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January 25, 2016

Cuts to anti-organised crime budgets are helping Daesh

Imagine Daesh as a solar system; then imagine a white-hot sun in the middle. That is the die-hards, the ideologues, the unpersuadable few whose minds cannot be changed. Their...

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January 25, 2016

Official data: Saudi wastes $13.3bn of food each year

Saudi Arabia wastes nearly 50 billion riyals ($13.3 billion) of food per year, new data has revealed. Alriyadh newspaper yesterday reported the Saudi Minister of Agriculture, Abdulrahman Al-Fadhli, saying...

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January 25, 2016

Iraq cancels free healthcare system

Iraqi citizens are now being asked for fees at healthcare facilities around the country, a source at the Ministry of Health has informed Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. The oil-rich country has...

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January 25, 2016

Israel’s Attorney General adopts recommendations on illegal building

Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein yesterday adopted the recommendations of the committee set up to deal with illegal construction in the Arab community. The committee was set up by...

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January 25, 2016

Assad remains the least interested in peace

A new phase of political negotiations were supposed to start in Geneva today, 25 January, between representatives of the Syrian opposition and the Assad regime, as part of the...

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January 25, 2016

A conversation about Tunisia today with Harvard Professor Malika Zeghal

According to Malika Zeghal, “In Tunisia today the main issue is not about Islam, or about Sharia law, but about how every Tunisian can find a job.” The Professor...
January 25, 2016

544 Egyptians arrested ahead of revolution anniversary

Some 544 people have been arrested in Egypt since the start of the year, human rights activists have reported. In exclusive comments to the Anadolu Agency, Ezzat Ghoneim, of...

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January 25, 2016

Egypt committee seized $695 million of Muslim Brotherhood funds in two years

Egypt has confiscated nearly $695 million from the Muslim Brotherhood group since January 2014, a committee tasked with managing the Muslim Brotherhood’s funds said on Sunday. Committee Chairman Ezzat...

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January 25, 2016

400,000 troops deployed to secure Egypt on 5th anniversary of January revolution

More than 400,000 soldiers have been positioned across the country in preparation for events to mark the fifth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, the Safa news agency reported...

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January 25, 2016

Netanyahu: ‘We support settlements all the time’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday stressed that his government supports settlements all the time, promising to allow settlers evicted from Palestinian houses in Hebron to return. Israeli media...

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