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July 29, 2015

Barghouti is likely to become president if Abbas doesn’t run

Results of a recent poll revealed that imprisoned Palestinian parliamentarian Marwan Barghouti is likely to become Palestinian Authority (PA) president if current President Mahmoud Abbas does not run for...

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July 29, 2015

The International Criminal Court is unfit for purpose

The debate that has opened up regarding the International Criminal Court as a consequence of South Africa’s decision not to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir while he was attending...

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July 29, 2015

A forgotten Palestinian kidnap victim

Dirar Abu Sisi was once the technical director of Gaza’s only electricity plant. One night in February 2011, traveling on a train to visit his brother in Ukraine he...

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July 29, 2015

Hamas and Saudi Arabia

Since he was handed the reins of authority in Saudi Arabia, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz has adopted a new and clearly different policy to that followed by his predecessor...

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July 29, 2015

Al-Jazeera presenter Ahmed Mansour stopped under Egyptian warrant in Turkey

Turkish airport authorities stopped prominent Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmad Mansour yesterday under an Egyptian arrest warrant. In a Facebook post yesterday, Mansour said: “I was stopped at Ankara International Airport...

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July 29, 2015

Baghdad calls on Turkey to halt airstrikes against PKK in Iraq

The Iraqi Parliament yesterday called on the Turkish government to stop the aerial bombardment of Iraqi villages near the border and described the operations as a “violation of Iraq’s...

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July 29, 2015

Report: Egyptian pound to drop against the dollar

A British economic research firm said it expected the Egyptian pound to continue to fall to reach 8.25 Egyptian pounds to the dollar by the end of this year....

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July 29, 2015

Oil pipeline blown up in east Turkey

Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline has been attacked in Sirnak province, Taner Yildiz, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister said on Wednesday. According to a statement released by the Turkish Energy...

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July 29, 2015

UK concerned by Israeli decision to expand illegal settlements

The UK is deeply concerned by an Israeli decision to expand settlements built on occupied Palestinian lands, calling on the Israeli government to refrain from taking such a step,...

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July 29, 2015

UN chief condemns PKK terrorist attacks in Turkey

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday condemned the attacks on Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York that the secretary-general...

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