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March 14, 2017

Students call off hunger strike in Algeria

Dental students have decided to suspend their hunger strike after a letter from the secretary-general of the Ministry of Higher Education granted permission for a meeting with the student...

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March 14, 2017

Somali pirates hijack UAE ship

Somali pirates have hijacked a commercial oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, in the first successfully hijacked since 2012, officials said. A coast guard official in the north-eastern Puntland...

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March 14, 2017

Israel to clear army of killing Gaza family during 2008 offensive

An Israeli army report has contradicted a previous finding that the death of four members of one family in Gaza during the 2008-2009 war was caused by artillery shells....

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March 14, 2017

The disgraceful scenes witnessed in Holland may yet lead to something positive

Referendums are in the news, greeted by equal measures of loathing, hysteria and support whenever they are announced. This fact notwithstanding, it looks as if the western media has...

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March 14, 2017

Syria is a ‘torture-chamber’, UN calls for prosecution

The top UN human rights official today called for tens of thousands of detainees to be released from Syria’s prisons and for torturers to be brought to court as...

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March 14, 2017

Israel closes Palestinian land mapping office in Jerusalem

Israel today closed a Palestinian office which maps and monitors the transfer of Palestinian land to Israelis, ransacking it and detaining its director, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa...

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March 14, 2017

Almost half-a-million killed in six years of Syria fighting, reveals rights group

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that more than 465,000 people have been killed or forcibly disappeared during the six years of fighting in the Syrian...

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March 14, 2017

Morocco opens retrial of 25 Sahrawis accused of murdering 13

A Moroccan court yesterday resumed the trial of 25 Sahrawis accused of murdering 13 people in November 2010. The majority of those killed were security forces based in the contested Western Sahara’s...

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March 14, 2017

EU court backs employer ban on hijabs

The European Court of Justice has today been criticised for defying the body autonomy of women by allowing employers to ban the headscarf on the grounds that employers are...

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March 14, 2017

Syrian doctor Hasan Hariri dies in airstrike

Hasan Hariri, one of Syria’s most respected doctors, has died in a suspected regime bombing whilst tending to an injured opposition soldier in Dara’a on Sunday, the New Arab...

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