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September 16, 2015

Saudi to crucify man arrested when he was 17

Saudi Arabia has dismissed the final appeal of a juvenile prisoner set to be crucified. Ali Mohammed Al-Nimr was arrested aged 17 after participating in anti-government protests in 2012....

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September 16, 2015

Mubarak-era tycoon barred from Egyptian polls

Egypt’s electoral committee has excluded a steel tycoon close to former President Hosni Mubarak from contesting next month’s parliamentary polls. Ahmed Ezz was excluded from the initial list of...

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September 16, 2015

First Syrian refugees to arrive in Britain ‘in days’

Britain is to accept the first group of Syrian refugees under its enlarged resettlement programme within days, the country’s interior minister has said. Home Secretary Theresa May told parliament...

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September 16, 2015

The Dawabsheh family and an arithmetic of apartheid

On June 12, 2014, three Israeli teenagers were abducted and killed by Palestinians in the southern area of the Occupied West Bank, though their bodies were not discovered until...

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September 16, 2015

Yemeni government calls for international guarantees before negotiations with Houthis

The Yemeni government has demanded guarantees from the UN that the Houthis will abide by Security Council Resolution 2216 before it starts negotiations with the militia’s representatives and ousted...

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September 16, 2015

Israel re-arrests prominent Palestinian hunger striker

Israeli authorities today re-arrested Mohammad Allan – a Palestinian activist who recently waged a weeks-long hunger strike to protest against his continued detention by Israel – upon his release from hospital,...

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September 16, 2015

Iraq denies US participation in ground battles in Ramadi

An Iraqi army spokesman yesterday dismissed reports that US ground forces are fighting Daesh in Ramadi. “The forces in charge of military operations in Anbar and all other security...

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September 16, 2015

How did Rawabi get its water?

In February this year, the new Palestinian town of Rawabi at last managed to secure a water supply, after several years of acrimonious negotiations with the Israeli and Palestinian...

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September 16, 2015

Erekat: ‘For peace to prevail, world must support justice for all’

The PLO has raised the issue of the ongoing Israeli aggressions on Al-Aqsa Mosque at the UN Security Council, its Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said today. In a statement to...

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September 16, 2015

The fires of religious war rage over Al-Aqsa

Israeli media sources have recently published the following statement: “Netanyahu’s government has decided to implement its decision to divide Al-Aqsa mosque in two phases: the first phase is to...

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