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January 9, 2015

Israel hands down 8 month suspended sentence to Haniyeh’s sisters

Two sisters of the Vice President of the political bureau of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh were given eight-month suspended sentences on charges of entering Gaza through the Rafah border crossing,...

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January 9, 2015

US calls on Saudi to cancel ‘brutal’ flogging of jailed blogger

The US yesterday called on the Saudi authorities to reconsider a “brutal” sentence against jailed liberal blogger, Raif Badawi. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, during the daily press...

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January 9, 2015

Egyptian fishermen who were lost at sea return home

Some 300 Egyptian fishermen who were thought to be missing at sea after escaping the conflict in Libya arrived in their hometown of Kafr El-Sheikh today, Youm7 reported. The...

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January 9, 2015

Egypt begins demolishing 1,220 houses in Rafah

Local authorities in Sinai began the second phase of a plan to displace thousands of Egyptian families whose houses are located within 500 meters of the border with Gaza,...

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January 9, 2015

Netanyahu’s recruitment of the Hebdo attack

On Wednesday two gunmen attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, killing eight of the publication’s journalists, including its chief editor, along with four other people,...

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January 9, 2015

Iran calls to boost economic relations with Kuwait

Iran calls to boost economic relations with Kuwait Iran Minister of Economic and Financial Affairs Ali Tayebnia yesterday called for economic and trade relations with Kuwait to be boosted...

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January 9, 2015

Freedom of speech had nothing to do with the Paris massacre

Former Time magazine editor-in-chief Henry Anatol Grünwald once said: “Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately,...

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January 9, 2015

Egypt passes life sentences to 2 pro-democracy protesters

Two pro-democracy protesters in Egypt were sentenced to life yesterday; while 12 others were given ten year prison terms and a further nine will be incarcerated for five years,...

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January 8, 2015

German-Turkish academic Dr Gökçe Yurdakul speaks to MEMO about why Dresden became the cradle of PEGIDA protests

In Angela Merkel’s 2015 New Year address, the German chancellor told the country it should aid Ukrainians, Iraqis and Syrians who have escaped war and death in their countries....
January 8, 2015

The plight of Syrian refugees deepens in Lebanon and abroad

In the four years since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, millions of Syrians have been forced to flee their homes, causing one of the biggest refugee crises...

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