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June 21, 2017

Belgian troops kill ‘terrorist’ bomber in Brussels train station

Belgian troops shot dead a suspected suicide bomber in Brussels’ central train station on Tuesday but there were no other casualties, in what authorities were treating as the latest...

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June 21, 2017

Air strikes pound southwest Syrian city of Deraa

Government air and artillery bombardments hit rebel-held areas of the Syrian city of Deraa, on the border with Jordan, on Tuesday after a two-day ceasefire expired, witnesses, rebels and...

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June 21, 2017

UN council approves former Lebanese minister as new Libya envoy

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday approved the appointment of a former Lebanese culture minister as the new UN envoy to Libya, diplomats said, ending an unusually contentious...

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June 21, 2017

Opposition forces say Syrian army, Iranian-backed militias launch offensive in eastern desert

Western-backed Syrian rebels holding a strategic swathe of the desert southeast stretching to the Iraqi border said they came under major attack on Tuesday from government forces and allied...

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June 21, 2017

Syrians break their fast admist the rubble

Hundreds of Syrian children were treated to an iftar, the break fast meal during Ramadan, amidst the rubble of their destroyed town, shocking pictures shared on social media have...

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June 21, 2017

US shoots down drone close to Iraqi-Syrian border

The US military said it had shot down an armed, Iranian-made drone that had been bearing down on its forces near a garrison in Syria’s southeast on Tuesday, in...

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June 20, 2017

HRW calls on Egypt to respect Morsi’s rights

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Egyptian authorities to respect the rights of the former president, Mohamed Morsi, who has been held in a prison following his...

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June 20, 2017

Israel shoots, kills Palestinian in West Bank

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian near the Qalandiya military checkpoint in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah yesterday. Israeli news site Ynet reported that Israeli...

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June 20, 2017

Proposed bill strips Arab-Israelis of their citizenship

A proposed new Israeli bill seeks to strip perpetrators of anti-occupation resistance attacks of their Israeli citizenship and their families of legal residency permits, Israeli media reported. According to...

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June 20, 2017

Qatar: What comes after the blockade?

The question occupying the minds of those in Qatar is not how the land, sea and air blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain can be lifted....

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