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  • September 6, 2016

    Bahrain charges rights activist after New York Times article

    Bahrain has placed charges on leading human right’s activist Nabeel Rajab after New York Times published an op-ed which he wrote in prison. “Letter from a Bahraini jail” was...

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  • September 6, 2016

    Al-Qassam Brigades: ‘Issue of enemy’s prisoners is sensitive, complicated’

    Hamas’ military wing Al-Qassam Brigades said yesterday that the issue of the Israeli soldiers who went missing in Gaza during the Israeli offensive on the coastal enclave in 2014...

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  • September 6, 2016

    Sudan jails 2 opposition journalists

    Two journalists from Sudan’s largest opposition group, the Umma Party, have been jailed for publishing “false news, defamation and taking pictures of military zones,” the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday....

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  • September 6, 2016

    Bad finances leading to Daesh’s defeat in Libya

    Daesh was defeated in the Libyan city of Sirte because of the group’s poor financing, a new report has revealed. “Who pays for ISIS in Libya?”, released by Hate...

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  • September 6, 2016

    Classroom shortage in East Jerusalem greater than five years ago

    The Jerusalem municipality has built just a fraction of the classrooms needed by Palestinians in the east of the city, in defiance of a 2011 Israeli Supreme Court decision....

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  • September 6, 2016

    Egypt built 13 new prisons to house 60,000 political prisoners

    Egypt has built 13 new prisons since the 2013 coup with a further three under construction, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has said. There are now...

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  • September 6, 2016

    Is Israel pushing for a Palestinian civil war?

    Division within Palestinian society has reached unprecedented levels, becoming a major hurdle on the path of any unified strategy to end Israel’s violent occupation or to rally Palestinians behind...

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  • September 6, 2016

    Palestinians stranded in Egypt humiliated

    Palestinians stranded in Egypt because of the closure of the Rafah crossing fall victim to unprecedented humiliation at the hands of Egyptian authorities, Felesteen newspaper reported yesterday. Travelling through...

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  • September 6, 2016

    Haniyeh heads to Saudi for the Hajj

    Deputy head of Hamas’ political bureau Ismail Haniyeh yesterday left the Gaza Strip heading to Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. According to local media sources, Haniyeh left...

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  • September 6, 2016

    East Jerusalem ‘is not part of Israel,’ insists Czech Republic

    A spokeswoman for the foreign ministry of the Czech Republic has told the media that it does not consider East Jerusalem to be part of Israel. “The EU member...

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