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April 12, 2017

Italy accelerates asylum procedures

Italy’s parliament yesterday approved measures to accelerate asylum procedures, cutting the number of possible appeals and speeding up deportations of rejected migrants. Since 2014 the number of migrants reaching...

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April 12, 2017

Israeli drone strikes Sinai, kills one

One person was killed in a drone strike launched by Israel in Sinai’s Rafah on Monday, in response to a Grad rocket that Daesh launched from the peninsula towards...

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April 12, 2017

Migrants traded in ‘slave markets’ in Libya, UN

Growing numbers of African migrants passing through Libya are traded in what they call slave markets before being held for ransom, forced labour or sexual exploitation, the UN migration...

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April 12, 2017

10,000 Syrian refugees to be forced out of Lebanon's Bekaa valley, UN

Lebanon’s army has ordered evictions that could threaten the homes of 10,000 Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Monday. The UN...

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April 12, 2017

Controversial ex-president to run again in Iran presidential race

Ex-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad submitted his name today for registration as a candidate in Iran’s presidential election in May, state media reported. The move by the former hardline president...

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April 12, 2017

Trump spokesperson: ‘Trump’s attempts to destabilise the region’

White House press secretary Sean Spicer appeared on CNN yesterday evening to apologise for a claim he made that Hitler did not use chemical weapons during WWII, which provoked...

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April 12, 2017

Egyptian lawyer blames Morsi for church bombings

Egyptian lawyer Samir Sabry filed a complaint with the State Supreme Emergency Court against ousted President Mohamed Morsi, asking the court to hand him over to the criminal court...

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April 12, 2017

Israel confiscates Palestinian land to expand a checkpoint

Israeli forces levelled Palestinian land in the occupied city of Tulkarm yesterday in a effort to expand a military checkpoint, Quds Press reported. According to the reports, Israeli bulldozers...

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April 12, 2017

Iran's presidential race

Prospective candidates register to run in the presidential race in Tehran, Iran. ...

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April 12, 2017

White House accuses Russia of Syria chemical attack 'cover up'

President Donald Trump’s administration accused Russia on Tuesday of trying to shield Syria’s government from blame for a deadly gas attack, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson brought a...

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