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May 23, 2017

Daesh caliphate days are ‘numbered’, says UN head

“The days of the so-called Daesh caliphate in Iraq are numbered” and discussions on how to rebuild the country have begun, reported Jan Kubis, head of the UN Assistance...

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May 23, 2017

Medicines in such short supply in Gaza, treatments will stop

Medication supplies in the Gaza Strip have reached dangerously low levels after the decision was made to stop providing hospital and health centres in the southern municipalities with the...

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May 23, 2017

UN report: Democratic reforms, improved human rights needed in Sudan

Democratic reforms that protect and promote human rights in Sudan are among the principle recommendations of the preliminary report of a United Nations independent expert who concluded an 11-day...

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May 23, 2017

Trump: Palestinian, Israeli leaders ready to ‘reach for peace’

US President Donald Trump said today that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were prepared to “reach for peace”, even as he cautioned that a...

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May 23, 2017

US raid kills 7 Al-Qaeda fighters in Yemen

American Navy SEALs conducted a raid in Yemen yesterday morning killing seven Al-Qaeda linked fighters. The raid targeted a compound in the Marib Governorate that was linked to Al-Qaeda...

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May 23, 2017

Egypt and Canada to advance education links

Canadian Minister of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship, Ahmed Hussein, has arrived in Egypt to advance education exchange opportunities between Egypt and Canada. During his visit, Hussein attended the Canadian...

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May 23, 2017

Sudan: Egypt supplying weapons to rebels

Weapons being used by rebels in Darfur are being indirectly supplied by Egypt as a result of Cairo’s policy of supplying arms to Libya and South Sudan, a Sudanese...

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May 23, 2017

One person was displaced every second in 2016

One person every second was displaced in their home country in 2016 due to conflicts and disasters, according to an aid group yesterday. More than 31 million people were...

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May 23, 2017

German high court rules in favour of Syrian refugee

Germany’s highest court has upheld a complaint by a Syrian whose asylum claim was rejected because he’d already been granted asylum in Greece, reported the Associated Press. The...

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May 23, 2017

Trump, Abbas meet in Bethlehem

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem this morning. Palestinian presidential guard spokesman,...

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