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January 16, 2018

Israel extends Ahed Tamimi’s detention for 48 hours

An Israeli court extended today the detention of the 16-year-old Palestinian girl, Ahed Al-Tamimi, for 48 hours “pending further investigation.” Al-Tamimi’s detention was extended four times since she was...

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January 16, 2018

In words and deeds: the genesis of Israeli violence

Not a day passes without a prominent Israeli politician or intellectual making an outrageous statement against Palestinians. Many of these statements tend to garner little attention or evoke rightly...

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January 15, 2018

Nile water crisis places Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia on the brink of war

The irony of the presence of Egyptian troops gathering on the Eritrean-Sudanese border over its objection to Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam is not lost on legal experts aware of Egypt’s...

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January 15, 2018

Israel security official: Gaza’s collapse will see ‘uncontrollable blow up’

Gaza is on the verge of collapse, Israeli security officials have said while warning of an “uncontrollable blow up” from the enclave. One security official cited by Haaretz said...

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January 15, 2018

The shameful intelligence leaks confirmed what we already knew

We did not need media leaks to reveal that an officer in Egypt’s intelligence agency, Captain Ashraf El-Kholi, was telling presenters on Egyptian TV channels what they should say...

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January 15, 2018

Qatar denies intercepting UAE civilian jets

Qatar has denied earlier reports that its fighter jets had intercepted a UAE civilian aircraft. The UAE claimed today that Qatari fighter jets intercepted two of its commercial airliners...

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January 15, 2018

Algeria doctors’ union extends strikes

Algeria’s doctors have continued their strike until further notice following a week of protests in the country after a sit-in calling for better working conditions in the capital Algiers...

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January 15, 2018

Lack of ‘equal opportunities’ force Sadat to drop out of Egypt elections

The nephew of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat today announced that he will not be running in this year’s presidential elections. Blaming an environment of fear surround the vote,...

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January 15, 2018

Houthis confirm release of Yemen activist Hisham Al-Omeisy

A famous Yemeni activist who was abducted by the Houthi group in August last year has been released, the group’s spokesperson told MEMO. Al-Omeisy was released three days ago...

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January 15, 2018

Oprah built her talk shows around the hell Iraqis suffer today

A dazzling self-help guru, feminist and billionaire is the general view held of Oprah Winfrey worldwide. Rarely have her credentials been on trial as they were this week following...

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