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February 13, 2017

Ministerial committee approves Israeli bill banning Muslim call to prayer

Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved an amendment to a bill on Sunday banning the Muslim call to prayer. It is now ready to go before the Knesset for...

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February 13, 2017

Is the PLO still the sole, legitimate representative of the Palestinians?

The main Palestinian secular movement, Fatah, which dominates the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) accused regional powers on Sunday evening of supporting its Islamic rival Hamas to carry out a...

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February 13, 2017

UAE threatens to freeze investment in Egypt over unpaid debts

UAE’s Dana Gas said it will freeze its investment activities in Egypt because of delays in obtaining payments owed to it there. The company said in a statement that...

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February 13, 2017

Calls for review of Morocco’s electoral and party system

A Moroccan professor of political sciences, Dr Abdul Ali Al-Hoor, has called for a review of the country’s electoral system in order to produce strong parties that would enable...

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February 13, 2017

Israeli cabinet divided over two-state solution

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure from his ruling coalition government to withdraw his support for the two-state solution during his upcoming meeting with US President Donald...

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February 13, 2017

UAE minister confirms there will be no income tax

UAE Minister of State for Financial Affairs Obaid Humaid Al Tayer said Sunday that his country has no plans to impose a personal income tax on UAE citizens or...

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February 13, 2017

Israeli president slams land grab law

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has slammed the Regularisation Law which enables the state to expropriate private Palestinian land where settlements not even legal under Israeli law have been built....

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February 13, 2017

Egypt’s foreign minister faces sack in cabinet reshuffle

Egyptian government sources familiar with the imminent cabinet reshuffle have revealed that Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will, most likely, not be included the new cabinet. The sources revealed to...

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February 13, 2017

For Arab revolutionaries, there is no choice but to continue the fight

After nearly six years of battling the regime, its Iranian allies and sectarian militias, the prospect of change in Syria seems farther away than ever before. It is certainly...

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February 13, 2017

Egypt removes disputed Red Sea islands from primary education curriculums

Egypt’s education ministry has deleted reference to the disputed Red Sea islands, Tiran and Sanafir, from the Grade 6’s geography curriculum for the year 2016-17, a ministry official revealed....

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