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May 18, 2015

Egyptian death sentence ‘badge of honour’, says Palestinian prisoner

A Palestinian prisoner being held by Israel for the past 20 years has declared the sentence of death handed to him by an Egyptian court to be a “badge...

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May 18, 2015

Report: 10m Algerians live in extreme poverty

As many as 10 million Algerians are living in extreme poverty and are deprived of basic human rights, a human rights organisation said yesterday. The Andolu Agency reported a...

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May 18, 2015

EU ‘confident’ Morsi death penalty will be revised

The European Union has called on the Egyptian judiciary to provide elected President Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 of his supporters with “the right to a fair trial”....

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May 18, 2015

Ghannushi calls on Saudi to lead reconciliation in Egypt

Leader of the Tunisian Renaissance movement, Sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannushi, called on the Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to lead a reconciliatory project in the region, in particular between the...

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May 18, 2015

Fatah: Egyptian judiciary is ‘ancient’, we do not interfere in its rulings

Fatah expressed its refusal to intervene or comment on an Egyptian court’s decision to refer the papers of Palestinian martyrs and prisoners to the Grand Mufti to consider the...

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May 17, 2015

The Week in Pictures

BIET NABAL, WEST BANK: Palestinian refugee Kamela Safi, 90, holds the keys of her former house in the village of Biet Nabal as she sits at her home in...

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May 17, 2015

Turkey and Qatar to launch joint university for Syrian refugees

Gaziantep’s municipality started work on a planned Turkey-Qatar international university for Syrian refugees, the mayor of Turkey’s southeastern province said Sunday. “The Embassy of Qatar has been conducting planning...

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May 17, 2015

Houthis storm Muslim Brotherhood’s party office in Aden, Yemen

Shia Houthi militants on Saturday stormed into the headquarters of Al-Islah Party, the political arm of Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood, in Kraytar, a district of the southern province of Aden,...

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May 17, 2015

Palestinian photojournalist shot in eye by Israeli army

A Palestinian photojournalist was on Saturday shot in the eye by the Israeli army during clashes that broke out near the West Bank city of Nablus. Nedal Eshtayah, a...

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May 17, 2015

Erdogan asks why ‘West remains silent’ on Morsi verdict

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has termed an Egyptian court’s death penalty on ousted elected President Mohamed Morsi as a capital punishment against democracy. Speaking in Istanbul at an...

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