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December 14, 2014

Is the Mavi Marmara trial political expediency or a real quest for justice?

The name Mavi Marmara is known to millions around the world because of the heroism of ordinary civilians in resisting the supposedly elite Israeli soldiers of unit Shayetet 13...

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December 14, 2014

Ethiopia-Egypt talks on Nile dam stumble

Consultations among experts of Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt aimed at determining the impact of Ethiopia’s $4.8 billion dam project on the Nile’s upper reaches halted amid differences between Egypt...

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December 14, 2014

Hamas TV displays footage ‘from Israeli army computers’

A Hamas-run television channel on Saturday displayed a footage it said was taken from the Israeli army’s computer network. The video, which seems to have been captured by an...

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December 14, 2014

Egypt refers 438 Morsi supporters to military court

Egypt’s prosecution on Saturday referred 438 supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi to a military court over violence-related charges, judicial sources said. One judicial source told Anadolu Agency...

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December 14, 2014

Yemen’s Houthis blow up Islamist party office in Sanaa

Militants from the Shia Houthi group in Yemen blew up the office of a political party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Sanaa’s northern district of Arhab, eyewitnesses said...

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December 14, 2014

Algeria recalls envoys to Holland, Belgium

Algeria recalled its envoys to Belgium and Holland on Sunday after an Algerian airliner was held in Brussels on Friday over a legal dispute between the country’s flag carrier...

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December 13, 2014

US removes two Kurdish groups from terror blacklist

The US Congress allowed two Kurdish groups to be removed from a terror blacklist under US immigration laws. The move was part of a wider defense spending bill passed...

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December 13, 2014

Lessons from North Africa

One would expect that the Arab uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa since 2010 would have swept away authoritarian regimes and given way to a new democratic...

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December 13, 2014

Egypt denies entry to US researcher

Egyptian authorities has barred a US researcher from entering the country for “security reasons” and sent her back to Frankfurt in Germany, a security source said Saturday. Michele Dunne,...

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December 13, 2014

Gaza fisherman injured by Egyptian gunfire: Union

A Palestinian fisherman was injured Saturday by Egyptian gunfire off the coast of the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Gaza’s fishermen has said. “The fisherman was injured when Egyptian...

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