebanon entered a Covid-induced lockdown earlier this year, the destruction of the middle class remained largely out of sight, but now there's no escaping the dystopian scenes of desperation.
  • Egypt receives 4,000 visitors in first week of July
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from
    Egypt’s tourist hot spots along the Red Sea have reported receiving over 4,000 tourists in the first week of July. The government restarted international flights on 1 July after halting air traffic for three months as part of measures to...
  • Hillingdon Hospital closes due to coronavirus outbreak
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from Middle East news
  • Israeli authorities crack down on Arab fishermen
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from
    The Israeli authorities in Yafa (Jaffa) are continuing to crack down on Arab fishermen in order to stop them from working, Arab48.com reported on Tuesday. A number of Arab fishermen, all of them Israeli citizens, reported to the media...
  • Syria conflict: 'Flagrant' war crimes committed in Idlib battle, UN says
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from BBC News - Middle East
    Syrian civilians endured "unfathomable suffering" at the hands of troops and jihadists, the UN says.
  • Why the joint statement matters: Jordan, Egypt close ranks on annexation?
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from JPost.com - Middle East
    The closing of ranks between Egypt and Jordan, the two countries that share borders and peace with Israel, is important.
  • Terminally ill Hamas terrorist dies in Israeli prison
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from JPost.com - Middle East
    Hamas stated that the terrorist's death "crossed red lines."
  • Killing of Security Analyst Seen as Message to Iraqi Government
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from NYT > Middle East
    The analyst, Hisham al-Hashimi, was a proponent of government efforts to rein in the Islamic State and Iraq’s Shiite militias. Suspicion fell on both groups.
  • Israel pushes back creation of sovereign wealth fund as gas revenue trickles in
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from
    Israel has pushed back the creation of a sovereign wealth fund because tax revenue from natural gas has not yet hit the minimum needed to begin investing, and fund managers have not yet been chosen, Bank of Israel Deputy Governor Andrew...
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