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October 6, 2016

Egyptian women blast MP calling for mandatory virginity tests

An Egyptian female advocacy group have attacked comments made by parliamentarian Elhamy Agina who called for virginity tests to be made mandatory to women applying for university. Head of...

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October 6, 2016

42 countries agree on controls to export, use of armed drones

The United States and more than 40 other countries issued a declaration yesterday laying out principles they said should govern the export and use of armed drones to ensure...
October 6, 2016

Syrian army warns opposition fighters to leave eastern Aleppo

Syria’s army has offered those who wish to leave Aleppo the opportunity to do so or risk an “inevitable fate”. A statement issued late yesterday said the army had...

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October 6, 2016

Anti-Daesh Sunnis bombed in strike coordinated by Iraqi government

The international US-led coalition against Daesh has confirmed in comments to MEMO that coalition airstrikes that led to the deaths of 21 Sunni Arab anti-Daesh fighters yesterday were conducted...

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October 6, 2016

Textbook withdrawn after referencing Palestinian resistance as ‘terrorists’

The International School of Choueifat (ISC) in Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan have been forced to withdraw textbooks which describe the Palestinian resistance as terrorists, Al-Araby...

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October 6, 2016

Bomb kills at least 25 Turkish-backed rebels in north Syria – monitors, witnesses

A bomb blast at a Syria-Turkey border crossing killed at least 25 Turkish-backed opposition fighters and wounded dozens more today, witnesses and a monitoring group reported. The blast took...

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October 6, 2016

German lawmakers visit Turkey’s Incirlik air base after row ends

A delegation of German lawmakers visited Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey yesterday, the Anadolu Agency said, defusing a months-long row that had prevented them meeting troops serving in...

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October 6, 2016

Two Russian warships head to Mediterranean

Two warships from the Russian Black Sea Fleet are heading to the Mediterranean to reinforce Russia’s presence in the region, the Anadolu Agency reported Russian media saying yesterday. Anadolu...

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October 6, 2016

Unarmed women on a small boat are now a threat to Israel’s security?

First of all, our concern must be for the safety of the women on board the Zaytoun, which was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli navy yesterday. Israel,...

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October 6, 2016

A preference for bureaucracy over humanity

Further evidence that justice has been relegated behind political manipulation can be found in the current visit to Israel and the West Bank by a delegation from the International...

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