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May 5, 2015

‘Human shields’ rhetoric still not exhausted by Israeli officials

Departing from an allegation presented as fact, Israeli General Benny Gantz reverted to accusations of Hamas using civilians as human shields. The context for this perpetual narrative this time...

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May 5, 2015

‘The Iranian revolution inspired Yemen’

The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said yesterday that Yemen constitutes the latest achievement of the Islamic revolution outside of Iranian, saying that Yemenis’...

News
May 5, 2015

Houthis shelling Saudi Arabia

Houthi militias today began shelled the Saudi city of Najran, on the south-western border of Yemen. According to witnesses, shelling began on the Saudi front and was reiterated by...

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May 5, 2015

Yemen through its literature: A nation besieged

The recent Saudi-led bombing campaign against Yemen has been reduced to a simplistic narrative of a Sunni-Shia divide driving national conflict – reminiscent of an essentialist “clash of civilizations”...

Article
May 5, 2015

Ennahda calls for respecting people’s rights and freedoms

Tunisia’s Ennahda movement has called for respecting the principles of the Constitution with regard to rights and freedom as important gains of 2011’s revolution that overthrew Zine El-Abidine Ben...

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May 5, 2015

Egypt: 1.4 violations against journalists every 72 hours

The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate on Sunday criticised the arrest of three of its members on World Press Freedom Day. The head of the syndicate’s Freedom Committee, Khaled Al-Balshi, said...

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May 5, 2015

GCC to hold meeting, discuss regional developments

The six-state Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states will meet in the Saudi capital Riyadh today to discuss regional developments, including the ongoing crisis in Yemen as well as...

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May 5, 2015

Abbas calls on diaspora to return and invest in Palestine

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on Palestinian expatriates to come back, invest in Palestine and contribute to building its economy. Addressing an investment conference organised by the...

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May 5, 2015

Lauryn Hill cancels Israeli concert after calls for boycott

African-American singer Lauryn Hill has cancelled her concert in Israel after coming under pressure from activists on social media. The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of...

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May 5, 2015

More than 11,000 demolition orders pending in West Bank

There are more than 11,000 currently outstanding demolition orders issued by Israeli authorities against Palestinian-owned properties in the Occupied West Bank, according to new figures. The official data, as...

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