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June 21, 2016

Palestinian girl in Gaza injured by the Egyptian army

A Palestinian girl in the southern Gaza Strip was injured by the Egyptian army’s bullets early yesterday morning. Local residents in the Palestinian town of Rafah told Quds Press that the...

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June 21, 2016

Tunisia extends state of emergency for another month

Tunisia extended the state of emergency in the country for another month yesterday. After consultation with Prime Minister Habib Essid and Parliament Speaker Mohammed Al-Nasser, President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of...

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June 21, 2016

Iraqi courts ordered release of 10,373 detainees in May

Iraq’s federal judicial authority ordered the release of 10,373 detainees during May after they were not proven guilty, including 3,456 people who were being held on terror-related charges. Abdul-Sattar Bayraqdar,...

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June 21, 2016

Tunisia doubles scholarships for Palestinians

Tunisia has doubled the number of scholarships it issued to Palestinian students, Felesteen newspaper reported Palestinian Education Minister Sabri Saidam saying. One hundred scholarships were made annually however this year, Tunisia is offering...

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June 21, 2016

The French farce reveals the lack of genuinely neutral interlocutors for the Palestinians

The fact that the same entities and people continue to support interminable compromised “negotiations” should be enough proof — if ever proof was needed — that the French initiative...

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June 21, 2016

Gaza workers dig into work at night during Ramadan

Gaza’s construction workers have taken to working nights during the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan. The workers are digging into their jobs after they break their fast when they...

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June 21, 2016

Preparing at grassroots for a peaceful, post-war Syria

When International Alert were asked to come up with a peace project spanning Turkey, Lebanon and Syria, they looked at the role peace education could play in reducing young...
June 21, 2016

Around 42% of West Bank, Gaza Strip residents are refugees

Some 41.6 per cent of Palestinian residents in the state of Palestine are refugees, Quds Press reported Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) saying yesterday. In an official report,...

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June 21, 2016

Official: Yemen talks need a miracle to bridge gap between warring parties

Abdullah Alimi, head of the Yemeni government advisory delegation in Kuwait, has described talks with rebels as “difficult and complex”, adding that the distance between the two parties is...

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June 21, 2016

Iraq’s Anbar tribes demand government withdraw Shia militia

Sunni tribes in Iraq’s Anbar province have demanded the government withdraw the Shia Popular Mobilisation Forces from the area and replace them with military units and clansmen. The tribes’...

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