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  • June 8, 2016

    Yemeni official: Saudi Arabia handed over 54 child soldiers captured in fighting with Houthis

    Saudi Arabia has handed over 54 child prisoners to the Yemeni government who had fought with Houthi rebels last year, a Yemeni official said on Monday. The source, who...

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  • June 8, 2016

    UK renews travel warning to areas in Turkey

    The British Foreign Ministry yesterday renewed its warning to nationals to avoid travel to certain parts of Turkey. In a statement the ministry said that the bomb attack in...

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  • June 8, 2016

    Iraq dismisses intelligence chief, seven senior officials

    The Iraqi Cabinet yesterday dismissed intelligence chief Zuhair Al-Gharbawi and the seven other officials, a cabinet source said. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Anadolu Agency:...

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  • June 8, 2016

    Assad vows to continue war on terror

    Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad yesterday vowed to continue what he called his country’s war on terrorism. “Syria faces economic terrorism, car bombs, massacres and missiles,” Assad said in a...

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  • June 7, 2016

    11 killed in Istanbul car blast

      Eleven people have been killed and 36 injured in a bomb attack targeting a Turkish police vehicle in central Istanbul, the city’s governor said. The explosion took place...

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  • June 7, 2016

    Lieberman: Too early to ask about promise to assassinate Haniyeh

    A week after he took office as Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman evaded a question about his commitment to assassinate former deputy head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, within...

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  • June 7, 2016

    Why is Europe so reluctant to challenge Israel’s destruction of EU-funded projects?

    A new report issued this month by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) is called, “Squandered Aid: Israel’s repetitive destruction of EU-funded projects in Palestine”. The report imparts...

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  • June 7, 2016

    Lieberman at the top of the military in Israel

    Avigdor Lieberman is a Jew from the former Soviet Union; he was born in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova. With his appointment as Defence Minister his wish has...

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  • June 7, 2016

    Egyptian court adjourns trial of 536 defendants

    The Assiut Military Court yesterday postponed the trial of 536 defendants accused of involvement in riots and violence in the north of the Minya province in 2013. The case...

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  • June 7, 2016

    #UN

    The United Nations has come under a great deal of criticism in the Arab World in the past week after it issued a report criticising the Saudi-led coalition’s offensive...

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