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  • February 7, 2016

    Algeria’s parliament approves draft constitutional changes

    Algeria’s parliament on Sunday approved a raft of draft constitutional amendments, which – among other things – will limit future presidents to two terms in office and officially recognise...

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  • February 7, 2016

    Airstrikes by unidentified warplane kill four in Eastern Libya

    At least four people, including a mother and her child, were killed by airstrikes carried out Sunday by an unidentified warplane in Libya’s eastern city of Derna, according to...

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  • February 7, 2016

    Kurtulmus: Turkey took in 3 million migrants

    Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Sunday that Turkey had no choice but to take in 3 million migrants of Syria and Iraq so far. Speaking during...

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  • February 7, 2016

    Jordan decries Israeli plan to build Western Wall ‘prayer plaza’

    Jordanian officials are calling on Israel to halt plans to build a new “prayer plaza” at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, located in the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Jordan’s official Petra...

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  • February 7, 2016

    Hamas, Fatah to discuss Palestinian reconciliation in Doha

    Hamas and Fatah representatives are set to meet in Qatari capital Doha on Sunday to discuss implementation of a reconciliation deal signed in 2014 between the rival Palestinian movements....

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  • February 7, 2016

    EU slams Israeli West Bank land seizures, home demolitions

    The EU has slammed recent Israeli activity in the occupied West Bank, saying it threatened to undermine the viability of a future Palestinian state. The EU’s External Action Service...

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  • February 7, 2016

    Artillery fire from Yemen kills 2 in Saudi Arabia

    A Saudi soldier and one civilian have been killed by cross-border shelling from war-torn Yemen, according to Saudi Arabia’s official news agency. Late Saturday, the Saudi Press Agency quoted...

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  • February 7, 2016

    Israeli minister: Egypt flooding Gaza tunnels at our request

    Israeli Infrastructure Minister Yuval Steinitz has said that Egypt’s new policy of flooding the tunnels between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula with seawater had come at Israel’s...

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  • February 7, 2016

    Forbidden love tales in Israel…

    How can a two-year-old novel become a best seller? Censorship is the short answer. The most important question is, however, why would the “Jewish democracy” censor a love fiction...

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  • February 6, 2016

    Hundreds of Syrian Turkmens enter Turkey

    Some 2,000 Turkmens have crossed into Turkey Saturday after fleeing attacks from Russian and Syrian regime forces in northwestern Syria, according to the Turkish disaster agency. The displaced were...

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