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May 22, 2015

Houthis want coalition strikes halted before joining Geneva meet

Yemen’s Houthi group yesterday made its participation in a UN-sponsored conference on Yemen in Geneva later this month conditional on the halt of an ongoing air offensive launched by...

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May 22, 2015

Jordan says Middle East can solve its problems

King Abdullah II of Jordan said today that the problems of the Middle East can be solved by utilising the region’s strengths. Speaking during the inaugural session of the...

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May 22, 2015

Child killed in attack in Saudi border village

A child was killed and three others injured in southern Saudi Arabia today when missiles fired from Yemen fell in villages in the kingdom’s Jizan province, Saudi media has...

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May 22, 2015

Palestine to chair UNESCO meeting

Palestine was elected to chair the third Meeting of States Parties to the UNESCO 1970 Convention on Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property for the first time earlier this week....

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May 22, 2015

Gaza unemployment ‘ticking time-bomb’: Israeli lawmaker

The surge in unemployment in the Gaza Strip is a “ticking time-bomb”, an Israeli member of Knesset said today. Gaza’s joblessness rate has risen to 43 per cent, according...

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May 22, 2015

Abbas: We rejected all ‘transitional solutions’ for Palestinian state

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said today that he rejected all transitional solutions and the introduction of temporary borders for the aspired Palestinian state. Speaking at the World Economic...

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May 22, 2015

President of German parliament explains refusal to meet Al-Sisi

The president of the German parliament, Norbert Lammert, has justified his cancellation of a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on the basis that there is nothing to...

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May 22, 2015

Israel releases ex-minister after 10 months in prison

The Israeli authorities released the Palestinian Authority’s former Minister of Prisoners, Wasfi Kabha, on Thursday. Hailing from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Kabha has spent 10 months...

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May 22, 2015

Turkey and its red lines in Cyprus

The independence of the Turkish Cypriots is non-negotiable as far as Turkey is concerned; North Cyprus is no different to any other Anatolian district. So much so, in fact,...

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May 22, 2015

Erdogan: Democracy is to respect people’s will

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said that democracy can only be achieved by respecting people’s will. Erdogan said only true democracy can achieve prosperity, which can only be...

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