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December 3, 2014

Washington refuses to blacklist Muslim Brotherhood

The US has refused to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation, stressing that there is insufficient credible proof that it has given up its decades-long commitment to refusing...

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December 3, 2014

Jordanian PM: Jewish state bill is 'dangerous'

Jordan will never accept the “dangerous” Israeli Jewish state bill, the country’s Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Nosour said yesterday. The Anadolu Agency reported Al-Nosour saying, during a parliamentarian meeting, that...

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December 3, 2014

Tunisia's parliament holds first session, Marzouki absent

Questions were raised in Tunisia’s local media and social networking sites over why President Moncef Marzouki was not invited to attend the new parliament’s inaugural session held yesterday. The...

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December 3, 2014

Netanyahu dissolves the Knesset, seeks early elections

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his finance and justice ministers and announced he wants to dissolve parliament triggering early general elections, the Anadolu Agency reported. The Israeli Knesset...

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December 3, 2014

Funding crisis threatens aid for millions of refugees

Since the uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad began three years ago, more than 3.2 million people have fled Syria; a further 7.6 million have been internally displaced. It is...

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December 3, 2014

The cover-up committee

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Egypt had a “fact-finding” committee looking into the Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda Square massacres. The problem is that this committee was put together by the...

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December 3, 2014

Egypt to demolish all houses 1km from Gaza border

Egyptian armed forces yesterday started to count houses within one kilometre of the Gaza border ahead of their demolition, witnesses told Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr. This is the second stage...

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December 2, 2014

Israeli Prime Minister sacks finance and justice ministers

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday sacked his finance and justice ministers, writing an end to his coalition government. Netanyahu directed Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelbit to issue a...

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December 2, 2014

French parliament calls on government to recognise Palestine

French Lawmakers have voted in favour of a resolution calling on the French Government to recognise the state of Palestine. The resolution was adopted today by 339 votes. A...

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December 2, 2014

UN World Food Programme to suspend food aid to 1.7 million Syrian refugees

The United Nations World Food Programme said on Monday that due to lack of funding it will stop providing food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon,...

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