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  • August 30, 2017

    Sudan’s Al-Bashir pardons jailed human rights advocate

    Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has issued a presidential decree pardoning Dr Mudawi Ibrahim, a prominent rights activist arrested last year for alleged spying. Last December, Ibrahim was detained —...

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  • August 30, 2017

    US, Israel ‘masterminding’ weapons supplies to ‘terrorists’ in Syria

    An investigative reporter who claimed to have discovered a covert scheme “masterminded” by the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE to supply weapons to Daesh and Al-Qaeda terrorist groups...

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  • August 30, 2017

    Army Commander: Lebanon is Daesh free

    Lebanon today announced the end of its military operation to oust Daesh from along its border with Syria. Lebanese Armed Forces Commander General Joseph Aoun officially declared the end...

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  • August 30, 2017

    Israel questions PM’s billionaire friend over corruption charges

    Israeli police are to fly to London today to question billionaire businessman Len Blavatnik in relation to corruption charges facing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Haaretz. The...

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  • August 30, 2017

    Israel detains Palestinian band over song praising Halamish attacker

    Israeli forces detained a popular Palestinian wedding singer and his band members during predawn raids in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah today, reportedly over a video...

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  • August 30, 2017

    For Israel displacing Bedouins is financially rewarding

    When we speak of occupation, repression, displacement and control, we tend to look at the most powerful and visual sources of coercion and injustice: armies, government policies, policing and...

    Article

  • August 30, 2017

    Israel will not revoke credentials of Al Jazeera journalist

    Israel’s Government Press Office will not revoke the press card of Al Jazeera reporter Elias Karram, Haaretz reported. The decision comes after Karram provided a statement saying he does...

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  • August 30, 2017

    Protests as UN chief tours Gaza

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived for his first Israel-Palestine visit in the Gaza Strip today amid a cloud of anger from the families of prisoners with whom he refused...

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  • August 30, 2017

    The destruction of the Egyptian economy

    At a time when they are calling for the encouragement of investments, to the point where the Egyptian investment minister met with a Saudi businessman on his yacht while...

    Blog

  • August 30, 2017

    Poverty leads Yemen boy to commit suicide

    A 12-year-old Yemeni boy has hung himself because his family couldn’t afford new clothes for Eid, the New Arab reported. Ammar Mohamed Ali was found dead on the roof...

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