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June 15, 2016

Gunmen attack Palestinian minister’s car

Gunmen yesterday seized the car of Palestinian Social Development Minister, Ibrahim Al-Sha’er, near the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem. The attackers blocked the car’s path and opened fire....

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June 15, 2016

New bill gives Sisi power to appoint editors

Egypt’s Media and Culture Committee yesterday approved a bill giving President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi the right to form a new High Press Council, the Anadolu Agency reported. The proposal...

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June 15, 2016

Rights group: Algeria covering majority of expenses for 200,000 refugees and immigrants

An Algerian human rights organisation said on Tuesday that the country is covering the majority of expenses for more than 200,000 secret refugees and immigrants coming from several Arab and African...

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June 15, 2016

Erdogan rejects formation of political entity on Syrian-Turkish borders

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yesterday renewed his rejection of the establishment of any political entity on the Turkish-Syrian borders, Al-Resalah newspaper reported. “We will reject with all our...

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June 15, 2016

Bahrain shuts down main Shia opposition group

A Bahraini court on Tuesday announced a verdict to shut down the Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, the main Shia opposition group, and freeze all its activities. The Bahraini...

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June 15, 2016

Egypt to build 11th prison in less than 3 years

Egyptian authorities are to build a new prison in Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, the third to be built this year and the eleventh since the military coup three years...

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June 15, 2016

PA slams appointment of Israel as head of UN legal committee

The appointment of Israel as the head of an UN legal committee is a slap for international law, the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday. In a statement, the...

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June 15, 2016

EU: 95% of water in Gaza ‘unfit for human use’

Some 95 per cent of water in the Gaza Strip is “unfit for human use”, the EU warned yesterday. Speaking at the inauguration of the Strip’s desalination plant, EU...

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June 15, 2016

Iraq lifts order to seize Kuwaiti citizens’ properties

The Iraqi cabinet on Tuesday decided to lift an order to seize properties owned by Kuwaiti citizens in Iraq imposed by the former regime more than three decades ago....

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June 15, 2016

Arab League rejects Netanyahu’s calls to revise Arab Peace Initiative

The Arab League has rejected the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposition to revise the Arab Peace Initiative as a precondition to accepting it. “This is completely unacceptable because...

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