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Turkish female-only news site fights 'terror' ban

 A news website in the Kurdish-majority Turkish city of Diyarbakir, staffed only by women, has been repeatedly shut down by the authorities over alleged terror propaganda but it is refusing to give up the fight to publish. Jin News Agency, from the Kurdish word for woman "Jin,"...

Netanyahu to meet 'true friend' Trump, amid legal woes

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have a brief respite next week from the deluge of legal woes he faces when he heads to Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump. Even as he prepared for his trip, Netanyahu was again questioned by police in...

Sudan to return ambassador to Cairo: foreign minister

CAIRO (Reuters)- Sudan will send its ambassador back to neighbouring Egypt on Monday, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said, two months after withdrawing him amid heightened tensions. Khartoum has not explained why it recalled Abdel Mahmoud Abdel Halim early in January. But disputes...