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  • February 23, 2015

    Tomb raider, Turkish style

    Turkey has raised quite a few eyebrows with its latest foray into foreign affairs. In the early hours of Sunday morning, the Turkish government authorised the army to deploy...

    Article

  • February 23, 2015

    Advocating violence through silence: the anti-Islamist West

    Last Sunday, three UAE citizens, sisters Asma Khalifa Al-Suwaidi, Mariam Khalifa Al-Suwaidi and Alyaziyah Khalifa Al-Suwaidi, were told to report to an Abu Dhabi police station. The trio had...

    Article

  • February 23, 2015

    Danish business on stolen land

    Last Thursday, one of Denmark’s biggest newspapers, Politiken, published an article which described the occupied Palestinian territories as part of Israel. Despite the picturesque nomenclature on the Dead Sea...

    Article

  • February 23, 2015

    One million widows in Iraq

    Iraq’s violent conflict has left as many as one million widows over the past few years, the country’s Minister of Women’s Affairs Bayan Nouri said yesterday. In a press...

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  • February 23, 2015

    Libya Dawn ready to participate in reconciliation talks

    Libya Dawn fighters announced yesterday that they are ready to participate in national reconciliation efforts taking place between the country’s warring parties, the Anadolu Agency reported. The group said...

    News

  • February 23, 2015

    UNRWA needs $100m in urgent relief to repair Gaza homes

    UNRWA needs $100 million in urgent relief in the first quarter of this year to enable it to help repair homes destroyed during Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip...

  • February 23, 2015

    So that Egypt doesn’t fall into the ISIS trap

    By rejecting President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi’s call for military intervention in Libya, the UN Security Council and the international community have saved Egypt from falling into a trap set...

    Article

  • February 22, 2015

    Theresa May’s latest crackpot election scheme

    One of the most uncertain British General Elections for decades is looming and creating panic among the major political parties who can no longer take the electorate or their...

    Article

  • February 22, 2015

    The Week in Pictures

    ISTANBUL, TURKEY: A tourist feeds the birds at the German Fountain in Sultanahmet Square. TUNIS, TUNISIA: Al-Zaytuna Mosque, which dates back to 699AD. The mosque is currently embroiled in...

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  • February 22, 2015

    Former Kuwaiti MP jailed for ‘insulting emir’

    A Kuwaiti court on Sunday sentenced prominent opposition figure and former MP Musallam al-Barrak to two years in prison over charges of insulting the Kuwaiti emir, a judicial source...

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