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November 16, 2015

Former Mossad head: ‘major mistake’ not to recognise 2006 Palestinian elections

Former head of Mossad Efraim Halevy has called Israel’s refusal to recognise the results of the 2006 Palestinian elections, in which Hamas emerged victorious, a “major mistake.” Halevy made...

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November 16, 2015

Report: GCC petrochemical exports to China rise to $15.2bn

The Gulf Cooperation Council petrochemical exports to China rose to about 13.37 million tonnes at a value of nearly $15.15 billion in 2014, a new report by the Gulf...

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November 16, 2015

UNICEF unable to fund 60% of needs in Sudan

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is unable to finance 60 per cent of people’s needs in Sudan, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported. UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi told...

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November 16, 2015

Report: Israel trade deficit hits over $1bn in October

Israel’s trade deficit reached nearly 4.2 billion shekels ($1.09 billion) during October, a new report revealed yesterday. According to the monthly report issued by the Israeli Central Bureau of...

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November 15, 2015

The week in pictures

Step into the Middle East and see what’s been happening over the last seven days in pictures…...

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November 15, 2015

Mavi Marmara group welcomes Spanish judge’s remarks

Mavi Marmara Freedom and Solidarity Association has welcomed a Spanish judge’s recent remarks over the 2010 Gaza flotilla incident during which he hinted at the possibility of reopening the...

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November 15, 2015

Sa’ad Al-Din Ibrahim: Either we reconcile with the Muslim Brotherhood or go to civil war

Dr Sa’ad Al-Din Ibrahim, the director of Ibn Khaldoun Centre for Developmental Studies and professor of Political Sociology at the American University in Cairo, has said that reconciliation between...

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November 15, 2015

Palestine’s Salah: Incarceration ‘strengthens my resolve’

Sheikh Raed Salah, a leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, said a recent Israeli decision to jail him for 11 months would only strengthen his resolve “to work...

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November 14, 2015

Pro-Sisi journalists criticised for gloating over Paris terror attacks

Four female TV presenters and journalists known to be supporters of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, have been criticised for expressing apparent “delight” over Friday’s terror attacks in Paris....

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November 14, 2015

Not in the name of Allah

Outrageous. Immoral. Cowardly. Stupid. These are the words that entered my mind as soon as I had learned that, yet again, France has been attacked. Yet again, extremist groups...

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