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May 8, 2014

For the third time, Lebanon fails to elect new president

Lebanese parliamentarians failed for the third time yesterday to elect a new president to replace President Michel Sleiman whose mandate ends on May 25. Speaker of the Parliament Nabih...

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May 8, 2014

Hamas official: technocrat government has no political agenda

Senior member of Hamas’ political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk stressed yesterday that the prospective technocrat government has no political agenda. He said that this government has six “specific” missions to...

News
May 8, 2014

Kerry and the spectre of Israeli apartheid

When US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Israel could possibly be turning into an apartheid state, it was pointed out that many senior Israeli politicians and officials...

Article
May 8, 2014

Libyan militants occupying oil terminals refuse to acknowledge new prime minister

An agreement reached with Libyan rebels in control of oil terminals in eastern Libya is being challenged by the continued political instability in the country. The rebels said...

News
May 8, 2014

American citizen on hunger strike in Cairo prison

Mohamed Soltan, son of a Muslim Brotherhood figure, has been on hunger strike for just over 100 days and is the only dual American-Egyptian citizen detained in Egyptian prisons....

News
May 7, 2014

Few believe Israel denials of spying on US

Veteran American security correspondent Jeff Stein writes the SpyTalk column for Newsweek, and published a most telling piece on their website yesterday. It provided the latest insight into the...

Article
May 7, 2014

Events in Ukraine bring Beijing, Moscow and Tehran closer

In protest of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to sidle closer to Russia instead of the EU, thousands of people poured onto Kiev’s streets and in February were left...

Article
May 7, 2014

US visa restrictions on Israelis likely to continue after latest spy scandal

This week, Newsweek reported that Israel was spying on the US, using the cover of trade missions or joint defense technology agreements between the two countries. In and of...

Blog
May 7, 2014

Finally, international steps to bring Syrian war criminals to justice

On April 15, 2014, France plans to arrange an informal confidential gathering of Security Council members (a so-called “Arria-formula” meeting) in order to consider a report on the mass...

Publications
May 7, 2014

UN Roundtable: Palestine should trust the International Community

Earlier this year, Amnesty International reported about the ‘Trigger-happy’ Israel’s excessive use of force on Palestinians in the West Bank. Deputy Director of the organisation in the MENA region,...

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