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Airport in Yemen receives first flight since deadly attack
A plane landed Sunday at the airport in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, officials said, the first commercial flight to arrive since the deadly missile attack last week on the facility that killed at least 25 people and wounded 110…
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Egypt signs 9 new agreements for oil and gas exploration
The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has signed nine new petroleum agreements to search for petroleum and natural gas in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea with six major international and Egyptian companies.
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Algerian ex-president’s brother cleared of conspiracy
An Algerian military court cleared Said Bouteflika, the once-powerful brother of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, of conspiracy charges on Saturday following a retrial, the official APS agency reported.
The once-mighty presidential…
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5 women killed as blast hits Yemen wedding hall
Five women were killed in war-torn Yemen when a projectile exploded at a wedding held on New Year’s Day in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, officials said Saturday.
The government and Houthi militia blamed each other for the Friday…
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US, Gulf allies brace for Iran terror attacks as Tehran vows to avenge Soleimani killing
The US and its Gulf allies have been warned to prepare for Iran-led terror attacks after Tehran ramped up threats of revenge on the eve of the first anniversary of the killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani.
With tensions…
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Car bomb hits near Russian base in northeast Syria
A car bomb detonated near a Russian military base in northeastern Syria on Friday in the first such militant attack in the area against the ally of Damascus, a war monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group…
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Iraq explosives experts working to neutralize mine on oil tanker
Iraqi explosives experts were working on Friday to defuse a large mine discovered on an oil tanker in the Arabian Gulf and evacuate its crew.
It came a day after two private security firms said sailors feared they had found a limpet mine…
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Poster of Iran’s Soleimani sparks controversy in Gaza Strip
A picture of the late Iranian Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani that was posted on a billboard in Gaza City has been vandalized and torn down, days before the first anniversary of his death.
Soleimani was killed in a US drone…
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Yemen government vows to restore stability after deadly attack
The new power-sharing Yemeni government vowed on Thursday to bring stability to the war-torn country, a day after a fatal attack ripped through Aden’s airport targeting cabinet members.
At least 26 people, including three…
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‘Cowardly’ Aden airport attack draws regional, global condemnation
A rocket and gunfire attack on Aden airport in Yemen, targeting the country’s newly formed government and claiming dozens of lives, has drawn global condemnation from political, diplomatic and non-governmental figures.
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