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June 9, 2015

Ban Ki-moon buckles – and Palestinian children will pay the price

-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has overruled his colleagues’ recommendations and removed Israel from a list of parties guilty of grave violations of children’s rights, it was revealed Monday. The...

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June 9, 2015

US passports must show ‘Jerusalem’ not ‘Israel’, Supreme Court says

American Supreme Court yesterday struck down part of a federal statute that allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to record their place of birth as “Israel” on their passport, American...

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June 9, 2015

US may send weapons for Iran and Kurds to fight ISIS

The US is worried that ISIS will become so powerful it will take over control of a capital city and demand international recognition, Al-Quds newspaper reported experts saying yesterday....

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June 9, 2015

Obama: Sisi is taking Egypt away from democracy

The US administration has criticised the Egyptian regime accusing military President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi of moving the country away from democracy, the New York Times reported on Sunday. In...

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June 8, 2015

Turkey gives West a lesson in democracy

As the dust settles over Turkey’s 25th parliamentary elections, Western powers are busy scrambling to work out if the results will work in their favour. Since the collapse of...

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June 8, 2015

Instability aside, Turkey’s election result is a victory for democracy

For the past 13 years, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been gradually amassing power. The Justice and Development Party (generally known by its Turkish acronym, AKP) that he...

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June 8, 2015

Report: Increase in torture in detention under Sisi

There has been an increase in the death rates in detention centres since the military coup in Egypt, a new report has revealed. In a report entitled “The Official...

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June 8, 2015

Fighting escalates on Saudi-Yemeni border ahead of Geneva talks

The Saudi Arabian-Yemeni border is witnessing an unprecedented escalation in fighting between the Houthis and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdalluh Saleh on one side, and Saudi artillery...

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June 8, 2015

Hamas deploys fighters to protect construction site in north Gaza

The military wing of Hamas deployed several fighters north of Gaza on Sunday to protect a construction site after the Israeli army fired at the bulldozers building a road...

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June 8, 2015

Egypt sentences Brotherhood leaders, army officers over coup attempt

Egypt has sentenced former parliamentarian Helmi Al-Jazzar and 24 army officers for attempting to overthrow the government, Pls48.net reported journalist Haitham Khalil saying yesterday. During his talk show Al-Sharq,...

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