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March 5, 2015

Amnesty condemns escalating violations in Egypt’s prisons

Amnesty International condemned repeated cases of death as a result of torture in Egyptian detention centres which resulted in the killing of three detainees in the past week in...

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March 5, 2015

Haaretz: Israeli ambassador is persona non grata to US administration

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper said that the US views the Israeli ambassador to American, Ron Dermer, as a persona non grata due to his role in coordinating a controversial speech...

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March 5, 2015

Healing war wounds with yoga

“Will this make my head feel better?” asks one of the men attending Bella Hancock’s yoga classes in Amman, Jordan. As refugees many of her students suffer from post-traumatic...

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March 5, 2015

Egypt, Russia sign military cooperation agreement

Russia and Egypt signed a military- technological cooperation agreement, the Russian defence ministry said yesterday. In a statement published on its website, the ministry said: “A military cooperation joint...

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March 5, 2015

Avaaz – imperialism’s willing collaborator

PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ endeavours to obtain symbolic recognition of Palestinian statehood from European countries had, as intended, eclipsed the necessity of developing awareness of the importance of Palestine’s...

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March 5, 2015

Egypt’s Sisi sacks interior minister in government reshuffle

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has replaced six government ministers, including Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, and ordered the establishment of two new ministerial portfolios, the presidency said Thursday. Magdi Abdel-Ghaffar,...

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March 5, 2015

Seminar: The politics of reconstruction in Gaza

The politics of Gaza’s reconstruction was the topic of discussion at the UK House of Lords yesterday in a seminar jointly organised by Middle East Monitor and the Europal...

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March 5, 2015

Arab diseases: The time of money, vanity and egotism

At our present time, the most influential criterion of evaluating people in the Arab world is the credit in their bank account and how much money they possess. The...

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March 5, 2015

UK watchdog bans Israeli government tourism ad

An Israeli government tourism ad has been banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for misleading readers about the status of Jerusalem. The ‘Israel Land of Creation’ brochure...

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March 5, 2015

Egypt: Rafah border to reopen once PA take control of it

Gaza’s border crossings will be reopened once control of them is handed over to the Palestinian Authority, Egypt’s Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Wael Attia said. The Egyptian...

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