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July 1, 2016

Italy halts supply of warplane parts to Egypt over Regeni row

The Italian senate voted on Wednesday to halt supplying Egypt with spare parts for F-16 fighter jets in protest against the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni earlier this...

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July 1, 2016

Fallujah: Victory or humiliation?

Despite many premature declarations of victory, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi held aloft the Green Zone-era Iraqi flag in Fallujah last Sunday. He immediately began talking about the next...

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July 1, 2016

13 killed in multiple attacks in Baghdad

Thirteen people were killed in multiple attacks across the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday, a police officer said. In the first incident, six people were killed and 22 others...

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July 1, 2016

Fearing demos, Egypt shuts Tahrir Square metro station

Egyptian authorities on Thursday shut Cairo’s Tahrir Square metro station, fearing possible protests marking the third anniversary of the June 30, 2013 demonstrations that led to the ouster of...

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July 1, 2016

Lawfare on the run again

Israel’s strategy of “lawfare” has once again hit the rocks. This strategy is the attempt to use courts and spurious legal actions around the world to attack, sabotage and...

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July 1, 2016

The final judgement of Tony Blair has to be nigh

With the Chilcot Inquiry due to publish its long-awaited report on 6 July, an early indication of what the findings might be have been aired by BBC Panorama’s “Iraq...

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July 1, 2016

EU proposes €2 billion for refugees in Turkey by August

The European Commission on Thursday proposed an additional €1.4 billion for refugees in Turkey, following a meeting in Brussels of the group’s steering committee. The committee was established to...

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July 1, 2016

Fallacies of the Palestinian national reconciliation

The Palestinian national reconciliation has been a media interest since the bloody split between Fatah and Hamas in 2007. In Gaza and the West Bank, the reconciliation, once a...

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July 1, 2016

Aleppo’s humanitarian crisis

As the Syrian civil war grinds through its sixth year, Aleppo has become the focus of intensified fighting. Once Syria’s economic hub, Aleppo is now divided between government forces...

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July 1, 2016

Does ‘new anti-Semitism’ provide an opportunity for Palestinian advocacy?

The anti-Semitism row within the Labour Party is part of a broader Israeli campaign which asserts that opposition to Zionism or the “right of Israel to exist” – which...

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