Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Facing a potentially hostile US administration, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to break his isolation by mending EU relations, torn by what the bloc views as his bellicose foreign policy. Ties between Ankara and Brussels have plunged to a nadir not...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Three crew members died and three others are missing after a cargo ship sank in bad weather in the Black Sea off Turkey, local officials said Monday. Turkish rescue workers saved six crew members on board the Palau-flagged bulk carrier Arvin despite difficult weather...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Facebook complies with Ankara, agrees to appoint in-country rep Facebook said on Monday it will appoint a representative in Turkey to comply with a new social media law aimed at forcing platforms to quickly remove contentious posts. The US social media giant’s...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
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Monday, January 18, 2021
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Monday, January 18, 2021
The first direct flights since 2017 between Qatar and its former rivals Egypt and the UAE took to the skies on Monday, following the end of a regional crisis. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in cutting ties with Qatar in June...
Monday, January 18, 2021
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Monday, January 18, 2021
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Monday, January 18, 2021
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Monday, January 18, 2021
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Monday, January 18, 2021
Tunisia could lose millions of dollars stashed in Switzerland by the family of ousted dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a senior official said Saturday. The funds are currently frozen by Swiss authorities but a deadline to claw back funds ends midnight on Tuesday and...
Friday, January 15, 2021
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Friday, January 15, 2021
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Friday, January 15, 2021
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he wanted to find a solution to Turkey’s suspension from the F-35 fighter jet programme with the new US administration under Joe Biden. Ties between the two NATO allies have been strained by...
Friday, January 15, 2021
Nigerian authorities have warned on Friday against the circulation of fake coronavirus vaccines in the country, where 10 million real doses of the shots are expected in March. “There are reports of fake vaccines in Nigeria,” the Director General of...
Thursday, January 14, 2021
The death toll from an attack on UN peacekeepers in Mali has risen to four after another soldier died from his wounds, the United Nations said Thursday. A detachment of Ivorian peacekeepers was travelling between Douentza and Timbuktu in the northwest on Wednesday...
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stripped down to a black t-shirt and got vaccinated on Thursday as the nation of 83 million people began rolling out China’s Sinovac jab despite conflicting data about its efficacy. The 66-year-old Turkish leader was...
Thursday, January 14, 2021
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Thursday, January 14, 2021
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Thursday, January 14, 2021
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Thursday, January 14, 2021
Ten years since an uprising toppled Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his in-laws, who ran a mafia-like empire that once pocketed a fifth of national private sector profits, are scattered across the world. Few have faced justice. Here is an overview. Ben Ali...
Thursday, January 14, 2021
By Caroline Nelly Perrrot and Aymen Jamli: Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started, has also been its relative success story — but celebrations will be muted when it marks on Thursday one decade since protesters ousted its autocratic leader. The revolutionary...
Monday, January 11, 2021
Former Algerian premier Ahmed Ouyahia, on trial for corruption, admitted Saturday to receiving gold bars from Gulf donors then selling them on the black market, the official APS news agency reported. Ouyahia and fellow ex-prime minister Abdelmalek Sellal are accused...
Monday, January 11, 2021
As they watched a violent mob smash into the US Capitol, some in Africa could not help but see a little irony in the chaos incited by President Donald Trump, who once famously called African nations “shitholes”. Others across the continent offered...
Friday, January 8, 2021
Torrential rain in Morocco this week after a period of drought has caused at least one death in its economic capital Casablanca, as bad weather remains forecast for the coming days. Authorities said one person was killed and four injured after the roof of a structure...
Friday, January 8, 2021
Tunisia has arrested a suspected branch leader of Al-Qaeda in North Africa, along with several others suspected of planning “terrorist” attacks, a judicial spokesman said Friday. “Two dangerous wanted individuals, one of whom is an Al-Qaeda...
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Human Rights Watch appealed Thursday to Libya’s internationally recognised government to launch an investigation aimed at identifying hundreds of people reported missing in a western town where mass graves have been unearthed. The United Nations voiced...
Thursday, January 7, 2021
The head of Algeria’s foreign intelligence agency General Mohamed Bouzit, known as Youcef was dismissed on Thursday, January 7. Bouzit headed the Directorate of Documentation and External Security (DDSE), an intelligence agency that provided assessment on...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Three Algerian activists awaiting trial in prison were rushed to hospital Tuesday, 10 days after they began a hunger strike protesting their detention, the CNLD prisoners’ rights group said. Mohamed Tadjadit, Noureddine Khimoud and Abdelhak Ben Rahmani began...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
France said on Tuesday it had killed dozens of jihadists in a weekend air strike in central Mali, while several villagers and a local group said up to 20 wedding guests were killed by a helicopter. Social media has been buzzing with rumours since Sunday about events...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Tunisia, the current president of the UN Security Council, called Monday for a resolution sending international monitors to support Libya’s brittle ceasefire to be adopted as soon as possible. “We hope that it will be adopted as soon as possible”...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
A freelance Egyptian journalist who worked for pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and was arrested on false news and terrorism charges is being denied medication in custody, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Aamer Abdelmonem is among at least 27 journalists the...
Monday, January 4, 2021
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Monday, January 4, 2021
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