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January 15, 2015

Iran: Respecting Muslim values fundamental to talks

Communities must respect each other’s sanctities and values in order to engage in meaningful dialogue, the Anadolu Agency reported the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying yesterday....

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January 15, 2015

Netanyahu slams Erdogan’s Paris rally remarks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday demanded the international community condemn Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks on Israel’s participation in Paris’s anti-terrorism rally on Sunday, the Anadolu Agency...

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January 15, 2015

PA and PLO terror trial begins in US

The Manhattan Federal Court yesterday started a trial in which 11 Jewish American families are suing the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the PLO for supporting attacks that led to...

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January 14, 2015

#SetHerFree – a campaign to end the inhumane detention of women in the UK

As an asylum seeker from Turkey Meltem Avcil arrived in England aged 13. Along with her mother she was detained in Bedfordshire’s detention centre, Yarl’s Wood, which has gained...

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January 14, 2015

Israel approved the construction of 16,716 housing units in 2014

“The Israeli government approved schemes for building 16,716 new housing units in 33 settlements during 2014,” the officer in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank,...

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January 14, 2015

Palestinian leader: Going to the ICC means the end of negotiations

A member of the Central Committee of Fatah, Mohammad Shtayyeh, said the Palestinian request to join the International Criminal Court is the finish line for negotiations with Israel, and...

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January 14, 2015

Europe’s fear of Islam, from Paris to Dresden

On the day I left for home after an extended research stay in Europe and the Persian Gulf, news broke of the terrible attack on the staff of Charlie...

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January 14, 2015

Venezuelan President: OPEC members have not reached a consensus on holding an emergency meeting

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will not hold a summit in the coming weeks, as proposed by his country, for...

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January 14, 2015

Bahrain opposition leader jailed after Twitter post

A Bahraini court yesterday sentenced opposition leader and member of Al-Wefaq Association, Jamil Kazim, to six months in prison for a tweet he published about election bribes. The Bahrain...

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January 14, 2015

Palestinian deficit to exceed $2bn in 2015

The Palestinian government’s deficit is expected to reach nearly $2 billion in 2015, the Anadolu Agency reported a Palestinian finance ministry official as saying. The official told the agency...

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