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May 11, 2016

Church of the Nativity deportees ask to return to their homes

Fourteen years after they were deported from their homes, the Palestinians who were besieged in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and then deported to Gaza and other...

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May 11, 2016

Belgian FM calls for economic conference to support Gaza

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders yesterday called for an economic conference to support the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. During a press conference held amongst the rubble of destroyed houses...

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May 11, 2016

Bangladesh leader’s execution protested in Turkey

Leader of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami group, Motiur Rahman Nizami’s execution was protested in front of the Bangladeshi embassy in Turkish capital Ankara late Tuesday. A group of people connected to several...

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May 11, 2016

Twitter was invited to #AskNetanyahu – and it didn’t disappoint

On Tuesday, the official Twitter account of Israel’s Prime Minister invited people to tweet questions for Benjamin Netanyahu using #AskNetanyahu. Bibi will apparently be answering the questions in a...

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May 10, 2016

Daesh chemical plant found in central Iraq

The Iraqi army found a chemical plant belonging to Daesh to the west of the town of Heet in central Iraq. Iraqi authorities made it clear that the...

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May 10, 2016

It will be business as usual for Israel despite the rhetoric of the Quartet’s upcoming report

A report to be issued by the moribund Middle East Quartet on 25 May is being touted as employing a harsher tone with regard to Israel’s colonial expansion. It...

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May 10, 2016

Egypt to open Rafah crossing after 85 days of closure

Egyptian authorities will open the Rafah border crossing on an exceptional basis tomorrow and Thursday, after 85 days of closure, the Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza said. The ministry...

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May 10, 2016

Turkey’s political experience is at a crossroads

The decision made by the nominal head of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, to hold an extraordinary congress for the party on 22 May,...

Article
May 10, 2016

The recapture of Syria’s Palmyra: A defining moment in the coverage of the conflict

Russia’s renowned Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra took to the stage on Thursday. They were not performing in their usual setting, the grandiose of Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, but on...

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May 10, 2016

Israel court convicts 14-year-old for ‘attempted murder’

An Israeli court on Tuesday convicted a Palestinian minor of “attempted murder” and possession of knife, a family member has said. An Israeli district court convicted Ahmed Manasra, 14,...

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