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February 29, 2016

Shaikh Salman’s own goal cost him the top job at FIFA

The trouble with dictators, despots and royalty across the world is that they surround themselves with fawning fools who are too afraid or too servile to tell their masters...

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February 28, 2016

15 killed on 1st day of Syria deal: UK-based watchdog

At least 15 people were killed in Syria on the first day of a cessation-of-hostilities agreement between the Assad regime and opposition forces, a UK-based monitoring group has said....

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February 28, 2016

Despite truce, Russian planes strike 5 towns in Syria

Russian warplanes struck targets in five towns in northern and central Syria on Sunday – the second day of a cessation-of-hostilities agreement between Syria’s Assad regime and opposition forces....

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February 28, 2016

Why an Israeli newspaper wanted to ‘flatten’ a city of millions

Earlier this month Haaretz, Israel’s influential liberal daily, published a blood-curdling article. It openly argued for war crimes on a massive scale against the civilian population of a neighbouring...

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February 28, 2016

186 Palestinians killed by Israel over last 5 months: NGO

According to the latest Palestinian figures, since October 1 of last year, at least 186 Palestinians have been killed and another 15,645 injured by Israeli troops in the Gaza...

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February 28, 2016

Syria truce lasted 50 minutes: Turkmen commander

A Syrian Turkmen commander has said that a cessation-of-hostilities agreement – which went into effect midnight Friday – had only held for 50 minutes before being broken by the...

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February 28, 2016

Tunisian government sues security syndicate officials

The Tunisian government on Saturday lodged a formal legal complaint against officials from the national syndicate of domestic security forces in which it accused the latter of staging demonstrations...

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February 28, 2016

Reformists sweep Iran polls, initial results indicate

Allies of Iran’s reform-minded president, Hassan Rouhani, appear to have swept parliamentary polls, according to preliminary results. A pro-Rouhani alliance of reformists clinched 29 out of 30 seats up...

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February 28, 2016

Israel’s apartheid character…

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom created a maelstrom in Israel by merely demanding a “credible investigation into deaths of Palestinians in order to clarify and bring about possible accountability.”...

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February 28, 2016

Saudi Arabia rejects the first list of the ’30 billion Riyals projects’

Informed sources said that the Saudi delegation in the Egyptian-Saudi Coordination Council has rejected a large number of the projects proposed by Egyptian ministries in order to attract the...

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