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November 16, 2015

The crisis in Israel’s arms industry

Last month the heads of four major Israeli arms firms warned their government of a “major crisis” in the country’s arms industry. The value of arms exports is falling...

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November 16, 2015

Israel’s dilemma: Jerusalem divided or united for peace?

Israel annexed East Jerusalem shortly after capturing it from Jordan in the Six Day War of 1967. For decades it has claimed that East and West Jerusalem are part...

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November 16, 2015

Reports claim veteran journalist warns that Sisi might become isolated

Observers have told Arabi 21 that journalist and writer Abdullah Al-Sinawi was referring to Muhammad Hasanayn Haikal when he mentioned “a close friend of President Sisi whose mutual relationship...

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November 16, 2015

Jordanian King: Jerusalem will remain under Jordan’s guardianship

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has stressed that Jerusalem will remain under Hashemite guardianship in terms of Jordan’s religious and historical responsibility towards the Holy City. In his speech during...

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November 16, 2015

Iraqi Defence Minister: 180 officers referred to court over massacre

Iraqi Defence Minister Khalid Al-Obeidi announced yesterday that as many as 180 army officers have been referred to court over the 2014 Camp Speicher massacre in which 1,700 soldiers...

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November 16, 2015

Egypt: Two women arrested following a verdict to imprison 14 others

Yesterday, the security forces of Egypt’s Dakahlia Governorate arrested two women in the city of Senbellawein against the backdrop of a ruling issued by the Criminal Court of Mansoura...

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November 16, 2015

Ghalioun: Vienna ‘do not provide a solution’ to the Syrian crisis

The former chairman of the Syrian opposition Transitional National Council (SNC) Burhan Ghalioun has said that the Vienna meeting that concluded on Saturday and led to a consensus on...

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November 16, 2015

Tunisian army attacks Al-Qaeda affiliate group in Kasserine

The Tunisian Ministry of Defence announced yesterday that clashes broke out between the army forces and an Al-Qaeda affiliate group in the Kasserine province on the border with Algeria....

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November 16, 2015

Rohingya and the Burmese Generals: How to forge a democracy and get away with it

Writing in the New York Times in an article entitled, “Myanmar Generals Set the State for Their Own Exit“, Thomas Fuller expressed his and the media’s failure to recognise...

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November 16, 2015

France calls for extra security measures in Algeria

French Ambassador in Algiers Bernard Emié yesterday called on the Algerian authorities to strengthen security measures around French establishments in the country after the bloody attacks that targeted the...

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