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Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a news conference in Tehran, Iran June 21, 2021.
Hardline cleric Raisi to be sworn in as Iran’s president

Originally posted to the Reuters website, 5 August 2021 DUBAI, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Hardline [...]

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A soldier guards Tunis’s sealed-off parliament on 31 July.
A coup or not? Tunisian activists grapple with president’s powergrab

Originally posted to The Guardian website on 5 August 2021 While Saied’s shutdown of parliament [...]

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Aug
An Israeli fighter jet. Several incidents leading up to this week’s rocket fire from Lebanon have focused attention on Israel’s northern border.
Israel launches airstrikes in Lebanon in response to rockets

Originally posted to The Guardian website, 5 August 2021 Israel escalated its response to rocket [...]

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Aug
A Palestinian man passes under a banner with picture and name of slain Mohammed al-Alami, 12 and reads "Palestinian National Liberation movement, Fatah, offers her hero martyr child," infant of the family house, in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, near Hebron, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021
Palestinian dad expects no justice for son killed by Israel

Originally posted to The Associated Press website, 5 August 2021 BEIT UMMAR, WEST BANK (AP) [...]

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Foreign workers wait with their belongings before boarding police buses transferring them to a deportation centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 14 November 2013
Saudi Arabia to deport 800,000 Yemen workers, say sources

Originally posted to The Middle East Monitor website, 5 August 2021 Leaks about the Saudi [...]

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Aug
Al Jazeera journalist arrested at Cairo airport

Originally posted to The Middle East Monitor website, 4 August 2021 An Al Jazeera journalist has been [...]

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