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April 21, 2017

Over 200,000 displaced Libyans allowed to return home

Some 200,000 of Libya’s half a million internally displaced people have returned to their homes, a report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has revealed. The majority of...

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April 21, 2017

UN: Human rights abuses, social exclusion fuel terrorism

More than 30,000 foreign terrorist fighters from over 100 countries have travelled to the Middle East in recent years to join groups like Daesh and Al-Qaeda, the UN was...

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April 21, 2017

Iraq Shia militias free 26 Qataris for $90 million ransom

26 Qataris, including members of the Gulf state’s ruling royal family and two Saudis, were freed on Friday after being kidnapped and held for a ransom of millions...

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April 21, 2017

China, Iran sign contract to redesign nuclear reactor

Chinese and Iranian companies are to sign the first commercial contracts to redesign Iran’s Arak heavy water nuclear reactor as part of an international agreement reached in 2015, the...

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April 21, 2017

1,500 Palestinian prisoners continue hunger strike

More than 1,500 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails are continuing their hunger strike which began on Monday in protest against the conditions they are being held in. According...

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April 21, 2017

PA President Mahmoud Abbas needs to decide which side he’s on

It is perfectly normal for Palestinians to have political differences with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), but it is wholly unacceptable for any Palestinian, official or otherwise, to call...

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April 21, 2017

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April 21, 2017

Democracy is in the Arab world to stay, says Ghannouchi

The founder of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party has told a London audience that democracy is in the Arab world to stay. “The Arab spring is not dead,” said Shaikh Rached...

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April 21, 2017

Egyptian MP calls for greater militarisation of high schools

Military vocational schools would benefit Egypt’s teenagers more than high schools that focus on skills and trades, the country’s deputy minister of education has suggested. Ahmad El-Guweishy made his...

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April 21, 2017

Egypt’s extrajudicial execution of alleged Daesh members

A leaked video broadcast by the opposition news channel Mekameleen TV in Egypt shows the Egyptian army extrajudicially executing prisoners in Sinai in December 2016. The Egyptian army’s Facebook...

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