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June 3, 2014

Lebanon claims right to strip Syrians of refugee status

Few people outside Lebanon noticed when the government gave itself the power to strip Syrians of their refugee status. While the world’s eyes were trained on the election in...

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June 3, 2014

500 billion Egyptian pounds: increase in domestic debt since the coup

A report by the Central Bank said the total external and internal debt has risen to 1,708 trillion Egyptian pounds, with nearly 200 billion Egyptian pounds in annual interest...

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June 3, 2014

Arab Gulf States condemn Syrian poll, hail rapprochement with Iran

Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Monday that the Syrian presidential election undermines efforts to reach a political solution to the crisis and they reinforced...

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June 3, 2014

Senior PLO official: Israeli measures against prisoners violate international law

Senior member of the PLO executive committee Dr Hanan Ashrawi said yesterday that the Palestinian hunger strikers are practicing their legitimate right to gain their freedom. Ashrawi said that...

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June 3, 2014

Israel to annex parts of the West Bank in response to unity government

The Israeli security cabinet considered annexing parts of the occupied West Bank in response to the swearing in of members of the Palestinian unity government, Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post...

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June 3, 2014

OIC hails new Palestinian government

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) hailed the new Palestinian unity government sworn in by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday. Secretary-General of the organisation Eyad Madani said: “This...

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June 3, 2014

Salman Al-Ouda's books withdrawn from Saudi bookstores

Activists on social networking sites confirmed that all of Islamist preacher Salman Ouda’s books have been pulled from bookshops in Saudi Arabia. Saudi tweeps published an image of shelves...

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June 3, 2014

Israel's timeline of terror

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making familiar noises about Hamas and “terrorism” in the wake of the announcement of the Palestinian unity government. “I call on all responsible...

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June 3, 2014

The Palestinian cause is priority, not Hamas or Fatah

If we are to think with the same logic as Fatah, the Palestinian Authority or Hamas, then maybe we would be happy to celebrate the announcement of the new...

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June 3, 2014

Palestinian families torn between the territories

Eight years ago, Mostafa Easariaj set off on a summer vacation to visit his father. His father, Hachem, still lives in the tiny, impoverished Gaza Strip, where Mostafa was...

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