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May 11, 2017

UN: Further $900m needed for Somalia crisis response

The United Nations is seeking a further $900 million this year for Somalia, where more than six million people need humanitarian assistance and 275,000 malnourished children are at risk...

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May 11, 2017

Kurdish militants promise to ‘build a free Syria’ after US decision to arm them

The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), one of the main Kurdish militia groups in Syria, has proclaimed its aim to “build a free Syria” using the arms sent to...

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May 11, 2017

Tunisia’s Essebsi warns democratic process under threat

Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi yesterday warned that the democratic process in the country is seriously under threat, pointing out that for the first time a president has been...

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May 11, 2017

Sudan forced to pay salary of national airline staff

Sudan’s Ministry of Defence yesterday confirmed that the national airline, Sudan Airways, is running at such a huge loss that employees’ salaries had to be paid directly by the...

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May 11, 2017

Hamas officially accuses Israel of assassinating Fuqaha

Head of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh announced today that Israel is responsible for the assassination of its senior member Mazen Fuqaha in Gaza. In a press conference, Haniyeh...

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May 11, 2017

McDonald’s staff pours boiling water on Syrian child to get rid of him

A McDonald’s employee in Turkey has been sacked after pouring boiling water on a six-year-old Syrian child who was “disturbing customers”. According to the local BirGun (One Day) newspaper,...

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May 11, 2017

Al-Aqsa guard to return after 11 months in Israeli jails

Palestinian Fadi Aliyan is due to return to his job guarding Al-Aqsa Mosque next week, after spending 11 months in Israeli prisons. The 31-year-old, from Al-Issawiya in Jerusalem, was...

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May 11, 2017

Settlers storm Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus

Hundreds of extremist settlers stormed Joseph’s Tomb east of the occupied northern West Bank town of Nablus early this morning accompanied by Israeli occupation forces. Heads of the committee...

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May 11, 2017

Barghouthi’s wife calls on Pope to help hunger strikers

Pope Francis should intervene to help hunger striking Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails “before it is too late”, the wife of senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has said....

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May 11, 2017

PA denies halting medical shipments to Gaza

The Palestinian Authority yesterday denied claims that it was stopping the transfer of medicines and baby formula from reaching the besieged Gaza Strip. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra...

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