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May 10, 2014

The Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian Refugees in Syria: Where Do We Go From Here?

Palestinian refugees in Syria are facing difficult and tragic conditions, as a result of the uprising there and the conflict between the regime and the opposition. Of the 160...

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May 10, 2014

Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam is making waves in Egypt

When the Merowe Dam in Sudan was built Ali Askouri, his family and their community were flooded out of their homes 80 kilometres from where it was being constructed...

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May 10, 2014

Scandal of billion dollar deals between Saudi Arabia and Veolia

Veolia is a French company specialising in environmental work in the fields of water, recycling, energy and transportation. The company has recently had a lot of media coverage given...

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May 10, 2014

Pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea

The agreement signed by Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority to build a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea came as a shock to many politicians...

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May 10, 2014

Palestinian cries fall on deaf ears

Thousands of people are besieged in the two square kilometre Yarmouk camp. Filippo Grandi, the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near...

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May 10, 2014

Syria's art in exile is roaring

A Scream, a child in his eternal sleep, chains, passports with countless stamps, car wrecks, bombed-out buildings and numerous small models of corpses glued on to an empty canvas....

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May 10, 2014

Syria: New deadly cluster bomb attacks

Syrian government forces are using a powerful type of cluster munition rocket not seen before in the conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. The new use of cluster munitions...

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May 10, 2014

The body as the battlefield: victims of Syria's brutal war strategy

The United Nations has released a new report documenting the evidence that children in Syria have been subject to grave sexual abuses in government detention, recruited to fight with...

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May 10, 2014

Mediterranean gas fields: potential spark for regional conflicts

Natural gas resources in the Mediterranean Sea will become a principal reason for conflicts in the region between Israel and its allies on the one hand and the neighbouring...

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May 10, 2014

Syria's war cultivates a state policy to torture women and children

The systematic use of torture in Syria is practiced in the dark. The world is aware of its existence only through anecdotes, reporting that represents the tip of the...

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