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May 2, 2017

US: 352 civilians accidently killed in Syria, Iraq

The US army announced on Sunday that the international coalition’s air force had killed at least 352 civilians in airstrikes against Daesh militants in Iraq and Syria since 2014....

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May 2, 2017

UNHCR: Sudan hosts 25% of South Sudan’s refugees

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says Sudan is currently hosting about a quarter of the South Sudanese refugees in the region, according to the UN Office for the Coordination...

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May 2, 2017

Gazans protest against siege, call for Abbas to step down

Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered this morning across Salah Al-Din Street in protest of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ policies against the Gaza Strip, to demand an end...

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May 2, 2017

Haftar and Sarraj to meet for talks in UAE

Libya’s military strongman, Khalifa Haftar, flew from Benghazi’s Benina Airport yesterday to Abu Dhabi for a rumoured meeting with Presidency Council head Fayez Al-Sarraj. According to a statement released by...

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May 2, 2017

UN envoy meets with Sudan to end presence of Sudanese rebel fighting in Libya

Sudanese rebels from Darfur who have been pushed out of Sudan are fighting as mercenaries in Libya, according to the Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission...

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May 2, 2017

Protests to end slavery in Mauritania

Hundreds of Mauritanians marched on Saturday against slavery and to denounce the injustice against them. Despite slavery being abolished in the West African nation in 1981, it is still...

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May 2, 2017

3 policemen killed in drive-by-shooting in Egypt

Gunmen have attacked a police patrol in Cairo killing three and wounding five in a late night drive-by-shooting, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement. Two of the...

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May 2, 2017

UN: Egypt ‘facilitates radicalisation’

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein said yesterday that heavy-handed security measures by Egypt foster radicalisation rather than curb it, Reuters reported. Read: Egypt prisons 300% over...

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May 2, 2017

Egypt refuses to compensate Israel over gas supply halt

Egypt has refused the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes’ ruling calling on it to pay compensation to state-owned Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) over the suspension of gas...

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May 2, 2017

Statistics: 361,000 unemployed Palestinians in 2016

The Palestinian Central Bureau for Statistics (PCPS) said on Sunday that there were 361,000 unemployed Palestinian workers in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2016. “Unemployment in...

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