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January 31, 2017

Houthis bomb UN building in Saudi Arabia’s Dhahran Al-Janoub

The Houthi militia in Yemen bombed a building that belongs to the United Nations in Dhahran Al-Janoub, in Asir Region in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Defence Ministry announced on...

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January 31, 2017

More than $900,000 raised to rebuild fire-ravaged Texas mosque

More than $900,000 has been raised in an online fundraiser for a south Texas mosque destroyed by fire over the weekend, exceeding the amount needed to rebuild the place...

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January 31, 2017

Quebec mosque shooting suspect charged with murdering six people

A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said...

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January 31, 2017

UK asylum seeker housing a vermin-infested ‘disgrace’, lawmakers say

Infested with vermin, furnished with dirty carpets, broken beds and rotten sofas – some of the accommodation Britain provides to asylum seekers is a “disgrace”, lawmakers said on Tuesday....

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January 31, 2017

Egypt: Turkish businessmen willing to invest in Egypt

Turkish businessmen are planning to pump new investments in Egypt worth $5 billion in the coming period, the president of the Turkish-Egyptian Businessmen Association (TÜMİAD) Atillia Ataseven said on Monday....

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January 31, 2017

Syria “safe zones” possible if Damascus agrees, says Russian foreign minister

Russia may support the US initiative to establish the so-called ‘safe zones’ for refugees in Syria, the Moscow-based RT News reported on Monday, quoting the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov....

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January 30, 2017

Iraq asks US to ‘reconsider’ controversial Muslim ban

Iraq asked the United States to reconsider the travel ban on its citizens today, taking a more diplomatic line than the Iraqi parliament and other Shia clerics who demanded...

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January 30, 2017

Israeli planes spray herbicides near Gaza farmland

Israeli authorities have resumed spraying herbicides along the border fence with the Gaza Strip, causing damage to Palestinian crops. According to NGO Gisha, on 23 January last week, “civilian...

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January 30, 2017

Netanyahu refuses to apologise to Mexico over support for Trump’s wall

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to apologise for his tweet in support of US President Donald Trump’s planned wall on the Mexican border, despite being urged to...

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January 30, 2017

Israel postpones vote on bill legalising settler homes on Palestinian land

Israel’s government postponed a vote in parliament today on a bill retroactively legalising about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land, a measure the attorney-general has said...

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