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January 22, 2014

UNESCO postpones Jewish exhibit fearing it will endanger current peace talks

The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO has decided to postpone opening a Jewish exhibition at its headquarters in Paris after Arab states protested. UNESCO’s director general Irina...

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January 22, 2014

Russia steps up milirary aid to Syria, Reuters

Russia has stepped up its military assistance to Syria, including armored vehicles and drones and precision-guided bombs, informed sources told Reuters news agency. A number of sources told Reuters...

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January 8, 2014

Egyptian activists accuse current government of undermining justice (Copy)

One of Egypt’s leading youth activist movements announced on Monday the death of the transitional roadmap that was proposed in the wake of the military coup against the democratically...

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January 8, 2014

Hamas calls on Arab League to protect Palestinians in Syria (Copy)

The Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine has called on the Arab League and human rights organisations to intervene to protect the Palestinians in Syria. Hamas said that such protection...

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January 8, 2014

US outraged by Israel's sale of military equipment to China (Copy)

The sale of Israeli military equipment to China has sparked outrage in the United States, leading to the resignation of an Israeli Defence Ministry official. The Israeli newspaper Maariv...

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January 8, 2014

ICRC: Half a million wounded in Syria but Al-Assad's forces preventing access to aid (Copy)

The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) says that the Syrian authorities are preventing aid from reaching rebel-held areas besieged by government forces, despite having made a request...

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January 8, 2014

On the shifting of positions in the region (Copy)

When you find a report titled “The story of the secret meeting in Beirut: Lines of communication restored between Damascus and Washington” in the pro-resistance newspaper Al-Akhbar, it means...

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January 8, 2014

The Middle East and North Africa suffer the world's highest depression rates, according to new research (Copy)

The study, recently published in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) Journal of Medicine, found that globally, the prevalence of depression was 4.4 per cent, while Afghanistan and the...

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January 8, 2014

Enough conspiracy theories about Yasser Arafat's assassination (Copy)

Palestinians have long suspected their leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Thanks to Clayton Swisher and his team at the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, we have new evidence...

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January 8, 2014

Palestinian Authority denies time limit extension for talks (Copy)

The Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator has denied media claims that the nine-month time limit for negotiations with the Israelis has been extended. Sa’eb Erekat used his Facebook page to...

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