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March 28, 2016

Netanyahu defends soldier who shot wounded Palestinian

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended the soldier caught on camera shooting a wounded Palestinian in the head. The victim was already on the ground when the fatal...

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March 28, 2016

Al Jazeera Network to cut 500 jobs

In a statement issued on Sunday, the media network said the redundancies are part of “a workforce optimisation initiative” and a response to the on-going transformation of the media...

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March 28, 2016

Italy pressures Egypt to review position on Italian student murder

Italy’s Interior Minister, Angelino Alfano, said Sunday that Egypt will keep the case of Italian research student, Guilio Regeni, open two days after the Egyptian authorities claimed they had...

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March 28, 2016

Kurdish parties demand at least 20% of new Iraqi government positions

Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers announced Sunday that they will not accept less than 20 per cent of the new government posts to be formed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. The...

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March 28, 2016

Iraqi MP: Daesh executed 15 young men, displaced 3,000 families from Nineveh

An Iraqi MP from the province of Nineveh revealed that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Daesh, has executed 15 young people from the city of Mosul in...

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March 28, 2016

Libya suspends air traffic at Mitiga airport in Tripoli

Libya suspended air traffic in Mitiga airport, east of Tripoli on Sunday due to security reasons that are likely to be associated with the scheduled arrival of the UN-backed...

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March 28, 2016

Iraq’s Sadr begins sit-in inside Baghdad’s Green Zone to push for reform

Iraq’s Shia cleric, Muqtada Al-Sadr began on Sunday a sit-in inside the Green Zone in central Baghdad demanding the government to combat corruption and enact reforms. The move comes...

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March 28, 2016

Turkey and the prospect of a divisive Syrian Kurdistan

The Kurds in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey have made no secret of their longing for a self-governing state. Since the start of the conflict in Syria, the Kurds...

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March 28, 2016

Is there a new prisoner swap deal on the horizon?

When it was known that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement in Gaza had captured an Israeli soldier in 2006, Benjamin Netanyahu tried stubbornness and arrogance over the issue of...

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March 27, 2016

Egyptian doctors in Cairo protest police brutality

Egyptian doctors demonstrated on Saturday evening in front of their syndicate’s headquarters in downtown Cairo to protest what they describe as “chronic police brutality” and to demand better security...

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