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December 21, 2016

Amnesty slams Israel’s detention of Palestinian human rights defender

Amnesty International has slammed the renewed detention by Israeli occupation authorities of Palestinian “human rights defender” Hasan Safadi. Safadi, 25, has already been held without charge or trial (so-called...

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December 21, 2016

Tunisia to prosecute 10 in connection with drone expert murder

Tunisian prosecutors have opened a judicial investigation against 10 people who are being held in custody for the murder of engineer Mohammed Al-Zawari. Drone expert Al-Zawari, 49, was gunned...

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December 21, 2016

Body of Arab-Israeli teen found in a park

The body of a 16-year-old Arab-Israeli was discovered yesterday morning in a park near the Arab town of Kisra Sumei in the western Galilee of northern Israel, Israeli media...

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December 21, 2016

Russia jails blogger for criticising Syria intervention

An international NGO that promotes press freedom worldwide slammed the Russian judiciary yesterday for jailing a blogger over criticisms he levelled against President Vladimir Putin’s decision to intervene in...

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December 21, 2016

Lieberman: Assassinated Tunisian drone expert ‘not a peace activist’

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman addressed the killing last week of a Tunisian engineer linked to Hamas, saying that Israel “will continue to do in the best possible way...

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December 21, 2016

Algeria’s Justice and Development Front, Ennahda to merge

Algeria’s Justice and Development Front and Ennahda movement signed a merger agreement yesterday. The head of the Justice and Development party, Abdullah Jaballah, signed the agreement on behalf of...

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December 21, 2016

Egypt and Saudi Arabia halt cooperation agreements

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have halted or delayed the implementation of a majority of the agreements signed between the two countries, Lebanon’s Al-Khabar has reported. Citing a diplomatic source,...

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December 21, 2016

13 local journalists were killed in Iraq in 2016

As many as 13 Iraqi journalists were killed and 179 others were attacked across Iraq during 2016, a rights group has revealed in a new report. Most of those...

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December 21, 2016

Israeli parliamentarians face limits for visits to Palestinian prisoners

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has approved a limit to the number of visits that parliamentarians (MKs) can make to Palestinian security prisoners, Ynet News has reported. The limit was...

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December 21, 2016

Winter solstice in Egypt

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