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July 4, 2014

Tunisian opposition: Transparency requirements for holding next elections do not exist yet

Opposition politician Hamma Hammami is holding the current Tunisian government of Mehdi Goma`a, the National Constituent Assembly and the Electoral commission fully responsible for the lack of transparency needed...

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July 4, 2014

17 EU countries warn against doing business with Israeli settlements

Twelve European Union countries warned their citizens yesterday against engagement in business deals or investing in the illegal Israeli settlements or with bodies connected to them in the...

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July 4, 2014

Iraq seeks to recover over $40 billion from US

Iraq is trying to recover nearly $41 billion after the US has refused to deliver the F16 aircrafts the Iraqi government had paid for, Anadolu news agency quoted an...

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July 4, 2014

Britain’s biggest trade union slams Israeli apartheid, commits to BDS campaigning

Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union, has slammed Israel as “guilty of the crime of apartheid” and committed itself to BDS campaigning. The Labour party’s biggest union backer considered three...

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July 4, 2014

Palestinian farmers incur losses worth $2.5 million due to Israeli bombardment

Mohammed Al-Shaer, the director of Al-Mohararat agricultural region in Gaza, has said that the value of the losses caused by Israeli raids this week is estimated at $2.5 million....

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July 4, 2014

Moroccan government spokesperson on the democratic spring, the Western Sahara and regional cooperation

Mustapha El-Khalfi calls the Arab Spring of 2011 the “democratic spring” though it’s hard to see how it earned that name. There is a civil war raging in Syria,...
July 4, 2014

Israel prevents hundreds of Palestinians from entering Jerusalem during Ramadan

The Israeli authorities prevented hundreds of Palestinians from entering Jerusalem to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan, Anadolu news agency reported. Witnesses said the Israeli...

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July 4, 2014

Dutch pension fund ABP divests from two Israeli arms companies

Dutch pension fund ABP has divested from two Israeli companies for their role in producing cluster munitions. Aryt Industries Ltd. and Ashot Ashkelon both appear on a list dated...

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July 4, 2014

The official return of Israel’s punitive house demolitions

Thirteen family members sat on the remnants of their home early Wednesday morning. The house, in the West Bank village of Idna, was destroyed after hundreds of Israeli soldiers...

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July 4, 2014

Tony Blair and the Gulf Neocons

A year on from the coup that brought Egypt’s encounter with democracy to a premature end, the country is locked into a state of crisis. The prisons are full....

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