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May 31, 2014

Hamas refuses the dissolution of the ministry of prisoners

Hamas senior leader in the occupied West Bank, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, said on Thursday that his movement rejects the idea of dissolving the ministry of prisoners. Speaking to Al-Quds...

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May 31, 2014

Gulf countries expect Iran to change its policies

Analysts suggest that Gulf countries are expecting tangible steps from Iran to prove its willingness to change its policies in the region ahead of the planned visit by Kuwaiti...

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May 31, 2014

Security services arrest Palestinians in solidarity with hunger strikers

On Friday Palestinian security services cracked down on protestors who took to the streets in the West Bank city of Jenin in solidarity with hunger strikers inside Israeli jails,...

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May 31, 2014

7000 times NO! Signatures against Italian cooperation with Mekorot delivered to mayor of Rome

On Thursday, May 29, with 25 meters of signatures, the resounding NO to Italian cooperation with Israeli water company Mekorot was taken to Rome City Hall. The 7114 signatures...

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May 31, 2014

Tunisia and Morocco sign 23 cooperation agreements

Tunisia and Morocco signed 23 agreements on Friday in a number of fields. These included cooperation agreements in the fields of security, development, industry, technology, scientific research, education, health...

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May 31, 2014

Egyptian state-owned TV broadcasts evidence of electoral fraud

An Egyptian state-owned TV channel broadcast an interview with one official at a polling station who said that the number of voters exceeded the actual number of eligible voters...

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May 31, 2014

Tunisia: Agreement to hold presidential and parliamentary elections separately

Participants in the Tunisian national dialogue announced on Friday an agreement to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on separate dates. The political parties represented in the Tunisian constituent assembly...

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May 31, 2014

Egypt's Sabahi calls for annulment of third day votes

The electoral campaign of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi demanded the exclusion of the votes cast on the third day of elections, citing electoral fraud. In a statement Friday, the...

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May 31, 2014

Egypt's Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya: Al-Sisi is waging a war against Islam

Vice president of the Shura Council of the Egyptian Islamic Group (Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya) Osama Hafez said that Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi‘s statements on the role of Islam in politics “aim...

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May 31, 2014

Egypt's pig in a poke of an election

The British idiom “pig in a poke” could aptly be used to describe the state of the latest Egyptian election. It comes from the Middle Ages when dodgy butchers...

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