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Middle East Correspondent @thetimes

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@SameralAtrush
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Now that’s how to prepare a plate of hummus
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This is cruelty
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Meet my new hero: Foreign Minister of Comoros Mohamed El Amine. He fell asleep in the Arab summit, woke up to give a speech, then went back to sleep. Excellent time management and rose to the occasion.
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Visionary
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Elon Musk
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@PPathole Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April
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Exclusive: A Russian Pantsir air defence missile system captured on a Libyan battlefield was flown intact to a US air base in Germany in a covert mission, The Times has learnt.
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Libyan militia leader freshly returned from exile in the UAE with Dolce Gabbana sweatshirt, and matching man purse and shoes, is the uniquely Libyan content I live for
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Short thread here on Dmitry Utkin, the commander of the Russian Wagner mercenary force. A picture of this distinguished gentleman appeared on line showing he sports Nazi tattoos.
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This is quality content
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Quality cat content
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Horrifying cctv footage of air strike that targeted cadets at Tripoli's military academy
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How to enforce social distancing with a helicopter: in Tunisia, authorities used a helicopter to unceremoniously end a football match that violated a countrywide lockdown.
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Looks like a Houthi Quds Missile may have landed in southern Jordan yesterday. That means that while targeting Israel, the Houthis have successfully managed to bomb only Egypt and Jordan…
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Exclusive: After years in hiding, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi is poised to go public imminently as he considers running in elections this December, having conducted outreach to diplomats and journalists
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"One day I will be free." "Fuck life." Graffiti in the bombed migrant detention center in Tajoura, Libya that killed dozens of migrants.
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Cats are highly evolved predators
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The gist here: a highly repressive and murderous regime that once sheltered Bin Ladin is overthrown in a democratic uprising. US: great but you're still sanctioned till you give the president a foreign policy victory.
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U.S. push for Sudan to recognize Israel falters — and puts Khartoum in a tight spot
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In possibly my worst dining experience yet in Egypt, was smacked hard on the head by a flying RAT that a waiter had KICKED
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I find it hilarious when a media report refers to an ISIS commander as "elusive." Are there ISIS commanders who keep office hours at a known address?
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“You are about to see the largest aerial campaign in Libyan history in the coming hours,” LNA's Jaroushi said in a statement GNA security chief Bashagha said a number of MiG 29s and SU24S reached Haftar from Russian countrolled Syria base. via @bpolitics
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A scene I see everyday but still find breathtaking. Evening falls over Marsa, Tunisia
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Mohamed Fahmy and his wonderful wonderful wife Marwa after his release outside his old highshool http://t.co/5qKdkIkSG0
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One Taliban commander in the central province of Ghazni said the government forces' collapse started as soon as U.S. forces started withdrawing "as they didn't have any ideology except fleecing the Americans."
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First tweet by Alaa Abdel Fattah, pivotal Arab Spring activistin Egypt, after five years imprisonment: I am the poison, I am the antidote I am the medicine, I am the sickness I am the ghost of a spring past
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Alaa Abd El Fattah
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أنا السم أنا الترياق أنا الدواء انا أصل الداء أنا شبح الربيع اللي فات
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A Western mercenary team linked to UAE registered companies deployed to Libya last summer to assist Haftar, planning everything from maritime interdictions and helicopter backing to a targeting cell. Within days, they fled to Malta, a UN document says.
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EXCLUSIVE ON @business : Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has accepted a ceasefire and a political initiative that will be formally announced today in Cairo to end the war. The political initiative is the one floated by Aguileh Saleh to reform the presidential council
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Guess who I ran into in Maadi after police randomly dropped them off outside a highschool http://t.co/nmqg6AGMyp
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Now the bats have also retained a crisis management and PR firm
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Exclusive details: In 2019 a Turkish drone strike killed Emirati officers in Libya. The UAE then tried to move in an American Patriot battery to Libya, drawing a rebuke from the US. Russia’s Wagner mercenaries calls the shots in fight for Libya
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I'd never thought I'd see the day when Arabic media is flashing breaking news about an American president demanding an end to counting ballots in an election
@AlHadath
ا لـحـدث
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#الولايات_المتحدة — ترامب مغردا: أوقفوا عد الأصوات
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Red Hot Chili Peppers at the pyramids. Great ending. Started off with Flea saying: "Asalamu alaikum. We're really fucking honoured to be here." ❤
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Deleted but will live forever
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Just off the bat, a spokesman for the litiguous Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of Wagner, denies Prigozhin's links to Wagner or Utkin and said my questions prompted a 10 minute Prigozhin rant.
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Now that's out of the way, the notorious Wagner group is in fact thought to be named after Utkin's military codename...Wagner--an affectation by the former special forces commander who has a penchant for white supremacist ideology
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That Utkin has these tattoos comes as no surprise--his inclinations were already known, and those also of many of his fighters. In Libya, Wagner mercenaries left behind Nazi and white supremacist scrawlings in buildings they occupied.
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EXCLUSIVE @business : Libya's GNA interior minister Fathi Bashagha says forces intend to retake Sirte, Juffra and will not allow for Russian bases there. Bashagha says political talks with east to begin after Sirte and Juffra taken, suggests no advances after that
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"We called this meeting to inform you that we want some of your grilled chicken."
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Exclusive: the United States blocked an attempt by the United Arab Emirates to move a Patriot missile battery to Libya after a Turkish drone strike killed UAE officers there
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Meanwhile, in a very sad corner on Twitter...
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Libyans cheering a rescue dog that helped find dozens of people under the rubble, and has been of more utility all things considered than their leadership which just blamed God for the disaster.
@almasartvlibya
تلفزيون المسار - Almasar TV
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هتافات في #درنة دعماً للكلب ايڤار الذي انقذ عشرات الضحايا من تحت الركام
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If you believe both LNA and GNA media, the rival forces have advanced so much they've entirely missed each other and ended up in different countries, possibly continents.
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This glorious cat turned up with its scalp missing at The Kitchen restaurant in Marsa and after a year of eating steaks has morphed into a teddy beat cc @thecatreviewer
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Like in many other parts of the world, especially Europe and North America, far right leanings among some members of the armed forces are common in Russia as well. But the type espoused by Utkin remains anathema in a country where millions died fighting Nazis
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"You're very special."
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There’s a big difference between warning of a specific attack and warning that a situation has become dangerous and will likely explode if not addressed. I gather Egypt gave the latter warning to Israel, not the former.
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Turkish warships are screwed if they come within 10 meters of that LNA missile launcher on shore
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(speaking of the far right in Russia, Navalny, for example, holds racist views that would have him ostracised from public life in the West)
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That’s nice. In libya his Wagner buddies liked to deface mosques and scrawl white supremacist graffiti inside them
@Sprinterfactory
S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y
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Russian General Sergei Surovikin reads the Holy Quran during a visit to the Abdelhamid Ibn Badis Mosque in Algeria.
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Levantines need to get over the fact that Egyptians make better moloukhiya and falafel.
@MKalousian
Madonna Kalousian 🦉🍉🥄
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On Mloukhie: Stop mashing up your mloukhie leaves into liquid green sludge! It’s not a soup and it’s not meant to look like one. This 👌 This is nasty 👇
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وزارة الداخلية الليبة لحكومة الوفاق تلقي القبض على الجناة الذين ظهروا في فيديو و هم يسيؤون لعمال مصريين في مصراتة بعد احجتازهم
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Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj is planning to announce his resignation soon to stay in on a caretaker capacity through talks in Geneva scheduled for next month, officials say via @bpolitics
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The one in Russian says: "I see mosques in Russia, but it's better to see them burn in hell". It was scrawled on the walls of a mosque in a Tripoli suburb. 14/88 means ""We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" and Heil Hitler.
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Chadian president Deby has been killed, according to state tv. What started off a week ago as a small incursion from Libya by Chadian rebels and tribe members has ended with this.
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Trump, according to public readouts: Erdogan: I'm invading the Libyan oil crescent. Trump: 👍 Two days later. Sisi: We will resist. Sirte will not fall. We have a ceasefire proposal. Trump: 👍
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20,000 shares. How facebook connect's conspiracy theorists and the gullible.
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France banned pro Palestinian protests in Paris, so Tunisians apparently decided to hold a pro Palestinian protest in front of the Fremch embassy
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Incredibly, a Hamas official was citing this report. The disinformation actually feeds into the assessments and calculus or a warring side.
@glcarlstrom
Gregg Carlstrom
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Not only have there been zero reports of this—Israel hasn't had a channel 10 since 2019
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So now we know "Baghdadi is dead" meant "Baghdadi gained weight, dyed his beard and has a fancy new custom AK. And follows current affairs."
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Entering Red Hot Chili Peppers concert at Cairo Pyramids. Police officer asks: "you have no flags?" Asked what type of flags responds: "flag for the gays. Not allowed."
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With reports that Yemeni mercenaries might be joining the Libya fray
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Seriously who did this?
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Sisi: "look I'm just saying, I really don't think you can take Tripoli in 48 hours"
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International relations in 2020
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Job interview: so you captained a ship? How was that? Captain: I singlehandedly jacked up global oil prices once.
@AlArabiya_Eng
Al Arabiya English
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#Oil prices rise more than 1 pct after a ship runs aground in the #SuezCanal raising supply concerns, although fears of a slow recovery in demand due to #European pandemic lockdowns limit gains.
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I have a Libya joke. That's all
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PSA to all Arabs: dear in English isn’t exactly the equivalent of عزيزي , unless you are a kind grandmother of course.
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Cat seems amused
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This is hilarious. He clearly didn’t like the result and was expecting another one, so decided to redo it.
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So none of this is surprising, although what is surprising is it took so long for a picture of Utkin's long reported Nazi tattoos to surface. This one did in December on some Russian VK accounts and a Telegram group affiliated with the mercenaries.
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There's much we don't report on in Libya that matters--limited appetite from editors and publications, or seen as too incremental, or it counters assumptive frameworks, so it ends up on the cutting room floor. Hope to highlight them here in the future
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It is official: Libya's Tripoli based government has approved a request demanding Turkish military assistance "by land sea and air," a senior GNA official tells me, to repel Haftar's offensive on the capital.
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This is why people who like cats like cats
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I've been saying for some time that Zawahiri wants to transform AQ from a terrorist group to a podcast.
@Dr_E_Kendall
Elisabeth Kendall
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Friday night viewing sorted. #AlQaeda commemorates 9/11 with a bash at investigative documentary: Deal of the Century or Crusade of the Century. Ironic to hear Zawahiri slam #AlJazeera 's lax "professionalism & integrity" (check out his own "halo"). 42 mins & it's only episode 1..
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Alerting news like the US is an Arabic country: American leader deploys army, threatens to shoot protesters American leader cracks down on social media Turkey leads global condemnation of American crackdown on protesters
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This is the group that Khalifa Haftar, in a Faustian pact, invited to Libya to help anoint him as dictator. Now, his nationalist senior officers rue that decision.
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An insight into Hamas weapons smuggling networks to Gaza: how a cell in Libya with connections in Turkey and Serbia sought to smuggle antiaircrafy missiles to Gaza, and how it all backfired
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Egyptian president Sisi warns there will be no tolerance to threats against national security. That would include the idea of Gazans being driven into Sinai, which the Egyptians won’t tolerate.
@AlArabiya_Brk
العربية عاجل
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الرئيس المصري: لا تهاون أو تفريط في أمن مصر القومي تحت أي ظرف #العربية_عاجل
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Interviewed Libya's GNA prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj today. He says Haftar's foreign backers have supplied him weapons since offensive started fears this could become a proxy war
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The best part about this is Moroccan police thinking: oh the khawaga is clearly insane, let's take her to a hospital.
@MiddleEastEye
Middle East Eye
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A British tourist has been caught on video berating and then attempting to bite a chicken seller in Morocco for keeping his hens in a cage
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Pakistan, Morocco, Oman started Ramadan on Wednesday. It has nothing to do with "following"--it's an evergreen dispute on calculating the lunar cycle and seeing the crescent.
@Ed_Husain
Ed Husain
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If you doubt why Saudi Arabia is a vital ally, consider this: Saudi Arabia announced Ramadan begins *today*. 85% of 1.8 billion people *followed*. That’s 55 nation states. Iran’s Ayatollahs declared Ramadan for *tomorrow*. No nation followed. Appeasing Iran is a blunder.
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How Putin Was Thrown Off Course by a Furious Libyan General . The backstory to the Moscow meeting where Putin tried his hand at Libyan peace making.
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I need this
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This is a text book example of how instability and the use of mercenaries in Libya has regional implications. The rebels from the Garaan tribe had been based in Juffra alongside Haftar's LNA and the Wagner PMC.
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A Russian official said Moscow was aware the US removed the Pantsir but suggested its capture would be of limited intelligence value..Export versions..are stripped of a carefully guarded identification friend or foe database with the transponder codes for Russian air force jets
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Back to Mr Utkin. In 2015 he was present, wearing his medals, at a Hero of the Fatherland reception in the Kremlin. The Kremlin later said he had been a recipient of the Order of Courage
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Man who shot Russian ambassador in Turkey can be heard saying "نحن الذين بايعوا محمد على الحهاد" We are those who pledged jihad to Mohamed
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What Twitter is this? It's new to me.
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Still, with no inbuilt shatafa, this is worthless junk.
@cnnbrk
CNN Breaking News
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A toilet made entirely of gold has been stolen from Blenheim Palace, where Winston Churchill was born
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There's been plenty of speculation on Russia's withdrawal of mercenaries from Africa because of the invasion of Ukraine. Speaking to multiple sources, we have a clearer picture. In Libya, Russia withdrew 1,000 Syrians and about 200 Wagner personnel
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Yesterday's LNA parade (which saw a jet crash just outside the stadium) reinforced two things: a) LNA is indeed ready to go to war again b) they would lose if they went to war, again.
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Judging by official statements, the Libyan conflict is unique in that the the countries who most denounce foreign intervention are the countries actually intervening in Libya.
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The best writing so far on the Capitol Affair
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In other news, the Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman has given an interview to Jazeera on Gaza. This must be the first since 2013?
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(OK so it wasn't a short thread)
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Hamas's head Haniyeh declares victory in the "battle to defend Jerusalem." Translation: we're done.
@RassdNewsN
شبكة رصد
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#عاجل | #هنية: حققنا النصر في معركة الدفاع عن #القدس، و #غزة العظيمة لن تتأخر عن القدس والمسجد الأقصى المبارك
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Egyptian TV anchor reading item on Morsi ends with "sent from a Samsung device."
@torkyat
sayed torky
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المذيعة بتقرا بيان المفترض إنه رسمي عن حالة محمد مرسي الصحية وبتقول في الآخر: تم الإرسال من جهاز سامسونج
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