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February 23, 2017

Female Gaza students invent new plaster cement

Four female students from the Islamic University of Gaza have succeeded in inventing a new type of plaster cement which is made up of broken glass amongst other materials....

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February 23, 2017

Mosul Ops: 7,000 Iraq troops killed by Daesh

As the operation to recapture Mosul from the Daesh militant group continues into its fifth month, Amaq news agency, linked to the militants, released yet another summary of the...

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February 23, 2017

80,000 of Iraq’s displaced Sunnis stopped from returning home

Some 80,000 people from north of the province of Babil have not been allowed to return home two years after the area was recaptured from Daesh, the National Forces...

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February 23, 2017

Iran warns Arab states not to normalise relations with Israel

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned Arab countries yesterday not to be enticed by Israeli attempts to find allies in the Arab world. “The occupying regime, in an attempt to...

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February 23, 2017

UN: 67% of Syrians live in abject poverty

More than two thirds of the Syrian population live in either extreme or abject poverty as a result of nearly six years of civil war, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for...

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February 23, 2017

Decline in Tunisian torture cases but abuses still prevalent

The number of torture cases registered in Tunisia has declined significantly since 2015, though abuses still continue in prisons and detention centres, according to Tunisian Organisation Against Torture (OCTT)....

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February 23, 2017

Arab, African ministers call for enhanced trade

Arab and African trade ministers yesterday called for trade volumes to be increase between them. The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) in partnership with the Islamic Development Bank...

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February 23, 2017

PA court jails 3 Palestinians for trading Israeli settlement products

A Palestinian Authority (PA) court in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem sentenced three Palestinian merchants to two years in prison yesterday after they were found guilty...

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February 23, 2017

Israel resentences Palestinian released in Shalit swap deal

An Israeli court yesterday reinstated the sentence against previously released prisoner Nael Barghouthi, condemning him to life and 18 years in prison, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said. Barghouthi, 59,...

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February 23, 2017

Yemen urges world for help clearing landmines

Yemen yesterday called on the international community to help it clear landmines planted by the Houthi militia during the two-year war, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement published...

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