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November 20, 2014

Lebanese parliament fails to elect a new president for 15th time

On Wednesday, the Lebanese parliament failed to choose a president for the country for the fifteenth time, extending Lebanon’s political crisis. According to Rassd news agency, Parliamentary Speaker Nabi...

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November 20, 2014

Erdogan: People in the Middle East must control their own fate

People of the Middle East and North Africa should control their own fate, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday. Speaking in the Algerian capital Algiers during the first...

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November 20, 2014

Libya's disputed parliament threatens to close Tripoli airspace

The Libyan parliament based in Tobruk threatened on Wednesday to close the airspace controlled by the National Salvation Government in Tripoli, Anadolu news agency reported. In a statement, the...

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November 20, 2014

Egypt police arrest 25 protesters

Twenty-five Egyptians who took part in a gathering to commemorate the Mohamed Mahmoud Street events were arrested, the country’s interior ministry said yesterday. Some 400 people took part in...

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November 20, 2014

Israeli minister backs plan to ban Arab workers

Israeli Minister of Housing Uri Ariel expressed support for sacking Arab workers from their jobs and for the mayor of Ashkelon’s decision to prevent Arabs from working in the...

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November 20, 2014

Marzouki calls Egyptian businessman Sawiris an 'anti-revolutionary'

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has accused the Egyptian businessman and founder of the Free Egyptians Party, Naguib Sawiris, of supporting the anti-revolutionary current in the Arab countries, Anadolu news...

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November 19, 2014

'Terrorist' list destroys integrity of UAE

The first thing that catches the eye about the newly-released United Arab Emirates list of 83 “terrorist organisations” is its broad sweep. It contains Islamic institutions from across Europe,...

Commentary & Analysis
November 19, 2014

Although far from perfect, Tunisia's achievements should not be sniffed at

The popular uprisings that swept across the Middle East in 2011 started in Tunisia. When the long-term President, Zine El-Abedine Ben Ali, was toppled after weeks of popular protests,...

Blog
November 19, 2014

Combining contradictions does not work

During this month, perhaps on the 29th day, which marks the anniversary of the decision to divide Palestine and is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people,...

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November 19, 2014

Shock and horror at killings, but not when victims are Palestinians

I wonder how many people have heard of Mohammed Siyam? While the Western media went into overdrive over the tragedy of the synagogue killings in Jerusalem, little Mohammed lay...

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