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December 22, 2015

Yemeni army heading to Sanaa

Yemen’s national army and the popular Yemeni resistance forces have gained control of the mountain ranges in the east of Sanaa, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. According to Palestinian newspaper...

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December 22, 2015

Amnesty asks Israel to end detention of Palestinian children

Amnesty International has sent a letter to the Israeli Public Prosecutor asking him to stop the administrative detention of Palestinian children, Arab48.com reported on Monday. Three minors were actually...

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December 22, 2015

Health ministry confirms 4,000 patients in Gaza need urgent treatment abroad

The Palestinian ministry of health announced on Monday that 4,000 patients in the besieged Gaza Strip are in urgent need of treatment abroad. Spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra called on the...

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December 22, 2015

‘UN should probe Israel’s refusal to release bodies of dead Palestinians’

There is no legal or ethical justification for Israel to keep the bodies of 50 dead Palestinians in custody, the Minister for Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe said yesterday, adding...

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December 22, 2015

Negotiations to release last eight Algerian detainees in Guantanamo

Algeria and the US are undergoing negotiations to release the final eight Algerian detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Louh announced yesterday. “We are continuing with...

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December 22, 2015

Saudi condemns Houthi ceasefire breach

Saudi Arabia yesterday condemned Yemen’s Houthi rebels’ violation of the ceasefire saying these acts do not serve the efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Yemeni conflict. The...

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December 22, 2015

Official: Abadi agreed to deployment of US ground troops in Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi agreed to deploy US ground troops in Iraq, spokesman for the US-led international coalition, Colonel Steve Warren, announced yesterday. “Any operation or forces deployed...

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December 21, 2015

Fatah’s upcoming conference and the Dahlan phenomenon

The information available from within Fatah suggests that the committees concerned with the conference are preparing to hold the movement’s seventh general conference soon, after it was postponed in...

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December 21, 2015

The Syrian quagmire

When Russia began its campaign of airstrikes in Syria in September, Vladimir Putin said that his country would only target “terrorists”, primarily jihadist militants from the Daesh group. Yet...

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December 21, 2015

Denmark adopts laws that, paradoxically, threaten to erode the rule of law

The public debates on Denmark’s newly-approved asylum policies are red hot. One of the new economic moves to curb asylum “pressure” is a controversial plan to strip refugees of...

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