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February 28, 2015

Palestinian tanneries at risk of closure

In the years before the establishment of the State of Israel, caravans and traders from neighbouring Arab states crossed open borders bringing hides from Damascus, Beirut and Cairo that...

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February 28, 2015

Belgium to send 35 soldiers to Iraq

Belgium is to send 35 soldiers to Iraq to help train the Iraqi army in the fight against ISIS, AFP reported on Friday. The troops are expected to leave...

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February 28, 2015

Gulf states move embassies to Aden

The UAE and Kuwait said on Friday that their embassies in Yemen have moved to the southern city of Aden, one day after Saudi Arabia took the same step....

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February 28, 2015

Egypt sentences four Brotherhood members to death for HQ violence

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced four Muslim Brotherhood members to death – two in absentia – over charges of killing demonstrators outside the group’s headquarters in 2013, a judicial source...

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February 28, 2015

Hamas slams Egyptian court for ‘terrorist’ label

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, denounced as “shocking” on Saturday an Egyptian court decision to designate the group as a “terrorist organisation”. This, spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told...

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February 28, 2015

Assyrian Chaldean Syriac population is under threat, warn Lebanese Christians

Lebanese Christian parties warned on Friday that the existence of the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac population is being threatened by ethnic cleansing, religious persecution and systematic displacement, Anadolu has reported....

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February 28, 2015

Italy votes to support a Palestinian state and resumption of talks

Italian MPs have backed a non-binding resolution to encourage the government to recognise Palestine as a state, Anadolu reported today. In a separate resolution, the parliamentarians called for the...

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February 28, 2015

EU missions denounce Jewish settler attacks on mosque and church

The European Union’s diplomatic missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah have denounced recent attacks by extremist Jewish settlers on Muslim and Christian religious sites in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, it...
February 27, 2015

SOAS votes for academic boycott of Israel

SOAS students and staff have endorsed an academic boycott of Israel, after the results of a week-long referendum were released Friday evening. The vote, open to students, academics, and...

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February 27, 2015

Israel and the PA in an enduring unbalanced relationship

The relationship between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) has never been an easy one, but has been in a particularly bad state since last April, when Mahmoud Abbas’s...

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