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February 16, 2017

Fatah accused of sidelining Marwan Barghouti after Netanyahu’s threats

Fadwa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Fatah Movement’s Revolutionary Council and wife of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, has accused the movement’s Central Committee of sidelining her husband...

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February 16, 2017

Netanyahu denies plans for Palestinian state in Gaza, Sinai Peninsula

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today denied that the Israeli government was discussing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in Gaza extending into the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt....

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February 16, 2017

Report: 360,000 unemployed Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza Strip

As many as 360,000 Palestinians are unemployed including 206,800 in the Gaza Strip, a new report has found. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in a report today...

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February 16, 2017

Hadi forces announce capture of sites in Taiz

Military sources loyal to Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi announced today that they had taken control of new sites in the Taiz province. The official government news agency...

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February 16, 2017

France: US position on Middle East peace ‘confused and worrying’

France considers the US position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “confused and worrying”, its foreign minister said today, reacting to US President Trump’s dropping of the America’s commitment to a...

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February 16, 2017

Trump will issue new ruling after ‘Muslim ban’ halted

US President Donald Trump said today that he would be issuing an order next week aimed at keeping the American people safe, as his temporary ban on travel from...

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February 16, 2017

Commitment to the two-state solution is a formality

News of Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to “back down” from his public position support on the two-state solution at the request of the (far-right) Jewish Home Party’s ministers in order...

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February 16, 2017

Taking a shot at art in Syria

A Syrian man has been turning ammunition into art for over four years. By piecing together empty bullet casings on leather belts at his work shop in the town...

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February 16, 2017

MSF investigation holds Russia, Syria responsible for hospital bombing

Syrian and Russian war planes were responsible for attacks on two hospitals in Syria, an investigation by Medicines Sans Frontieres has revealed. On 15 February 2016, an airstrike hit...

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February 16, 2017

Women and children killed in Saudi strike on funeral in Yemen

Nine women and a child were killed in another Saudi-led airstrike on a funeral near Yemen’s capital city last night, adding pressure on the Saudi-led coalition to end its...

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