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January 10, 2018

Black and white: Iraq’s ‘new’ enemy is nothing new

Wildly circulating rumours first published December last year posit the birth of a new armed Kurdish faction, dubbed, the “the bearers of White Flags” (WF). As the name suggests,...

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January 10, 2018

Syria: UN condemns mounting civilian deaths in E.Ghouta

UN’s top human rights official condemned Wednesday a recent escalation in airstrikes and ground attacks by regime forces and their allies which killed almost 100 people within the past...

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January 10, 2018

Doctors question mental health group’s ability to provide ‘safe space’ in Israel

Mental health workers have described as “disconcerting” the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy’s refusal to consider calls to move its next conference away from Israel. In response...

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January 10, 2018

UNICEF: 30% poverty rate in Egypt

Poverty rates in Egypt have increased over the past 15 years to reach 27.8 per cent in 2015, a report published by UNICEF last month has shown. As a...

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January 10, 2018

Rapists may face 30 years in jail in Somaliland

Somaliland has passed its first law against rape, in a bid by the new government of the breakaway region to crack down on violence against women, a senior official...

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January 10, 2018

Mossad Chief: Israel will be pleased to see social revolution in Iran

Israel will be pleased “to see a social revolution” in Iran, the head of Mossad said yesterday. “Expectations about the demonstrations in Iran should not be overstated. A revolution...

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January 10, 2018

UK grants bail to man suspected of funnelling Libya cash to France’s Sarkozy

A French businessman suspected of funnelling money from former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to finance Nicolas Sarkozy’s successful 2007 presidential campaign was granted bail when he appeared at a...

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January 10, 2018

I urge President Mahmoud Abbas to step down immediately

I wrote an article that was published in Al-Quds Al-Arabi on 18 June 2001 about the city of Jerusalem. “They conspired against you, Jerusalem, the city of the Arabs...

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January 10, 2018

Saudi Arabia to ease restrictions on foreign investment

The Saudi Capital Market Authority (CMA) yesterday announced measures to ease restrictions on foreign investment in the local stock market starting from 23 January. According to the updated reforms,...

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January 10, 2018

Syria opposition groups hold talks with Russia outside Ghouta

Syrian opposition groups under siege in the Damascus neighbourhood of Eastern Ghouta have resorted to talks with government ally Russia, according to Reuters. Whilst the meetings with Russian officials...

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