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September 6, 2014

Mass protests in Egypt against worsening living conditions and power outages

The Anti-Coup Pro-Legitimacy Alliance staged massive nationwide protests on Friday in Egypt against the decline in living conditions in the country and the continued power outages. Security forces fired...

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September 6, 2014

New mass execution sites found, ISIS killed more captives in Iraq, HRW

Hundreds of captives have been gunned down by ISIS militants in Iraq, bringing the total number of executed Iraqi soldiers to 770, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday. According...

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September 6, 2014

Turkish Red Crescent: siege undermines passage of aid to Gazans

Officials from the Turkish Red Crescent said that the eight-year old siege on Gaza undermines Turkish attempts to deliver aid that covers the needs of all Gazans and guarantees...

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September 6, 2014

UN: 1,500 new orphans as a result of Israeli war

In the aftermath of Israel’s latest military offensive in the Gaza Strip, dubbed “Operation Protective Edge,” the process of evaluating the true extent of the damage has begun. The...

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September 6, 2014

Palestinian Authority arrested 74 citizens in 10 days

The committee of families of political prisoners in the occupied West Bank said that the Palestinian security services arrested at least 74 Palestinians in ten days. According to the...

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September 6, 2014

Israeli opposition: war on Gaza created opportunity for peace

Israel’s Leader of the Opposition Isaac Herzog told Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas that the latest Israeli war on Gaza had “created an opportunity to reach political reconciliation,”...

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September 6, 2014

Hamas: there is a chance ahead for the unity government to survive

The Palestinian Islamic Movement Hamas said on Friday that the Palestinian unity government has a chance to survive “if it deals justly” with the Gaza residents. Sami Abu-Zuhri, Hamas...

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September 6, 2014

Egypt refers Morsi to new trial over ‘leaked documents’

Egypt’s prosecutor-general on Saturday referred ousted president Mohamed Morsi and others to trial over charges of leaking confidential documents to Qatar. According to a statement from the top prosecutor’s...

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September 6, 2014

Israel preparing for war against Hezbollah: Report

The Israeli army is currently preparing for the possibility of the eruption of “a very violent war” with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Israel’s Channel 2 reported. In the report,...

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September 6, 2014

An Islamic aberration

Animals: was my instinctual response to photos of Syrian soldiers being executed by members of the so-called Islamic State (IS). The same gut feelings two days earlier to the...

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