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Iraq opens Kirkuk Airport for civil aviation in August

BAGHDAD, 17 July 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: Kirkuk Airport will open for domestic and international flights in August, , an Iraqi official announced on Monday. Rakan al-Jubouri, the governor of Kirkuk, told reporters that experts from the Ministry of Transportation would arrive in Kirkuk shortly to confirm the date of the first landing. “Kirkuk Airport will serve millions of people from Diyala, Saladin, and Mosul,” said al-Jubouri who revealed that the airport would be operated by a French company. A total of six airports remain operational in cities like Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Mosul and within the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). Kirkuk Airport had been used by the U.S. Air Force as a military airbase since the 2003 U.S. invasion. It was handed over to Iraqi authorities in November 2011.

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Exhibition in Gaza displays products denied by Israel

GAZA, 04 Aug 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: An exhibition was organized in Gaza Strip to showcase more than a thousand products forbidden to enter into the city by Israeli authorities. The exhibition, organized by Popular Committee to End Gaza's Siege, put on display various products varying from a wedding dress, feeding bottle to soap and nappy. "The Israeli blockade made it impossible to meet even the most basic commodities," Jamal al-Hudari, the committee head, told Anadolu Agency. “The exhibition aims to draw the world’s attention to the Israeli blockade,” he added. Noting that Israel did not let feeding bottles, plastic materials, children's swimming equipment, electronic devices, toys, wedding dresses, cosmetic products and basic building materials into Gaza, Hudari said that the humanitarian

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Netanyahu says new Israel elections would be ‘irresponsible’

JERUSALEM, 19 Nov 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: Israel’s prime minister says it would be “irresponsible” to dissolve the government and call early elections. Benjamin Netanyahu issued the message on Monday, moments before his education minister, Naftali Bennett, was to announce whether he’s pulling his Jewish Home Party out of the coalition. If Bennett leaves, it would cause the government to collapse and trigger new elections. Bennett has threatened to withdraw from the coalition to protest a cease-fire reached by Netanyahu last week with Hamas militants. Netanyahu’s defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, resigned in protest. Bennett had demanded the defense portfolio as a condition for remaining in the government. But late Sunday, Netanyahu said he would take the job himself. Netanyahu says he will do

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