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January 31, 2015

Turkey and the development of democracy in the Middle East

Yaşar Yakış is the former foreign minister of Turkey, and a former ambassador to the UN Office in Vienna, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. The evolution of democracy in the...

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January 31, 2015

Sinai attacks double economic losses in Egypt

The large-scale human casualties of the Sinai attacks have been dwarfed in importance to the Egyptian government by their effect on the economy. The economic losses are even more...

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January 31, 2015

US says Israeli settlements illegitimate

State Department says settlements will have detrimental effects, inflame already heightened tensions with Palestinians and further isolate Israel internationally Israel’s approval for the construction of new settlements in the...

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January 31, 2015

The slaying of the Saudi spider

The palace coup is complete. In a far-reaching decree on Thursday night, the new Saudi king Salman unraveled the legacy of his half-brother Abdullah and set the kingdom on...

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January 31, 2015

Tunisian journalists call for media law to be applied

The National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) called on Friday for the application of the law that protects and organises media work and guarantees equality among all media corporations,...

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January 31, 2015

Main Yemeni parties quit UN-sponsored meeting

Yemen’s General People’s Congress (GPC) and the Southern Separatist Movement have withdrawn from a United Nations-sponsored meeting, it has been reported. A source in the GPC, whose leader is...

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January 31, 2015

Hamas denies involvement in Sinai attacks

A spokesman for Hamas has denied any involvement in the recent attacks in the Sinai Peninsula. Salah Al-Bardawil condemned the accusations made by the Egyptian media linking the movement’s...

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January 31, 2015

Grand Mufti denounces Israel’s arrest of Palestinian children

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem has denounced Israel’s arrest and interrogation of Palestinian children, as well as the long sentences they are given, Jordan’s Al-Sabeel newspaper has reported. Shaikh...

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January 30, 2015

Ethno-sectarian hypocrisy and the media in Iraq

Since the forces of the Islamic State (ISIS) blitzed through northern Iraq all the way down to the outskirts of Baghdad last summer, Iraq has been in the news...

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January 30, 2015

Israel may be arming Al-Qaeda in Syria

A perennial PR theme of the Syrian regime since the civil war and uprising erupted in March 2011 was that the opposition was all Islamist extremists and Al-Qaeda, and...

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