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September 30, 2016

UK taxpayers fund torture in Bahrain prisons

The UK Foreign Office has funded training for hundreds of prison guards in Bahrain who torture detainees into giving false confessions in order to secure the death penalty, a...

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September 30, 2016

Egypt’s great expectations of Sisi have turned to bitter disappointment, says Israeli study

An Israeli study claims that after three years of his presidency, Egyptians’ “great expectations” of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi have turned into “bitter disappointment”. Written by researcher Mira Tzoreff, and...

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September 30, 2016

Reporters Without Borders condemns imprisonment of Iranian journalist

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned a decision made by an appeal court in Iran to uphold a 10-year jail sentence given to a local journalist and human rights...

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September 30, 2016

US to extend Libya operation for another month

United States President Barack Obama will extend the US air campaign in Libya against Daesh militants for a third consecutive month. Initially supposed to last a few weeks, AFRICOM,...

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September 30, 2016

Syrian regime destroys Aleppo water station

A water station in opposition-held eastern Aleppo was destroyed by bombing today, dealing a further blow to a water system already badly damaged during a week-long offensive by the...

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September 30, 2016

The October War: legitimate questions and missing answers

The 43rd anniversary of the 1973 October War will be marked next week; this war deserves some serious reflection in light of the situation in the Arab world today....

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September 30, 2016

Boat migrant's father says his family's organs were stolen

The father of a man who - along with his wife and 3 children - drowned after a boat carrying 600 migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt says...

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September 30, 2016

Tunisian MPs demand investigation into European ‘dirty diesel’

The Tunisian Al-Irada Movement demanded that the Tunisian government launch an investigation into what they described as contaminated and toxic diesel imported from European companies. Al-Irada, a party that...

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September 30, 2016

Facebook apologises to Palestinians after blocking news pages

Facebook has apologised after shutting down a number of pages related to two Palestinian news sites. However, this has not dispelled the concerns of Palestinian activists and journalists that...

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September 30, 2016

US claims it has killed Daesh leaders in Mosul

Airstrikes by the international coalition against Daesh have killed 18 of the militant organisation’s commanders over the past 30 days, 13 of them in Mosul, a US military spokesman...

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