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September 24, 2014

Rouhani: US attacks on Syria are ‘illegal’

Airstrikes being launched by a US led coalition against Islamic State (ISIS) targets are “illegal”, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said. In an interview on American TV in New York...

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September 24, 2014

The curtailing of NGO freedom in Israel

It wasn’t a shock when Ayman Nasser, the coordinator of the legal unit of the prisoner rights group Addameer was arrested by Israeli forces in the early hours of...

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September 23, 2014

Labour leader Ed Miliband confirms support for UN resolution on ISIS

At the Labour party conference in Manchester, the party’s leader Ed Miliband confirmed his support for a UN Security Council resolution regarding military strikes on Islamic State targets in...

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September 23, 2014

Reasons behind the rapid spread of ISIS in north-east Syria

The rapid progress of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the villages surrounding the Ain Al-Arab (Kobani) region, located in the north-eastern province of Aleppo, has been striking. During the...

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September 23, 2014

In New York, Mahmoud Abbas gives weak rhetoric about freedom

Before his address at the UN General Assembly in New York, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gave a short speech at the Cooper Union, a university in downtown Manhattan,...

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September 23, 2014

Danish FM threatens Israel with sanctions

Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard yesterday called for “taking new steps, including changes to our trade relations with Israel” in order to force it to make concessions in its...

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September 23, 2014

Unrest continues in Yemen day after the peace agreement

Despite Sunday’s peace agreement in Yemen, the Houthi group still refuses to withdraw from sites they had previously controlled. Militants affiliated to the Houthis have stormed the home of...

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September 23, 2014

ISIS affiliated group kidnaps Frenchman in Algeria

An Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate group yesterday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Frenchman in an area to the east of Algiers, calling on the French President Francois...

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September 23, 2014

Sisi sets conditions to reconcile with Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt’s military backed President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi has said that reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) would not be carried out unless the group recognises the June 30 revolution...

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September 23, 2014

UN and US promotion of surveillance and abuse under the guise of humanitarian aid

Palestinians in Gaza are to encounter further imperialist interference during the already compromised reconstruction process of the enclave. Following his discourse at the UN Security Council in which Israelis...

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