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April 22, 2015

Turkey deplores Morsi jail sentence in Egypt

Turkey has deplored the sentencing of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and others to 20 years in jail by an Egyptian court on violence-related charges. The Turkish Foreign Ministry...

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April 22, 2015

Two-state prospects diminishing, says UN chief

The very possibility of reaching a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to recede with potentially explosive consequences, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. In a briefing to...

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April 22, 2015

Amnesty calls for Morsi to receive fair retrial

Amnesty International yesterday called for ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to receive a fair retrial in a civilian court in line with international standards or to be released. The...

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April 22, 2015

Official: GCC leaders to meet in Riyadh ahead of Obama summit

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders will hold a “consultative summit” in Riyadh on 5 May ahead of their meeting with US President Barack Obama scheduled for 14 May in...

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April 21, 2015

Saudi Arabia to deploy ground troops in Yemen

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Abdulaziz on Tuesday ordered the deployment of an elite ground unit in the country’s ongoing campaign against Yemen’s Shiite Houthi militant group, Saudi’s official news...

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April 21, 2015

Morsi’s hearing fell ‘below the standards of a fair trial’

The 20-year sentence given to Egypt’s first freely elected President Mohamed Morsi “is symptomatic of the deepening human rights crisis in Egypt”, the London-based ITN Solicitors, who represent the...

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April 21, 2015

The phoney ‘enlightenment’ battles in Egypt

Nothing is more indicative of the intellectual vacuum and political bankruptcy in Egypt than the ruckus caused by the phoney “enlightenment” battles on the nightly television programmes. It seems...

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April 21, 2015

Palestinian Foreign Ministry makes renewed calls to halt Israeli attempts to divide Al-Aqsa

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has renewed its call to international and Islamic bodies to stop Israeli attempts to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque temporally and spatially. In a statement, made available...

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April 21, 2015

What’s really behind Morsi’s guilty verdict?

Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in jail today. Taking his age into consideration, he’s 63, and the fact that the average life expectance in...

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April 21, 2015

Palestine’s youngest political prisoner welcomed back to Ramallah

Amongst a host of events to mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, families of political prisoners gathered outside the Ramallah offices of the International Red Cross to welcome 15 year old...

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