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June 24, 2016

Lebanon’s parliament fails to elect president for 41st time

Lebanon’s parliament failed again on Thursday to elect a new president for the country because a quorum could not be reached in the session. Nabih Berri, the parliament’s speaker,...

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June 24, 2016

Libya’s Parliament Speaker: Saudi wants to hold a meeting for Libyan tribes

Saudi Arabia is working to hold a meeting between Libyan tribes, Libyan Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh said. “Saudi Arabia is trying to bridge the gap in viewpoints and reconcile differences...

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June 24, 2016

German navy to take part in efforts to stop flow of weapons into Libya

The German government has decided to expand the role of the German navy in the Mediterranean Sea to include efforts to stop arms heading to Daesh militants in Libya....

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June 24, 2016

Report: 489 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment in Israeli jails

The number of Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment in Israeli jails has increased to 489 after Israel’s Salem Military Court issued new life sentences against four prisoners from...

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June 24, 2016

Abbas refuses to meet Israeli president in Brussels

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected a European proposal to meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin while the two are in Brussels, Belgium, Palestinian and Israeli sources said....

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June 24, 2016

Jordan responds to Amnesty International’s call to open borders

Jordan has called on Amnesty International to put pressure on the international community to help with the large number of refugees present on Jordanian borders and receive more of them. Amnesty...

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June 24, 2016

Purgatory in the Holy Land

In Mehran Kamrava’s powerful new book, The Impossibility of Palestine, he presents a penetrating and pessimistic overview of the prospects for a future Palestinian state. His thesis is simple:...

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June 24, 2016

The fall of the Egyptian judiciary

Accusations that ousted President Mohamed Morsi passed state secrets to Qatar and his subsequent trial were a joke. It is a measure of how bad things have got when...

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June 24, 2016

Egypt ‘losing its sense of humour’

Egyptian authorities should drop their investigation into six young men who posted satirical videos commenting on Egypt’s politics on YouTube and release four of them, Human Rights Watch said in...

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June 24, 2016

Abbas: PA accepted state on less than a quarter of historic Palestine

The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said he had accepted the establishment of a Palestinian state on less than a quarter of historic Palestine in order to bring...

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