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June 24, 2014

Syria’s remaining chemical stockpile shipped out

The final batch of Syria’s declared chemical weapons was shipped out on Monday, the Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ahmet Uzumcu, announced during...

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June 24, 2014

Egyptian Army destroys over 1,700 tunnels on its border with Gaza

The Egyptian Army destroyed two tunnels on the Egyptian-Gazan border, bringing the total number of tunnels ruined to 1,736. Security sources said that Egyptian border guards have continued their...

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June 24, 2014

Red Cross: Force-feeding prisoners is ‘illegal’

The International committee of the Red Cross warned doctors against force-feeding Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike for 62 days. Healthcare in Detention Coordinator at ICRC Raed...

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June 24, 2014

Iran and Russia to sign deal to build 2 nuclear plants

Iran and Russia are preparing to sign an agreement to build two nuclear plants in Iran; Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) quoted an official as saying. The spokesman for...

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June 24, 2014

Laddish Ed Husain wears veil of misogyny

While many of us were still reeling in shock over the brutal murder of veiled Essex PhD student Nahid Almanea, the reaction of one man sitting in judgment thousands...

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June 24, 2014

IDF asks why Shin Bet failed to warn about settler kidnap

Israeli media reported on Tuesday that, 12 days after the disappearance of three settlers, some officers in the Israel Defence Forces are expressing disappointment over the investigation carried out...

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June 24, 2014

Longest hunger striker rearrested by Israel

Samer Al-Issawi, who was on hunger strike in an Israeli jail from 1 August 2012 to 23 April 2013, has been rearrested by the occupation authorities. According to the...

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June 24, 2014

UNESCO places Jerusalem on ‘List of World Heritage in Danger’

The World Heritage Committee in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Monday approved a resolution to place the old city of Jerusalem on the “List...

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June 24, 2014

International anger over Egyptian verdict against Al-Jazeera journalists

US Secretary of State John Kerry described on Monday the Egyptian Criminal Court’s decision to sentence three Al-Jazeera journalists to between seven to ten years in prison as “chilling...

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June 24, 2014

The difference between miners and Muslims

There has been much speculation and hyperbole in recent days over young men who’ve travelled from Britain to fight in Syria and Iraq. Angst-ridden parents are begging their sons...

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