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December 24, 2014

Abbas: We will end all dealings with Israel if we fail in UNSC

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened yesterday to stop all dealings with Israel “if the Arab-Palestinian initiative submitted to the Security Council to put an end to the occupation...

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December 24, 2014

Egyptian tortured to death in military prison

The family of Abdul Rahman Kamal are suing the National Security Services and the head of investigations unit at the 6 October City police station of kidnapping their son...

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December 24, 2014

Egypt to free jailed Jazeera journalists: Newspaper

A Qatari newspaper on Wednesday expected Egyptian authorities to release three Al Jazeera reporters – now in jail in Egypt – through a presidential amnesty. Qatari newspaper Al-Arab quoted...

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December 24, 2014

Israel: Tens of Israeli Arabs joined ISIS

“Only” tens of Israeli Arabs had joined the Islamic State (ISIS), Israeli radio reported Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon as saying yesterday. Ya’alon said: “The phenomenon of joining ISIS is...

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December 24, 2014

Israel to drill for oil in occupied Syrian Golan

Israel has approved an exploratory oil drilling programme in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, at a time when the unrest in Syria has meant that no party is fully...

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December 24, 2014

Oil price drop causes $43bn cut in Iraq’s budget

Iraq’s budget for 2015 has fallen to $100 billion due to the ongoing drop in oil prices, according to a member of the country’s parliamentary finance committee. On Tuesday,...

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December 24, 2014

‘Hamas seeks honourable prisoner swap’

Hamas has Israeli prisoners and seeks an “honourable” prisoner swap, member of the movement’s political bureau Mohamed Nazzal said yesterday. Speaking on Al-Quds TV, Nazzal said that the Israeli...

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December 24, 2014

Israel razes Arab land in Jaffa, evicts residents

Israeli police yesterday broke into an Arab house belonging to the Qubran family in the Al-Ajami neighbourhood of Jaffa, Arabs48.com reported. The Israeli police razed trees and the garden,...

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December 24, 2014

17,000 displaced in Iraq in last two weeks

The Iraqi government’s High Level Committee for Internally Displaced People announced yesterday that 17,000 Iraqis were displaced during the second half of December, bringing the total number of displaced...

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December 24, 2014

Hamas’ armed wing says member killed by Israeli shelling

The Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian resistance faction Hamas, said Wednesday that one of its fighters in the southern Gaza Strip had been killed by Israeli...

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