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March 16, 2015

Egypt buys electricity from private sector

The Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy has signed an agreement to buy electricity from two private sector plants, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah reported. A statement, released on...

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March 16, 2015

Jordan’s Brotherhood leader appeals jail term

The deputy head of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Zaki Bani Irsheid yesterday appealed an 18-month prison sentence handed to him on charges of harming his country’s relations with the United...

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March 16, 2015

Kerry: US must eventually negotiate with Assad

The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad to remove him from power; Secretary of State John Kerry is reported to have said. During...

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March 15, 2015

MEMO’s Mohammed Asad wins photography award

MEMO photographer Mohammed Asad’s photo of Dalia Khalifa won an award last week at a competition organised by the UN. “Unbreakable” – is the photo of nine-year-old Dalia Khalifa,...

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March 15, 2015

26 of our favourite #AskHamas tweets

On Friday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched a social media campaign, #AskHamas, to reach out to the world. The campaign was launched given the imminent deadline for appeals...

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March 15, 2015

Gaza blockade opens door for ‘new war’: UNRWA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned of the ramification of the ongoing Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, saying it could open the way for a...

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March 15, 2015

Egypt needs $200-300bn for development: Sisi

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Sunday that his country needs between $200 to $300 billion for development. Al-Sisi’s remarks came during the closing session of Egypt Economic Development Conference,...

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March 15, 2015

From Palestine to Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish was born in the Galilean village of al-Birwa of March 13th 1941. Forced from his home village in 1948, along with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Darwish...

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March 15, 2015

Turkey and Qatar look to be building a new alliance

The chairman of the Turkish parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Bara’a Juncker, announced recently that it had adopted a draft resolution for a cooperation agreement between Turkey and Qatar. The...

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March 15, 2015

Qatar calls for honoring Gaza financial pledges

Mohammed al-Amadi, the head of the Qatari Committee to Rebuild the Gaza Strip, on Saturday called on the international community to fulfil the financial pledges it made for the...

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