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September 13, 2017

HRW: Israel banks financing settlements

Israel’s largest banks are funding illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, even though they are under no obligation to do so by law, according to a report...

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September 13, 2017

Iraq vice presidents call on Kurds to cancel referendum

Iraq’s Vice Presidents, Osama Al-Nujaifi and Iyad Allawi, yesterday called on Kurdish President Massoud Barzani to cancel the referendum scheduled for 25 September to “spare the country new conflicts”....

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September 13, 2017

Uproar as ex-Israel soldier features in Morocco jazz festival

A jazz festival in Morocco has sparked an outcry for hosting a former recruit of the Israeli army. The guest appearance at Tangier’s Tanjazz has led to an array of...

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September 13, 2017

Mauritania disappointed as Morocco hosts opposition

Relations between Mauritania and neighbouring Morocco are could be rattled after Rabat agreed to host a number of Mauritanian opposition activists, political sources revealed. The sources, who asked not...

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September 13, 2017

Top Israel court strikes down military service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox

Israel’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled against legislation that exempts Jewish seminary students from military service, reopening a sensitive issue that could destabilise the country’s ruling coalition. A panel of...

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September 13, 2017

Turkey inks deal to purchase Russian S-400 air defence systems

Turkey has signed a deal to purchase the S-400 air defence system from Russia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was reported as saying. “A deposit has also been paid...

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September 13, 2017

Amnesty calls on Egypt to release detained Nubians

Amnesty International has called on Egypt to release 24 Nubian activists held in Cairo after they were arrested at a demonstration for greater recognition of their cultural rights. The...

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September 13, 2017

Sudan slams Egypt’s attempt to include disputed region on its map

Sudan has objected to an attempt by Egypt to include the disputed Halayeb triangle area in its map during a meeting of Arab officials in Qatar recently, a senior...

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September 13, 2017

Israel should back-off; Africa does not need a modern colonial master

The Twittersphere went into overdrive immediately after the cancellation of the controversial African-Israeli summit. “When you are on an Apartheid selling roadshow Africans don’t buy it,” tweeted the South...

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September 13, 2017

Israel minister backs plan to ‘assist’ Palestinian emigration

The National Union faction, which has Members of Knesset in the Jewish Home party, yesterday approved a plan at its national conference to annex the West Bank and “assist”...

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