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March 3, 2017

970 refugees rescued off the coast of Libya

Italy’s coastguard coordinated the rescue of some 970 migrants crammed into four rubber dinghies and two wooden boats off the coast of Libya on Thursday. In the past two...

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March 3, 2017

Kurds start killing each other in northern Iraq

Rival Kurdish groups clashed in Iraq’s northwestern Sinjar region on Friday, two Kurdish security sources said, causing deaths on both sides. The fighting erupted when so-called “Peshmerga Rojava” forces...

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March 3, 2017

Tunisia warned of collapse of state due to growing corruption

The resident of Tunisia’s National Anti-Corruption Authority, Chawki Tabib, warned on Thursday of the collapse of the state because of rampant corruption, smuggling and a parallel economy. He made...

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March 3, 2017

Morocco’s PJD restricts government to parties in previous coalition

Morocco’s Justice and Development Party (PJD) has backed the approach adopted by its leader, Abdelilah Benkirane — the designated Head of Government — to restrict the membership of the...

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March 3, 2017

PLO refuses any change to Arab Peace Initiative

The secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, said the PLO rejects any change to terms of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. “We are...

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March 3, 2017

Merkel strongly criticised for ‘passive’ position on human rights in Egypt

A priest in Germany has criticised Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday for her “passive” position on the human rights situation in Egypt as she headed to North Africa on a...

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March 3, 2017

Respect for human rights in Arab countries ‘has never been worse’ says former Tunisian president

Former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki has accused US President Donald Trump of contributing to the decline in human rights in the Middle East by supporting dictators there. Marzouki highlighted...

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March 3, 2017

PA security agencies make hundreds of arrests in one month

The Committee for the Families of Political Prisoners and Detainees in the West Bank has reported that it has documented 522 assaults by Palestinian Authority security officers in February....

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March 3, 2017

Will Israel try to avoid its previous mistakes by launching another war against Gaza?

Israel is facing the consequences of the leaks of extracts from the State Comptroller’s report on the failures of the 2014 war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip....

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March 3, 2017

Amnesty: Human rights crisis in Egypt continues

Egyptians are still suffering tough anti-human rights measures in Egypt, Amnesty International has reported. Days before the German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit, Mohamed Ahmed, an expert at the organisation,...

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