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March 1, 2017

US threatens to withdraw from UN human rights body for criticising Israel

The Trump administration is apparently considering quitting the UN Human Rights Council because of its critical stance towards Israel. US officials are thought to be weighing their membership of...

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March 1, 2017

Qaradawi’s son sentenced to 5 years for ‘spreading false news’

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced the poet and writer Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradawi and two others in absentia to five years in prison on a charge of spreading false news...

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March 1, 2017

Trump to remove Iraq from ‘Muslim Ban’ list

President Donald Trump’s new immigration order will remove Iraq from a list of Muslim majority countries whose citizens face a temporary US travel ban. Trump is expected to sign...

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March 1, 2017

Wild West Mosul

As we enter the tenth day since the Iraqi military began its assault to capture the western half of Mosul, it would perhaps be useful to remind ourselves that...

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March 1, 2017

Turkey, Iran presidents meet to defuse tensions

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed today to improve ties, including in the fight against terrorism, Iran’s state news agency IRNA said, following some...

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March 1, 2017

Report: Gaza war could have been avoided if Israel addressed humanitarian concerns

A new report by the Israeli state comptroller on Israel’s 2014 military campaign against Gaza concludes that war could have been avoided if the Strip’s humanitarian condition was allowed...

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March 1, 2017

Assad regime will recapture Palmyra for second time ‘very soon’

Russian-backed Syrian government forces will enter the Daesh-held city of Palmyra “very soon”, a Syrian military source said today, as government forces seek to win back the city from...

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March 1, 2017

In refusing entry to a Fatah official, Egypt has revealed its dispute with the PA

Egypt has refused entry to a senior Fatah official, the Secretary of the movement’s Central Committee, Jibril Al-Rajoub. In doing so, it has revealed its hitherto undeclared dispute with...

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March 1, 2017

Two Iraq Shia militia leaders killed west of Mosul in a week

A military commander in the Iraqi Shia paramilitary organisation, the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), has been killed in clashes with Daesh in the area of Tal Afar, west of...

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March 1, 2017

Over 25,000 children crossed the Mediterranean in 2016

Refugee and migrant children are “routinely suffering sexual violence, exploitation, abuse and detention across the Central Mediterranean migration route from North Africa to Italy”, warns a new report by...

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