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December 14th, 2020

US Sanctions Iranian Officials for Alleged Role in Ex-FBI Agent's Disappearance Afghan Airstrikes Killed 11 Civilians in Kandahar
Australia Says It Will Pursue All Avenues on China Coal Ban Reports UN Chief Proposes New Envoys to Mediate Libya, Mideast
US Sanctions Turkey Over Russian Missile Defense System Iraqi Forces Arrest Five Kurdish Journalists in Kirkuk
India's Armed Forces to Stock Weapons, Ammunition to Plan for 15-Day Intense War ICC Prosecutor Rejects Uighur Genocide Complaint Against China
Kashmiris Outraged as Authorities Fell Thousands of Apple Trees South Sudan's Spy Agency Abuses Prisoners, Says Rights Group
Package-Tour Diplomacy: Thousands of Israeli Tourists Flock to Dubai After Peace Deal EU and China Set for Further Investment Talks as End-Of-Year Deadline for Deal Looms
China and Japan Defense Chiefs Discuss East China Sea Tensions Venezuela Wields a Powerful 'Hate' Law to Silence Maduro's Remaining Foes
US Removes Sudan From State Sponsor of Terror List Turkey Condemns US Sanctions, Says Could Retaliate
UN Agency Says More Than 400,000 Flee Mozambique Militant Attacks Russia Had Nothing to Do With Suspected US Treasury Email Snooping, Says Kremlin
South Korea Passes Law to Ban Anti-North Korea Leaflets Amid Activists' Outcry Spain's Top Court Orders Retrial of Basque Separatist
PM Declines to Be Questioned in Beirut Blast Probe, Official Source Says Lebanon's Aoun, Hariri Trade Blame Over New Government
Russia Successfully Test Launches Heavy Lift Space Rocket After Long Hiatus Boys Escaped Through Forest After Gunmen Abducted Their Friends at Nigeria School
Ethiopia's War-Scarred Tigray Region Regains Some Services Hamas Calls for Unity, Resistance Against Israel on Occasion of 33 Years of Creation
Imam of Farah Mosque Killed by 'Taliban': Officials Residents Claim Civilian Casualties in Kandahar Airstrike
Voted-Out Caretakers Remain at Posts in Afghanistan Despite Criticism Qatar Executes an Incredible 'Elephant Walk' Showcasing Its Growing Air Combat Might
Journalists Worldwide End Up in Jail for Reporting on Coronavirus Crisis Armenia-Azerbaijan Prisoner Swap Begins
No Armed Drones for the German Army - for Now Attorney General William Barr Resigns, Effective Dec. 23
Opportunities Vanish for Gaza's Businesswomen ISIS Sleeper Cell Attacks in Syria Reach Record Low, Data Shows
Study: Arrests of Journalists Skyrocketed in the US This Year Lebanon Jails Activist for 'Collaborating' With Israel
Moroccan Police Disperse Protest Against Normalization Deal With Israel Kuwait Forms Cabinet With New Oil, Finance Ministers
Turkey to Test First Indigenous Helicopter Engine Army Suspends Battalion Commander, Sergeant Major in Korea Amid Racism Allegations
Iran Says It Would Rejoin Nuclear Deal Within an Hour of US Doing So Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara Sworn in for Disputed Third Term
Fighting Intensifies Between Peshmerga and PKK in Northern Iraq US Removes Sudan's Designation as State Sponsor of Terrorism
Saudi Arabia: Explosive Boat Hits Oil Tanker Off Jeddah Turkey, Ukraine Seeking Broader Space Cooperation
Newt Gingrich and Loyalists Tapped for Defense Policy Board as Henry Kissinger Is Ousted Report Estimates Chinese Nuclear Stockpile at 350 Warheads
Iran: 'Strategic Document' With Kabul 'Nearly Finalized' Documents Reveal Negotiators' Demands for Talks Agenda
Govt Institutions Provide Conflicting Reports on Kabul Attack '10 Security Force Members Killed' in Kunduz: Local Official
Ghani Says Next Round of Talks Should Held in Afghanistan Knesset to Hold Initial Vote on Legalization of 65 West Bank Outposts
In Call to Bahraini King, Rivlin Hails Normalization Deal as 'Model' for Region Rouhani Claims Israel Killed Nuke Scientist 'To Wage Instability and War'
Knesset Committee Chairman Confirms Israel in Talks With Hamas on Prisoner Swap Amazon Said Weighing Shipping Goods to Israel From UAE
Norwegian Diplomat Tapped as UN's New Middle East Peace Envoy Trump's Iran Envoy: It's a Mistake to Believe Iranian Officials Are Replaceable
Gingrich, Other Trump Loyalists Named to Pentagon Advisory Panel Jewish Settlers Escalate Attacks Against Palestinians in West Bank
Biden Weighs Samantha Power for USAID Erdogan Attracts Iran's Rancour Over Nationalist Azerbaijani Poem
Loujain Al-Hathloul: Saudi Arabia Uses Tweets Supporting Women's Rights as Evidence US Sanctions Iran Officials Over Ex-FBI Agent's Disappearance
US Imposes Sanctions Against Turkey Over Russian S-400 Missile System Shackled and Bedbound: How Israel Treats Hospitalised Palestinian Prisoners
Taiwan Says on Track to Apply to Join Trans-Pacific Trade Pact India, Pakistan Repeat War of Words Over 'Cross-Border Terrorism'
ICC Prosecutor Slams 'Wholly Unacceptable' US Sanctions Hamas Says Ready to Resume Palestinian Unity Talks
Boko Haram Claims Attack in Niger That Killed Dozens Azerbaijan Arrests Soldiers Suspected of War Crimes
TikTok Back in Court Amid Ongoing Fight With Trump Administration Iran Revives Contentious Anti-Money Laundering Legislation
'Terrorist Attack' Strikes Oil Tanker at Saudi Port in Jeddah Ethiopia's Tigray War: a Doctor's Account of Mekelle's Plight
Iran's Rouhani: No Conditions or Negotiations on Nuclear Deal Over 300 Students Still Missing After Nigeria School Attack
Turkey Detains 11 Over Abduction of Iranian Dissident: Police Iran's Missile Program Is Non-Negotiable, Says Rouhani
South Korea Passes Law to Ban Anti-North Korea Leaflets Amid Activists' Outcry Pompeo Says US Condemns 'Unjust, Barbaric' Execution of Iranian Journalist
Rouhani Says Iran Can Move Beyond Row With Turkey Over Erdogan Poem No Iran Deal Without Freeing Detained US Citizens, US Official Says
Lebanon's Aoun, Hariri Trade Blame Over New Government Iran's Rouhani Defends Execution of Dissident Journalist
Turkey's Erdogan Says Upset US Went Ahead With Sanctions Process Explosives-Laden Boat Hits Fuel Ship at Saudi Port, Ministry Says
Trump Repeats Threat to Veto NDAA, Says the Bill Is a Gift to China GOP Lawmaker: 'Trump Is Listening to the Many of Us Urging Him To #pardonsnowden'

December 13th, 2020

Yemen Reports 12 Houthis Killed in Dhale Province Over 50 Killed in Surge of Iraqi Violence
Iraq Daily Roundup: 53 Killed; Anti-ISIS Operation Near Mosul Yemen Separatists Start Withdrawing From Aden in Power-Sharing Deal
Afghan Negotiators Declare First Round of Talks Over, Announce 23-Day Break US Navy Submarine Fleet to Be Overtaken by China Before 2030
Iran Sends Ship to Load Venezuela Oil in Defiance of Sanctions Ramstein Air Base in Germany Experiences Potential Incoming Missile Scare

December 12th, 2020

The US Sends Egypt Billions in Aid. Fearing 'Extinction,' Rights Activists Hope Biden Will Act.
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