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October 27, 2016

UN peace plan may seek to sideline exiled Yemeni president

A UN peace proposal to end a 19-month war in Yemen appears aimed at sidelining exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and setting up a government of less divisive...

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October 27, 2016

Heathrow expansion highlights the injustice of Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes

The big story dominating the news this week in Britain is the proposal for a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport. This is a controversial plan which will lead...

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October 27, 2016

Clashes in Yemen’s Marib province continue

Yemeni army units backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition attacked positions held by Houthi rebels in a strategic province east of the capital Sana’a yesterday. A three-day ceasefire aimed...

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October 27, 2016

Kirkuk: Kurdish authorities demolish Arab refugee homes

Activists and Iraqi human rights organisations have confirmed that largely Arab refugees are being forcibly deported from the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk by Kurdish authorities who are also...

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October 27, 2016

Police: Jailed Al-Qaeda leader killed in Yemen’s Lahij

Police in Yemen’s southwestern Lahij province today announced that an Al-Qaeda leader had been killed by an “unknown assailant” while in police custody. According to a police statement, Abu...

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October 27, 2016

Israeli demolition orders met with clashes in Bedouin village

Clashes broke out between Israeli police and local youth in the Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj in Israel’s Negev desert yesterday, after Israeli police affixed demolition orders on some...

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October 27, 2016

‘Egypt going after Brotherhood members in Sudan’

Egyptian security services have been working with their counterparts in neighbouring Sudan to capture Muslim Brotherhood members who fled Egypt, the UAE’s 24.ae has claimed. According to the website,...

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October 27, 2016

Syria: Turkish forces to move on Manbij, Raqqa

Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria will target the town of Manbij, recently snatched from Daesh by Kurdish-led forces, and the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa, President Recep Tayyip...

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October 27, 2016

Israel is a rogue state; here’s why

By any reasonable assessment, any state which treats international laws and conventions with contempt, flouts them with increasing regularity and maintains a brutal military occupation into the bargain has...

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October 27, 2016

Israel doubles demolitions of Palestinian structures

Multiple demolitions of Palestinian properties yesterday in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem brought the total for the year to 166, an Israeli NGO has reported. According to Ir Amim, Israeli authorities...

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