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October 2, 2017

Israel arrested 14,000 Palestinians since 2015

Israeli occupation forces have arrested 14,000 Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories since the start of the Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015, according to a rights group. According to...

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October 2, 2017

Will Jeremy Corbyn be able to fulfil his promises on Palestine?

When the Labour government in 2003 joined the disastrous US-led war against the people of Iraq, Tony Blair and other senior government ministers were much criticised on the left...

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October 2, 2017

Trump: Sudan must show commitment before sanctions are lifted

US President Donald Trump has reassured Congress that he will not lift economic sanctions imposed on Sudan without making sure that Khartoum is committed to implementing the agreed terms....

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October 2, 2017

Erdogan: Turkey no longer needs EU membership

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Parliament yesterday that his country no longer needs EU membership but would not unilaterally abandon the stalled talks to join the bloc. “We...

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October 2, 2017

The Kurdistan referendum is the prelude to a new, as yet nameless, Sykes-Picot

“We flew over the making of a new country which one day, if the Kurds weren’t betrayed again – as I rather thought they might be – would be...

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October 2, 2017

Libya: Benghazi port reopens after 3-year closure

Interim Prime Minister of the eastern based Beida government, Abdullah Al-Thinni, along with former member of the Presidential Council Ali Gatrani, were some of the personalities present yesterday to...

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October 2, 2017

Trial of Libyan charged with killing US ambassador to begin

A Libyan militant accused of heading an attack on an American compound that killed the US ambassador and three others in Benghazi in 2012 will stand trial in Washington...

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October 2, 2017

What next for Britain in Yemen?

When the Houthi uprising began in 2004, Saudi ears inevitably twitched. The government in Riyadh had spent the previous year building an enormous wall along the southern border to...

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October 2, 2017

HRW: Iran recruits Afghan children to fight in Syria

Human Rights Watch has accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guards of committing war crimes by recruiting children as young as 14 years old from Afghanistan to fight in Syria. The...

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October 2, 2017

Qatar Airways acquires 49% stake in Italy’s Meridiana airline

Qatar Airways announced yesterday that it had acquired a 49 per cent stake of AQA Holding, the new parent company of Italian airline Meridiana. CEO of Qatar Airways, Akbar...

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