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April 16, 2015

Is there an Arab-Islamic road map to solve Saudi-Iranian escalation?

The conflict involving Saudi Arabia and Iran, plus their allies in the Arab region, looks set to escalate politically, in the media and in the field. In Beirut, we...

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April 16, 2015

Egyptian police shout: ‘Down with military rule’

In a unique incident a quarrel between a police officer and an army pilot over a parking ticket turned into clashes between members of Shebin El-Koum police force and...

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April 16, 2015

UN: 12m children are out of school in the Middle East

Some 12 million children in the Middle East are out of school as a result of poverty, sexual discrimination and violence, in spite of efforts to increase the education...

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April 16, 2015

Houthi official: 40 Egyptian soldiers killed in Abyan Coast

Member of the Houthi political office in Yemen Mohammed Nasser Bukhaiti said his movement has captured and killed 40 Egyptian soldiers in Abyan coast, south Yemen. Bukhaiti, in an...

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April 16, 2015

Saudi rejects Saleh’s request for a safe exit

Yemeni sources have reported that deposed Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has sent messages to Arab Gulf states asking for a safe exit for himself and his family, expressing...

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April 16, 2015

UN envoy calls on Israel to release Palestinian tax revenues

The United Nations official charged with coordinating the Middle East peace process yesterday reiterated his demands to the Israeli authorities to the release millions of dollars in tax revenues...

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April 16, 2015

ISIS seizes village near Ramadi after Iraqi troops withdraw

The Islamic State is reported to have captured another village near the capital of the Anbar province during an attack yesterday morning, police and local officials reported. Hundreds of...

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April 16, 2015

UN chief accuses Syrian regime and six armed groups of sexual violence

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday accused Syrian regime forces and six armed groups of committing rape and other acts of sexual violence in Syria during the...

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April 16, 2015

Libyan General National Congress warns it would quit dialogue

The Libyan General National Congress (GNC) warned that it would suspend participation in the United Nations (UN) backed national dialogue in the Moroccan city of Skhirat, Anadolu news agency...

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April 16, 2015

UKIP: ‘British forces have been deployed in a series of conflicts that seem to have worsened’

UKIP’s recently released manifesto criticises previous government’s deployment of armed forces to Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Libya and Iraq, while maintaining the ‘war on terror.’ The current government has...

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