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July 23, 2015

Hamas blames Abbas for electricity outage in Gaza

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which has been ruling the Gaza Strip since mid-2007, has laid the blame for the current electricity outage in Gaza on Palestinian Authority (PA)...

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July 23, 2015

Egyptian court jails former PM to 5 years

An Egyptian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif to five year in prison during a retrial for charges of graft during his time in office, Anadolu agency...

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July 23, 2015

Israeli army kills Palestinian man while trying to arrest his son

The Israeli army on Thursday killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank while trying to arrest his son. Witnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israeli forces killed Falah Hamdi...

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July 23, 2015

EU think tank proposes measures on Israeli settlements

Experts at the European Council of Foreign Relations have called on the European Union to ensure that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank do not benefit from Israel-EU...

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July 23, 2015

Turkey sends more reinforcements to Syrian border

The Turkish army has sent further reinforcements to the border with Syria due to the volatile situation on the frontier zone. Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday that troops...

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July 23, 2015

Forbidden Marriages in the Holy Land: The cost of love

Love is blind, or so the saying goes. In Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, though, it is all too often not allowed to be. Director Michel Khleifi’s documentary...

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July 23, 2015

UN chief ‘concerned’ by Israel’s demolition of Palestinian village

The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, is concerned about the Israeli government’s plans to demolish Palestinian homes in Susya, a village south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. “Demolishing...

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July 23, 2015

OIC condemns Iraqi vice president’s comments about Saudi Arabia

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned comments by the Iraqi vice president about Saudi Arabia. Nouri Al-Maliki accused the kingdom of supporting and sponsoring terrorism, and called...

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July 23, 2015

Israeli bank shares fall after EU sanctions threats

Israeli bank shares fell by nearly 2.5 per cent on Wednesday after the European Council on Foreign Relations argued that the EU must go beyond labelling products from the...

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July 22, 2015

Cameron’s anti-extremism speech failed miserably

David Cameron’s much-trailed speech in Birmingham this week about “the struggle of our generation” failed miserably to live up to its billing. Instead of tackling genuine concerns about terrorism,...

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