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January 27, 2015

New Greek government’s pro-Palestine stance not as strong as Israelis fear

The parochial Israeli press has been reacting with concern to the election victory in Greece of Syriza, the left-wing anti-austerity party. While the parochial British press has been fretting...

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January 27, 2015

New film ‘Journalists under Fire’ launched in Gaza

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) held a meeting in Gaza city yesterday (26 January) to present its special report and short documentary film on the...

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January 27, 2015

ElBaradei: ‘Islamists mustn’t be removed from political arena’

Egyptian Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei said that Islamists “must not be removed from the political arena” in Egypt and it is a “mistake to push them underground”. Speaking to...

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January 27, 2015

Assad: Washington must seek Syria’s permission to launch air strikes against ISIS militants in Syria

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has said that US-led air strikes on ISIS fighters in his country must be based on a prior agreement with Damascus, and that Syrian troops...

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January 27, 2015

Blind Palestinian girl sees hope in her future

Wardah Musa is a 23-year-old Palestinian girl from Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip faced all challenges after she lost her sight because of a rare disease nearly...

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January 27, 2015

US prevented Israeli sale of used helicopters to Nigeria

Last summer the United States thwarted the sale of used Cobra helicopters by Israel to Nigeria, Israeli media has reported. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the US blocked the deal...

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January 27, 2015

Egypt ‘dismayed’ by world outcry over protester deaths

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry says it is “dismayed” by regional and international condemnation of the killing on Sunday of protesters marking the fourth anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 popular uprising....

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January 27, 2015

Hamas: We view Egyptian court’s decision positively

The Hamas movement has said that it views positively the verdict of the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters to reject the lawsuit that would seek to declare Hamas as...

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January 27, 2015

HRW calls for Egypt to probe ‘excessive use of force’

The New York-based Human Rights Watch called on Sunday for “an independent investigation into the authorities’ excessive use of force” to quell “apparently peaceful protests”. “Four years after...

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January 27, 2015

Palestinian student arrested after Facebook post

Palestinian intelligence services arrested a media student yesterday morning for “insulting a public official”. Bara Al-Qadi, 22, posted a status on Facebook mocking Jibril Rajoub, also known as Abu...

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