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February 9, 2017

4 injured in reported shooting, stabbing attacks in Israel

A 19-year-old Palestinian from the Nablus area village of Beita in the northern occupied West Bank was arrested late this afternoon at a market in the central Israeli town...

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February 9, 2017

UK scraps scheme to take in lone child refugees

The British government today defended its decision to end a programme to take in unaccompanied child refugees less than a year after its introduction, saying the scheme encouraged human...

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February 9, 2017

UN seeks $2.1bn to save Yemen from famine

The United Nations yesterday appealed for $2.1 billion to provide urgent food and humanitarian aid to save some 12 million Yemenis threatened with famine after two years of war...

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February 9, 2017

Russia warns Iran could withdraw from nuclear deal

The Russian Foreign Ministry warned that Iran could withdraw from the nuclear deal due to the United States’ anti-Iran rhetoric. The ministry said this scenario would signal the failure...

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February 9, 2017

The botched raid on Yemen is a sign of things to come from Trump’s America

Donald Trump’s first military raid into the Middle East was, even after the most generous application of “alternative facts”, a full-blown disaster. If we are to believe the US...

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February 9, 2017

Algeria’s Jaballah: Participation in elections not proof of regime’s approval

The head of Algeria’s Justice and Development party, Sheikh Abdullah Jaballah said the Islamist parties’ participation in the upcoming elections is not proof of an endorsement from the current...

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February 9, 2017

Hungary ready to build second fence to keep refugees out

Hungary is ready to build a second line fencing on its southern border to keep out migrants if the situation worsens this year or next, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s...

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February 9, 2017

100-year-old Bedouin woman homeless after Israel’s demolitions

Israeli forces demolished homes in two Bedouin villages in the Negev yesterday leaving a 100-year-old Arab woman homeless. Israeli bulldozers, escorted by Israeli police, demolished the house of 100-year-old...

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February 9, 2017

Several countries contacted Hamas to get information about Israeli captives

Senior Hamas leadership figure Musa Abu Marzouk said in a statement released on the Palestinian movement’s website that several countries had contacted Hamas to get information about the Israeli...

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February 9, 2017

Israel approves 181 settlement units in Jerusalem

Permission was granted for the construction of 181 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem yesterday. The Local Planning and Building Committee of the Israeli municipality in Jerusalem approved the...

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