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July 3, 2017

UN: Wars increasing world hunger

The number of hungry people in the world is rising again after years of decline, as millions suffer from the combined effects of conflict and climate change, the head...

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July 3, 2017

UK protest calls for stopping arms trade with Israel

The Stop Arming Israel campaign group held a demonstration outside an arms company that supplies weapons to Israel today. The campaign group is protesting outside Ferranti Factory based in...

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July 3, 2017

Israel to build 1,800 illegal settlements in East Jerusalem

Israel has confirmed plans to build 1,800 settlement units in the occupied East Jerusalem, the largest new settlement in over a decade. The plans include two new buildings –...

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July 3, 2017

The US has set the stage for a new Gulf War

Not all incidents in international relations are cataclysmic or game-changing; most are simply another thread woven into the web of history. The blockade imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia...

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July 3, 2017

Unwelcome: African migrants hit by new tax in Israel

Nine years ago, Teklit Michael fled Eritrea to avoid military conscription, survived a perilous journey across the Sinai Peninsula and sought asylum in Israel. The 29-year-old Eritrean community organiser...

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July 3, 2017

Revealing Israel’s arms exports to perpetrators of genocide is a moral obligation

In November 2016 Israel’s Supreme Court rejected a petition to reveal details of Israeli defence exports to the former Yugoslavia during the genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s. The...

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July 3, 2017

Dozens injured in clashes at the Gaza border

Clashes erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers along the border of the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday afternoon, leaving dozens injured. A number of Palestinians, including two paramedics, suffered...

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July 3, 2017

Forcing scholars to support boycott of Qatar is ‘intellectual terrorism’

Attempts to force scholars and Muslim leaders to support the Arab boycott of Qatar amount to “intellectual terrorism”, the Vice President of the World Union of Muslim Scholars, Ahmad...

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July 3, 2017

Qatar unwavering as deadline extends by 48 hours

Speaking on the list of demands put forward by the Saudi-led coalition against Qatar, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement that “he hopes they will...

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July 3, 2017

Army announces ceasefire in southern Syria

The Syrian army said it would suspend combat operations in southern Syria until Thursday, including in Quneitra province where Israel has hit army outposts in recent days, according to...

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