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June 24, 2014

New Jewish leader bans women from higher education

The ultra-orthodox Jewish movement Shas’ new spiritual leader Rabbi Shalom Cohen announced his strong opposition to ultra-Orthodox Jewish women entering higher education, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported today. Ultra-Orthodox Jews...

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June 24, 2014

Israel cuts off electricity in Ramallah over unpaid debt

Israel Electric Corp cut off electricity to Ramallah this morning over unpaid debts which amount to 974 million shekels (£166.8 million), CEO of the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO)...

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June 24, 2014

Hamdallah: We cannot pay Gaza employees’ salaries

The head of the unity government Rami Hamdallah said that his government cannot pay the salaries of the employees of the Gaza Strip because it is passing through a...

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June 24, 2014

Midnight suicide bomb kills one and wounds 20 in Beirut

One person was killed and 20 more were wounded by a suicide car bombing at a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Beirut on Monday night, the Lebanese Red Cross and...

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June 24, 2014

Egypt: Alaa Al-Aswany quits writing for Al-Masry Al-Youm

Egyptian writer and novelist Alaa Al-Aswany announced yesterday that he has stopped writing for the daily Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, citing a lack of freedom. Al-Aswany, who has been a...

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June 24, 2014

Palestinians protest against PA-Israeli ‘Security Coordination’

Amidst the heaviest Israeli military invasion of the West Bank since the Second Intifada, another 2 Palestinians were killed over Sunday night. In Nablus’ al-Ein refugee camp, 27 year...

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June 24, 2014

Egypt rejects international criticism of Al-Jazeera journalists’ sentences

Egypt rejected international criticism of the verdicts handed to three Al-Jazeera journalists yesterday. In a statement the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said it “strongly rejects any comment by a foreign...

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June 24, 2014

Calls for Barghouti to declare his position on security coordination

Fatah’s youth movement has asked Marwan Barghouti, the senior official held in an Israeli jail, to state his position on President Mahmoud Abbas’ recent statement regarding security coordination and...

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June 24, 2014

Badie: ‘The death sentence does not scare me’

The Supreme Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Dr Mohammed Badie said, during his trial yesterday, that the death sentence he received on Saturday does not scare him. Badie and...

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June 24, 2014

International outrage as Egypt jails journalists

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday condemned the sentences handed down by an Egyptian court against three Al-Jazeera journalists and 15 others. During his visit to Iraq, Kerry...

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