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September 29, 2015

Cairo announces urgent meeting on Ethiopian dam

Egypt’s presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef said yesterday that the Tripartite National Committee (TNC) is to convene on 5 October to discuss the issue of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...

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September 29, 2015

Saudi Arabia calls for Jewish settlers to be blacklisted

Saudi Arabia has called for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem to be blacklisted by the United Nations, and condemned the Israeli government for aiding and...

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September 29, 2015

15 Kuwaiti officials jailed over 2007 electricity scandal

The Kuwaiti court of misdemeanours yesterday sentenced the current Minister of Electricity and Water, Ahmad Al-Jassar, and 14 senior officials at the ministry for two years each in prison...

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September 29, 2015

Differences between Iran and the Gulf are political not religious

The difference between Iran and the Gulf states are political and not religious, the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani said yesterday. “The existing disputes, in my...

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September 29, 2015

Britain ‘reopens’ file on Muslim Brotherhood

A senior member of the international legal team defending Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including ousted President Mohamed Morsi, has said that the British government has reopened the file on the...

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September 29, 2015

Ennahda denies asking Iran to mediate between Tunisia and Syria

Spokesman of the Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahda Osama Al-Saghir denied that his movement had asked Iran to mediate with the Syrian regime regarding the Tunisian detainees in Syria, Rassd.com...

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September 29, 2015

Palestinians are poorer for the third consecutive year

A UN report issued by the World Bank revealed on Monday that the decline in aid from donor countries, last year’s war in the Gaza Strip and the freeze...

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September 29, 2015

Abbas’s gratitude for Al-Sisi’s duplicitous role

After much speculation about Mahmoud Abbas’s allegedly forthcoming bombshell, which officials in Ramallah have claimed will be an announcement to end the Oslo Accords, a meeting between the Palestinian...

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September 29, 2015

Reconceptualising Yemen with photography: an interview with FRAME Yemen

The Saudi-led operation against Houthi rebels has put Yemen in the spotlight for almost six months, for all the wrong reasons. Instability, unfortunately, is nothing new to Arabia Felix,...
September 29, 2015

France to discuss no-fly zone in Syria with partners soon

French President Francois Hollande said yesterday that his country will discuss in the coming days with its partners a proposal put forward by Turkey and members of the Syrian...

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