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May 12, 2015

Does Sisi retain the support of his top generals?

Follow the money. Actually, Deep Throat or W.Mark Felt Jr of the FBI, as he revealed himself to be, never uttered those words to the Washington Post reporter Carl...

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May 12, 2015

Netherlands to reportedly issue new policy directives on settlement pension payments

The Netherlands has cancelled reported plans to cut the pension of a Dutch Holocaust survivor as a result of her residing in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank,...

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May 12, 2015

Does solidarity activism prioritise symbolism over resistance?

The military court at Israel’s Ofer Prison in Betunia has reinstated the prison sentences of five political detainees released as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011....

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May 12, 2015

Almost all Palestinian prisoners ‘are tortured by Israel’

A human and civil rights specialist with the PLO has revealed that around 95 per cent of Palestinians imprisoned by the Israelis have been tortured physically and psychologically, Quds...

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May 12, 2015

Denying a cleaner’s son the right to become a judge

The Minister of Justice in Cairo has enraged Egyptians with his remarks against cleaners which highlight the class divisions within society. Mahfuz Sabir caused an uproar when he said...

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May 12, 2015

Erekat: ‘We will not exchange rights for rights’

Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said yesterday that Palestinians would never accept any solutions that diminishes the Palestinian rights recognised by the UN, including a Palestinian state on 1967...

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May 12, 2015

Qatar criticises Security Council for failing the Middle East

The prime minister of Qatar criticised the UN Security Council on Monday for failing to provide “just solutions” for the crises in the Middle East, Anadolu has reported. Sheikh...

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May 12, 2015

Amman refuses reduction in UN services for Palestinian refugees

Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said that his country refuses any reduction in UN services for Palestinian refugees in the kingdom, Anadolu reported yesterday. Judeh made his remarks during...

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May 12, 2015

Yemen’s Saleh denies alliance with Houthis

Deposed Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh denied on Monday that he is specifically an ally of Houthi militia Ansarullah Group. He stressed instead that he is an ally of...

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May 12, 2015

Egyptian activist Mahinour El-Masry re-arrested

A court in the Egyptian city of Alexandria yesterday ordered the arrest of human rights lawyer Mahinour El-Masry, during an appeal for a two-year sentence handed down to El-Masry...

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