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Security Council Briefed on Iran Sanctions

The chairman of the United Nations committee monitoring sanctions on Iran in relation to its uranium enrichment activities briefed the Security Council today on Member States’ implementation measures.

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50-year saga to reclaim Egypt’s ‘Cecil Hotel’

It took exactly half a century for the Metzger family to reclaim ownership of the Cecil Hotel, the illustrious palace overlooking Egypt’s Mediterranean and immortalised in Lawrence Durrell’s classic, “The Alexandria Quartet.” “I can’t believe it, after all these years of lost hope,” said Patricia Metzger, the British daughter in-law …

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Iraqi orphans moved to better facilities in Baghdad

The 24 boys found severely malnourished in a Baghdad orphanage have been moved to a different building in the same facility and are being properly cared for, Iraqi officials said Thursday.

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