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May 10, 2018

PLO officials urge boycott of US embassy opening

Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Tayseer Khaled, has urged embassies and diplomatic missions in Israel to boycott the opening ceremony of the US...

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May 10, 2018

Houthi leader seeks to escape to Iran

The Houthi armed group’s leader is searching for an escape route to Iran in a bid to avoid being assassinated, Yemen Today reported. “Unannounced” moves by Houthi officials seek...

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May 10, 2018

Setback for Modi after Trump’s withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal

President Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal may have major consequences for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The leader of the right wing BJP party, who is...

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May 10, 2018

Filmmakers, artists urge UK cinemas to reject Israel-sponsored film festival

Actors, filmmakers, artists and journalists have urged UK cinemas to boycott an Israeli government-sponsored film festival. According to Artists for Palestine UK, Maxine Peake, Liam Cunningham, Juliet Stevenson and...

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May 10, 2018

UK govt apologises, awards compensation to Libya’s Belhaj

The UK government has issued an “unreserved” apology and awarded £500,000 ($676,000) to Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his wife, in compensation for the British security services’ involvement in their...

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May 10, 2018

Welcome to Sinai, where soldiers shoot children then boast on Facebook

Even by the standards of Egypt’s dirty war the video circulating this week of a young boy pleading for his mother moments before he was shot in central Sinai...

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May 10, 2018

Amnesty slams Israel’s expulsion of HRW official

Amnesty International has slammed a decision by Israeli authorities to expel Human Rights Watch official Omar Shakir, in a statement released yesterday. “We stand in complete solidarity with Omar...

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May 10, 2018

Did US envoy to Israel help facilitate donations to far-right settler group?

US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, was president of a pro-settler organisation during a time when it donated tens of thousands of dollars to a far-right Israeli non-profit, reported...

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May 10, 2018

Lieberman: Israel destroyed ‘nearly all’ Iran infrastructure in Syria

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced today that Israel had destroyed almost Iran’s entire military infrastructure in Syria in a night of intense bombing across the border. Israeli missiles...

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May 10, 2018

Somalia: Woman with 11 husbands to be stoned to death by Al-Shabaab

A Somali woman with 11 husbands was handed the death penalty by stoning in an Al-Shabaab court yesterday, Garowe Online reported. The news came when two of the husbands...

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