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March 26, 2017

UN commission approves draft resolution on Palestinian women

The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women approved a draft resolution on Saturday regarding the status of Palestinian women, including strengthening economic and social policies to enhance...

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March 26, 2017

Israel orders Palestinian families in Jordan Valley to evacuate homes for military drills

Israeli forces notified several Palestinian families in the northern Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank on Sunday that they would have to evacuate their homes on Wednesday...

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March 26, 2017

Suicide bomber targets district governor’s home in Iraq

A suicide bomber has blown himself up inside the house of a local official in the city of Fallujah in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, according to a police...

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March 26, 2017

Turkey summons Swiss envoy over rally it says supported terrorism

Turkey’s foreign ministry summoned Switzerland’s charge d’affairs in Ankara on Saturday to complain about a protest in Bern that it said supported terrorism and included a poster calling for...

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March 26, 2017

Pro-Houthi court sentences Yemen president to death for treason

A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group’s enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials...

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March 26, 2017

Moroccan PM says he has agreed coalition with 5 other parties

Moroccan Prime Minster Saad Eddine El Othmani said on Saturday he had agreed to form a coalition government with five other parties, breaking nearly six months of post-election deadlock....

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March 26, 2017

Yemen’s food crisis – ancient trade route represents a lifeline

Captains of small wooden dhows are carrying food and wares from the United Arab Emirates to war-torn Yemen. But supplies are falling even from this centuries-old Arabian sea route...

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March 26, 2017

Iraqi military says 61 bodies found in collapsed Mosul building

Iraqi’s military said on Sunday 61 bodies were recovered from a collapsed building that Daesh boobytrapped in west Mosul, but there was no sign it had been hit by...

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March 26, 2017

Daesh warns Syrian dam at risk of collapse

Daesh has warned that the Tabqa dam, which a US-backed Kurdish and Arab militia is trying to capture from the militant group, is at imminent risk of collapse because...

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March 26, 2017

US-backed Syrian militia corners Daesh in Raqqa

A Kurdish and Arab Syrian militia backed by the United States has captured the town of Karama as it prepares for an assault on the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa...

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