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August 2, 2016

Iraqi parliament speaker accuses defence minister of attempting to thwart questioning

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jubouri has accused Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi of attempting to thwart the parliament’s questioning session over a corrupt arms deal through unfounded accusations against MPs....

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August 2, 2016

UN concerned over Iraqi PM’s committee to speed up executions

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein has expressed deep concern about the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s decision to form a committee tasked with...

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August 1, 2016

Israel denies Gaza footballers entry to West Bank

The Palestinian Cup final was postponed on Saturday after Israeli authorities prevented several footballers from leaving the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing, the Palestinian Football Association announced on...

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August 1, 2016

Palestinian teen suffers broken hand following arrest

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy sustained a broken hand and bruising after being assaulted and detained by undercover Israeli police officers in the Issawiya neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Fadi...

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August 1, 2016

Zoabi: ‘Israel has succeeded to divide the Palestinian issue’

Haneen Zoabi is the first female Arab citizen of Israel who is of Palestinian descent to serve in the Israeli Knesset. Serving since 2009, Zoabi represents the National Democratic...

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August 1, 2016

Iraq: Daesh leaders fleeing Mosul for Syria

A number of Daesh leaders have sold their properties and fled Mosul with their families heading for Syria ahead of the Iraqi government’s recapture of the city, the country’s...

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August 1, 2016

‘Mahmoud Darwish: Literature and the politics of Palestinian identity’

Far from accentuating the glorification that is synonymous with Mahmoud Darwish and his beautiful poetry, the new biography “Mahmoud Darwish: literature and the politics of Palestinian identity” by Muna...

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August 1, 2016

Unanswered questions remain on anniversary Dawabsheh family arson attack

Difficult questions remain unanswered a year after the deadly arson attack that killed all but one of the Dawabsheh family. Five-year-old Ahmed Dawabsheh is the only survivor of the fire...

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August 1, 2016

Corruption rife in Egyptian ministries of state

An Egyptian NGO has recorded at least 1,102 examples of corruption in the country’s ministries of state between July 2015 and June this year. According to Partners for Transparency...

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August 1, 2016

Erdogan wants president to control intelligence and army

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wants the country’s national intelligence agency and the army to be put under the direct control of the President of the Republic....

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