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June 5, 2017

UAE leaks: ‘Qatar and FIFA are poster children for corruption’

New leaks from a hacked e-mail account belonging to Yousef Al-Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to Washington, have revealed that he accused the State of Qatar and the...

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June 5, 2017

Israel spent $20bn constructing illegal settlements

Successive Israeli governments have spent $20 billion in constructing illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank since 1967, Israeli NGO, Macro Centre for Political Economics, estimated. The large investment...

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June 5, 2017

Oil price down following Arab-Qatar rift

Oil prices fell about one per cent today on concerns that the cutting of ties with Qatar by top crude exporter Saudi Arabia and other Arab states could hamper...

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June 5, 2017

Egyptians fear for jobs in Qatar after diplomatic rift

Anxious Egyptians began flooding their community in Qatar with calls at dawn today after learning that Cairo had cut ties with the wealthy Gulf state where they have made...

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June 5, 2017

Palestinian taxi driver hospitalised after Israeli attack

Israeli forces violently assaulted a Palestinian taxi driver “for no reason” near the village of Nabi Salih west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank last night, members...

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June 5, 2017

Russia, Turkey discuss joint warplanes production

Russia and Turkey have been discussing the joint production of fifth generation warplanes, the CEO of Russia’s Rostec Corporation, Sergey Chemezov, revealed. Chemezov said the ministries of finance in...

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June 5, 2017

Sudan-Egypt ministerial meeting makes slow progress

Despite a meeting held in Cairo on Saturday between Sudan’s foreign minister and his Egyptian counterpart the two countries appear to have made little headway to resolve outstanding differences,...

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June 5, 2017

Morocco refuses to hand over stranded Syria refugees

Moroccan authorities have refused to extradite an estimated 42 Syrian refugees who have been stranded for the last two months between the Algeria and Morocco border, to an Algerian...

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June 5, 2017

Libya’s Haftar cuts diplomatic ties with Qatar

Libya’s eastern-based government has followed regional allies in cutting diplomatic ties with Qatar, its foreign minister, Mohamed Dayri, said today. It blamed Qatar for funding groups that have contributed...

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June 5, 2017

‘Young people in Tunisia feel betrayed by politicians’

In February 2016 Lina Ben Mhenni began an initiative to open libraries inside prisons across Tunisia as a way to counter extremism. When she announced the initiative on her...

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