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January 4, 2017

Car bomb wounds 4 UN guards in Somalia’s capital

A car bomb wounded at least four UN guards when it exploded near a United Nations compound in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu today, police said. Al-Qaeda-allied Al Shabaab insurgents claimed...

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January 4, 2017

Iraq’s Maliki: Shia militia will fight in Syria if necessary

Iraqi Vice President and Secretary-General of the Islamic Dawa Party Nouri Al-Maliki said the country’s Shia militias, the Popular Mobilisation Forces, will travel to Syrian territories “if the need...

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January 4, 2017

Calls for Israel to ‘punish’ UN

Israeli authorities have called on the government to “punish” the UN’s operations in Jerusalem in retaliation for the passing of an UN Security Council resolution which condemned Israeli settlements...

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January 4, 2017

Abbas receives Israeli opposition in Ramallah

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday received an Israeli convoy from the opposition faction Meretz at his office in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, the Anadolu...

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January 4, 2017

Tunisia sentences man to death for murder and rape of infant

An Army Corporal accused of murdering a four-year-old child has been sentenced to death by firearm, the lawyer of the victim’s family confirmed. “The Permanent Military Court of Tunis,...

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January 4, 2017

Egypt refuses to release April 6 co-founder

The Egyptian interior ministry has refused to release the co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, Ahmad Maher, claiming he is to be investigated for other charges, sources close...

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January 4, 2017

Activist who filmed Hebron shooting ‘fears for his life’

Emad Abu Shamsiyya, a Palestinian activist who filmed the point-blank shooting of Abd Al-Fatah Al-Sharif by an Israeli soldier in Hebron last March said he “feared for his life”...

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January 4, 2017

Israel releases billionaire from house arrest

Billionaire businessman Beny Steinmetz was released from house arrest without charge today, his mining firm BSG Resources (BSGR) and an Israeli court spokeswoman said, following his detention over bribery...

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January 4, 2017

Egypt under Arab nationalism and Al-Sisi

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Arab nationalist Egypt taught us the concepts of nation and citizenship; the concepts of political freedom; and that international companies exploited our petroleum and...

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January 4, 2017

Israel sentences Palestinian children to 2 years

An Israeli court in Jerusalem today sentenced two 13-year-old Palestinian boys from occupied East Jerusalem to two years in an Israeli juvenile detention centre after the two were charged...

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