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February 28, 2017

UN urges access to Yemen ports to allow food aid in

All sides in the Yemen conflict must allow greater access to the country’s ports to let food, fuel and medicine imports in to ward off a looming famine, a...

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February 28, 2017

Severe shortage of cooking gas in Gaza

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are struggling to source cooking gas because of a severe shortage in the besieged Strip, Safa news agency reported yesterday. According to the Chairman...

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February 28, 2017

Israel evacuates small settler community

Israeli police today began removing residents and protesters from nine West Bank settler homes set to be demolished under a Supreme Court ruling. The homes in the Ofra settlement...

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February 28, 2017

Facebook closes Fatah party’s online page

Facebook has shut down the page of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, apparently because of a picture of the late Yasser Arafat carrying a weapon, the movement said....

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February 28, 2017

Previously cancelled conference on Israel to go ahead in Ireland

A conference on international law and the state of Israel that was reportedly previously cancelled will go ahead as planned, organisers have confirmed. In an announcement on their website,...

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February 28, 2017

Do black lives matter less in Lancashire than in Apartheid Israel?

A few days ago, a British university cancelled an event planned as part of “Israeli Apartheid Week” on the grounds that it was anti-Semitic. Naturally, the cancellation by the...

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February 28, 2017

Rafsanjani died in mysterious circumstances, says his daughter

The daughter of former Iranian President and chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died aged 83 on 8 January, has said that the reasons given...

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February 28, 2017

Judges in Tunisia go on strike

Judges in Tunisia went on strike yesterday calling for higher wages. The judges carried out a strike in all courts except urgent hearings related to the issues of childhood...

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February 28, 2017

Moscow and Damascus are in contact about ‘safe zones’ in Syria

Russia’s deputy foreign minister said on Monday that his country is in regular contact with the regime in Damascus on several issues, including the establishment of safe zones in...

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February 28, 2017

Aren’t protests about ‘anti-Semitism’ occasionally manifestations of white privilege?

Human rights activists and academics such as myself are increasingly being accused of anti-Semitism when we speak in support of the Palestinian struggle and the international Boycott, Divestment and...

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