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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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February 27, 2016

Turkey criticises US bill labelling Brotherhood terrorist organisation

Ibrahim Kalın, a senior aide and spokesman of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticised on Friday the American bill that calls for the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood a...

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February 27, 2016

Sisi conjures images of Mubarak in his longest speech ever

Amid hysterical spells of laughter that overwhelmed him at times, and waves of tumult and weeping that swept him at other times, coup leader Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi called on...

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February 27, 2016

Hours after truce begins, car-bomb kills 2 in Syria’s Hama

Two people were killed and another four injured on Saturday morning when a bomb-laden vehicle blew up in Syria’s central-western Hama province, according to the country’s official news agency...

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February 27, 2016

Libya: UNICEF’s Special Representative welcomes Al Zintan’s decision to stop the involvement of children in armed conflict

UNICEF’s Special Representative in Libya, Dr Ghassan Khalil, has commended the decision of Al Zintan’s Municipal Council for the release, rehabilitation and reintegration of any child under 18, involved...

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February 27, 2016

Two Egyptians killed during anti-Sisi demonstrations across Egypt

Hundreds of Egyptians in a number of main Egyptian cities took to the streets on Friday, protesting against President Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi. Two protestors were killed while two policemen were...

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