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April 26, 2017

UNRWA limits staff involvement on social media

UNRWA’s workers’ union has criticised the international organisation for issuing workers with a warning against using social media to discuss Palestinian issues, saying such actions may lead to salary deductions,...

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April 26, 2017

Rising above Dubai

The view from the world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa...

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April 26, 2017

Israel demolishes Palestinian structures in Ramallah

Israeli forces yesterday demolished several commercial buildings and levelled Palestinian lands in Ramallah’s western town of Ni’lin. Eyewitnesses told Quds Press that the occupation forces protected the bulldozers while...

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April 25, 2017

UN: Mediterranean refugee deaths in 2017 top 1,000

Some 23 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea last weekend, bringing the Mediterranean death toll this year to 1,089, the UN said Tuesday. “43,204 migrants and refugees...

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April 25, 2017

Erdogan: Turkey will not allow Iraq's Sinjar to become PKK base

Turkey will not let northern Iraq’s Sinjar region become a base for Kurdish PKK militants and will continue military operations there and in northern Syria “until the last terrorist...

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April 25, 2017

Iraq says Kuwait approves $100m grant

Kuwait has approved a $100 million grant for Iraq to support humanitarian and reconstruction projects in areas retaken from Islamic State militants, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday. The...

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April 25, 2017

Iran's Khamenei says next president should be less engaged with West

Iran’s supreme leader called on presidential candidates on Tuesday to champion economic self-sufficiency, further distancing himself from Hassan Rouhani’s policy of opening to the West and seeking foreign investment....

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April 25, 2017

George Clooney’s pressure group to warn against removing sanction on Sudan

The director of an American pressure group opposed to the easing of sanctions on Sudan is expected to testify before the US Congress Wednesday, the Congress website revealed today....

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April 25, 2017

Turkish ambitions set to grow in the wake of referendum

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in the Turkish constitutional referendum has been widely interpreted in Europe as amounting to a shift away from democracy. Some observers have gone even further...

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April 25, 2017

They are killing prisoners

All of the Egyptians were shocked on Thursday when anti-coup Al-Mekameleen television broadcast the leaked video of Egyptian soldiers leading young imprisoned men in Sinai, including a child who...

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