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May 12, 2016

Israel’s pick for ambassador to Italy withdraws her candidacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s choice for Tel Aviv’s ambassador to Italy, Fiamma Nirenstein, has withdrawn her candidacy citing “personal reasons”. Nirenstein, a former Italian journalist and lawmaker, immigrated...

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May 12, 2016

Israel can commit crimes with impunity; condemn them at your peril

Israel’s latest display of misplaced ire at the UN Security Council has provided a succinct illustration of how criticism of settler colonialism, even by Israeli NGOs, remains a cloistered...

Blog
May 12, 2016

Italy appoints new ambassador to Egypt

Italy has appointed Giampaolo Cantini as its new ambassador to Egypt. On Tuesday, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said his government had decided to transfer former Italian Ambassador to...

News
May 11, 2016

Sadr’s political tantrum turned pantomime

Iraqi news output over the past couple of months has been a seemingly incessant torrent of stories about the great, the indomitable, the righteous Moqtada Al-Sadr; Shia cleric...

Article
May 11, 2016

Obama discusses efforts to tackle Daesh with US National Security Council

US President Barack Obama met with the US National Security Council yesterday to discuss the international coalition’s efforts to fight Daesh. The White House called on the council...

News
May 11, 2016

Israeli army raids neighbourhood of Kafr ‘Aqab and opens fire

The Israeli army used live ammunition during a raid on the neighbourhood of Kafr ‘Aqab this morning, resulting in a number of casualties, according to eye-witnesses and medical...

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May 11, 2016

Israeli research centre: Sisi very important to US and us

A leading Israeli research centre has urged for the formation of a joint American-Israeli strategy that would guarantee the survival of the governments in Egypt and Jordan. In a study...

News
May 11, 2016

Arab coalition: We will attack Sana’a if Kuwait negotiations fail

The Saudi-led Coalition will attack Sana’a if the negotiations in Kuwait fail, the group’s spokesperson Brigadier General Ahmed Bin Hassan Al-Asiri said. During his interview on the Al-Ashira Masa’an programme aired on Egypt’s...

News
May 11, 2016

A parliamentary junket to the UAE may paint a thousand words, but the cracks are showing

Review the lists of MPs who are taken on expensive parliamentary jaunts abroad and you will find relatively few names you know; they are more likely to come...

Article
May 11, 2016

Daesh pay cut causes anger within group

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported yesterday that anger over a pay cut has spread across Daesh’s ranks in the suburbs of Deir ez-Zor. The cut...

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