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September 15, 2015

Two years of terror: Death sentences in Egypt since 2013

Egypt has seen seven death sentences carried out and 246 overturned, with a further 433 still subject to appeal, out of a total of 1,695 death sentences referred to...

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September 15, 2015

Thyme cultivation fuels Palestinian green gold rush

Early every morning, Muayyad Said, a Palestinian farmer, gathers his tools and goes to his field to harvest thyme, the cultivation of which has dramatically expanded in the West...

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September 15, 2015

Defence of Al-Aqsa: A rocky present and unknown future

An unknown fate awaits the Mourabitoun and Murabitat activist groups defending Al-Aqsa Mosque after they were declared illegal groups by Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon. The decision was made...

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September 15, 2015

Kuwait sentences 7 to death for Shia mosque bombing

A criminal court in Kuwait sentenced seven people to death today for a June attack on a Shia mosque in which 27 people were killed; judicial sources have told...

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September 15, 2015

Fatah internal elections in Gaza expose Abbas-Dahlan conflict

The internal elections held by the national Palestinian liberation movement Fatah in Gaza to choose members of regional leadership councils have revealed the ongoing conflict between Palestinian President Mahmoud...

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September 15, 2015

Shades of colonialism = refugees

In the Kiswahili language, the term “maafa” means disaster, a terrible incident or a great tragedy. It is also used when referring to the centuries of suffering of the...

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September 15, 2015

UN: Two million children in Syria out of school

More than two million Syrian children will not able to return to school this year, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said today. “There are 5,000 schools across the...

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September 15, 2015

Iraqi lawmakers demand given titles be removed from national IDs

Members of the Iraqi Parliament demanded people’s given titles be removed from ID cards which the government is planning to issue in a couple of months, in an effort...

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September 15, 2015

US warns Abbas against reneging on Israeli-Palestinian agreements

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has recently received warning messages from American officials regarding the upcoming speech of President Mahmoud Abbas, due to be delivered at the UN headquarters later...

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September 15, 2015

Israel is a prisoner of its own ‘security wall’

It is not strange for a state driven by fear and governed by security measures such as Israel to be transformed, after many years, into an entity resembling a...

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