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February 2, 2015

Jordan plans to buy gas from field off Gaza coast

Jordanian Energy Minister Mohamed Hamid said that the kingdom is currently conducting talks with the British Gas Group which discovered the marine gas field about 30 kilometres off the...

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February 2, 2015

Israel welcomes Egypt’s blacklisting of Hamas’ military wing

Israeli officials and commentators welcomed a Cairo court ruling designating Hamas’s military wing, the Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, as a terrorist organisation. Israeli radio yesterday quoted sources at the...

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February 2, 2015

Charges against Israeli war crimes protesters dropped

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped charges against nine activists who occupied the roof of an Elbit Systems factory in Staffordshire during Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip...

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February 2, 2015

Israeli right wing parties seek to bar Zoabi from elections

Israeli right wing parties have submitted a request to the Central Election Committee demanding to ban Arab lawmaker Haneen Zoabi from running in the upcoming general elections scheduled for...

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February 2, 2015

Hamas welcomes PLO’s planned trip to Gaza

Hamas senior leader and spokesman Salah Al-Bardawil said yesterday that his movement welcomes the PLO’s planned visit to the Gaza Strip to discuss the unity government, PLS48.net reported. Al-Bardawil...

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February 2, 2015

Food prices in Egypt to increase by 15%

Egyptian food companies yesterday increased food prices by 15 per cent due to the strength of the dollar. Deputy Head of the Chamber of Food Industries Ibrahim Al-Imbabi said...

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February 2, 2015

637,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan

The official number of Syrian refugees in Jordan is approximately 637,000, the Anadolu Agency reported. 1,385,971 number of displaced Syrians living in Jordan Brigadier General Waddah Hmoud, director of...

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February 2, 2015

Egypt to import natural gas directly from Noble Energy

A senior official from Egypt’s natural gas holding company, EGAS, said on Sunday that Egypt plans to import Israeli natural gas directly from American oil firm, Noble Energy without...

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February 2, 2015

Israel values cattle more than its foreign workers

The Israeli government has come under fire for allowing the abuse of 25,000 Thai migrant workers, who make up almost the entire agricultural workforce. According to a recent report...

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February 2, 2015

The rise of ‘pro-Israelism’ in American politics

The US-Israel special relationship is acknowledged universally as the unswayable force of politics in the Middle East. The theme is confessed ritually by every US president and Israeli prime...

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