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December 3, 2016

Fighting the taboo of disability in the Arab world

To those familiar with Arab culture, it is no secret that the topic of disability remains a taboo. When speaking about disability in the Arab world, generally, the topic...
December 3, 2016

The case against Tony Blair is more compelling than his case was for invading Iraq

The British Labour party voted down a motion seeking to hold former UK prime minister Tony Blair accountable for misleading parliament during the run up to the 2003 Iraq...

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December 3, 2016

Saudi Arabia cancels fees for Hajj, Umrah visas

King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has issued a royal decree that will cancel Hajj and Umrah visa fees starting from this year, a member of the High...

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December 3, 2016

Germany funds wastewater treatment plant in Gaza

German Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Gerd Muller placed the cornerstone of a new wastewater treatment plant in central Gaza, Anadolu reported yesterday. The German minister arrived in Gaza through Israel’s Erez border...
December 3, 2016

Kuwait arranges treatment for displaced Iraqis

Kuwait has announced it is ready to arrange treatment for those injured during the ongoing military operations in Mosul, Iraq, Kuwait’s General Consul to Erbil Omar Al-Kanderi said. According...

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December 3, 2016

Egypt is giant prison, activists banned from travel say

Azza Soliman was due to board a plane to attend a conference in Jordan when security officials at Cairo airport turned her away, saying a court order banned her...

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December 3, 2016

3,500 ‘illegal workers’ leave Qatar as amnesty ends

Over 3,500 undocumented workers have left Qatar under the amnesty scheme set up by the government. In September, the Ministry of Interior announced that it would give a grace...

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December 3, 2016

Father condemns ‘inhumane’ PKK after baby is killed

The father of a 4-month-old boy killed in a PKK bomb blast condemned the perpetrators as “not human beings” on Friday. “We lost our baby,” Hasan Eringin said. “I...

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December 3, 2016

Russia soon to ratify natural gas pipeline with Turkey

The Russian government will submit the agreement on the TurkStream project between Russia and Turkey to the Russian parliament for ratification, according to Leonid Slutksy, chairman of the State...

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December 3, 2016

Aleppo official: ‘Those we save today die tomorrow’

Civilians are fleeing from one part of opposition-held eastern Aleppo to another amid a flurry of attacks by the Syrian regime, according to a local civil defense official. “Those...

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