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October 16, 2016

Israel PM vows national service ban for B’Tselem over UN row

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to bar national service volunteers from joining human rights group B’Tselem after the organisation angered him with their testimony at the UN...

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October 16, 2016

Israel closes border crossings for Jewish holiday

Israel has closed the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. A military spokesperson said crossings between the West Bank and Gaza to...

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October 16, 2016

Britain sends new military training mission to Tunisia to counter Daesh

Britain has sent 40 military personnel to Tunisia to provide training aimed at helping the North African country prevent the spread of Daesh fighters from neighbouring Libya, the British...

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October 16, 2016

Two Americans held in Yemen released and flown to Oman

Two American prisoners held captive by Yemen Houthi rebels have been released and taken to neighbouring Oman after Omani officials mediated their release, US Secretary of State John Kerry...

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October 16, 2016

US warship targeted again in apparent failed missile attack off Yemen

A US Navy destroyer was again targeted in the Red Sea in an apparent failed missile attack launched from the coast of Yemen, a US admiral said on Saturday....

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October 16, 2016

Explosion hits part of southern Turkish city of Gaziantep

A suspected suicide bomber killed three police officers and wounded at least eight people in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep on Sunday during a police raid on what...

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October 16, 2016

Russia: All talks participants agreed Syrians must decide own future

Russia’s foreign ministry said all participants in talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Saturday had agreed that Syrians alone should decide their future through inclusive dialogue, and the country should...

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October 16, 2016

Syrian rebels seize Dabiq from Daesh

Syrian rebels backed by Turkey captured the symbolically important village of Dabiq in northwestern Syria from Daesh early on Sunday after clashes, Ahmed Osman, head of the Sultan Murad...

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October 16, 2016

Saudi replaces Iraq envoy who riled Shia militias

Saudi Arabia on Sunday replaced its envoy to Iraq whose comments about Iranian involvement in Iraqi affairs led to diplomatic tension with Baghdad. Thamer al-Sabhan in 2015 became the...

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October 16, 2016

The West is shirking its responsibility to refugees and missing out

The recent Amnesty International reports on which countries take the most refugees is somehow both shocking yet totally predictable at the same time. What is most shocking about it...

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