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April 23, 2015

Pro-Hamas bloc wins West Bank university polls

A student coalition affiliated with Palestinian faction Hamas yesterday won student union elections at Ramallah’s Birzeit University for the first time since 2007. The pro-Hamas Al-Wafaa Bloc won 26...

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April 22, 2015

Asylum for Syrian refugees: An overdue olive branch

The United Nations has started looking west in a despondent attempt to find asylum for the millions of refugees streaming out of Syria. Last week UN High Commissioner for...

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April 22, 2015

The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

In the media haze of information and mis-information that proliferates about the conflicts that continue to rage throughout Iraq and Syria, there is one word that has emerged over...

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April 22, 2015

Bottled up Gazans, float on plastics

Five Palestinians in Gaza got a lot of bottle and made a boat with it. Residents of the coastal enclave which has suffered under an eight year Israeli siege...

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April 22, 2015

Unity government won’t work without solving employee issue, insists Hamas

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has insisted that the unity government will not work properly until and unless the issue of employees’ pay and status has been resolved, Quds...

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April 22, 2015

ISIS executes three migrants who were expelled from Israel

Three immigrants who were expelled from Israel were among a group who were executed recently in Libya by the Islamic State (ISIS), Haaretz reported. According to the paper, the...

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April 22, 2015

Turkey: 1,300 people deported amid ISIS clampdown

Turkey has deported 1,300 people and issued exclusion bans against 12,800 to date as part of its efforts to prevent people joining ISIS, according to Turkish authorities. Turkey tightened...

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April 22, 2015

University of East Anglia students back boycott of ‘apartheid’ Israel

The University of East Anglia’s student body has endorsed the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in a motion passed last Thursday. Meeting for the final time this...

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April 22, 2015

Sources: Carter seeks Palestinian reconciliation with Saudi mediation

Arab and Palestinian diplomatic sources unveiled an effort led by former US President Jimmy Carter to move the Palestinian reconciliation file with Saudi mediation. The sources, who spoke to...

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April 22, 2015

Palestine is a cause that should transcend party politics

As a Labour party supporter and member of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) I may be somewhat biased in advocating a Labour vote on 7...

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