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April 17, 2017

The West’s disturbing obsession with how Syrians die

How would you prefer to die? Suffocation by sarin or suffocation by sandstone? Do you favour starvation over succumbing to shrapnel wounds? Or perhaps your extermination of choice is...

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April 17, 2017

Triumphant Erdogan swats away Western criticism of referendum

A defiant Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the West’s “crusader mentality” on Monday after European monitors criticised a referendum in which he won sweeping new powers. Erdogan, whose narrow...

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April 17, 2017

Fatah ‘has not yet informed’ Hamas about Gaza visit

Hamas spokesman Ismail Ridwan said on Sunday that the movement has not received any calls or requests to meet with a Fatah delegation supposedly going to Gaza to discuss...

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April 17, 2017

Arab League calls for international protection for Palestinians held by Israel

The Arab League called on Sunday for international protection for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, Anadolu has reported. Such protection should aim to put an immediate end to their...

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April 17, 2017

Egyptian MPs call for high charges for social media use

A number of Egyptian MPs have proposed the imposition of high fees for using social media and well-known websites, Masralarabia.com reported on Sunday. One Free Egyptians Party MP suggested...

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April 17, 2017

Tunisia is localising its democratic transition to further the aims of the revolution

Following the legislative and presidential polls in 2014, Tunisia has eventually announced that its municipal elections will be held on 17 December. The date is highly symbolic, as the...

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April 17, 2017

Trump, Russia and the Syrian crisis

Ten days ago, US warships fired dozens of missiles at a Syrian air base from where it is suspected fighter aircraft belonging to the Assad regime took off to...

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April 17, 2017

PA calls on Marwan Barghouthi to call off hunger strike

Senior Palestinian Authority officials have sent a message to a Fatah leader imprisoned by Israel calling on him to call off the mass hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners, local...

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April 17, 2017

Gaza’s only power station is completely out of service

The Palestinian Power Authority in Gaza announced on Sunday that the only power station in the territory has stopped working due to a lack of fuel. The only electricity...

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April 17, 2017

Yemenis face ‘torture till death’ in Houthi detention, says ex-prisoner

Yemeni prisoners are being “tortured to death” in the Houthis’ secret detention facilities, the Sana’a-based Association of Abductees’ Mothers reported yesterday. Speaking at a session held by the association in the Yemeni city of Ma’rib, the freed...

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