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June 7, 2014

Fatah and Hamas: spontaneous combustion

Barely had the pictures of the Palestinian unity government been published, when skirmishes broke out around ATMs in Gaza between Hamas and Fatah government workers. Under the agreement, the...

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June 7, 2014

UN: about 14,000 Libyans and refugees live ‘deplorable conditions’ in jails

About 14,000 Libyans and refuges, most of them from Middle Eastern countries, now live in overcrowded prisons in Libya. A UN statement on Friday said the detainees are often...

News
June 7, 2014

The plight of Palestinian woman blinded by occupation forces

Ayat Mahfouz, 22, is a Palestinian woman from the West Bank city of Hebron. She has lived with the fear of blindness since she was aged two. In the...

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June 7, 2014

Egyptians for Democracy – UK slams EU stance on Egypt’s presidential elections

Egyptians for Democracy – UK has described the EU’s stance on Egypt’s presidential elections as particularly objectionable given that Field Marshall Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi has committed what Human Rights...

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June 7, 2014

Egypt sentences 10 Brotherhood leaders to death

An Egyptian court on Saturday referred ten Muslim Brotherhood leaders charged with inciting violence to Egypt’s grand mufti, the country’s highest religious authority, to consider possible death sentences against...

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June 7, 2014

Force-feeding within the wider spectrum of torture and complicity in Israeli jails

In a typically aggressive response to Palestinian prisoners expressing resistance through hunger strikes against administrative detention, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to implement a bill that would...

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June 7, 2014

Ki-moon concerned about condition of Palestinian hunger-strikers in Israeli jails

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed Friday his “grave concerns” for the “poor health” conditions of Palestinian hunger-strikers inside Israeli jails. He called on the Israeli authorities to bring...

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June 7, 2014

Armed confrontation in Benghazi looks set to escalate

The failure of General Khalifa Haftar’s forces to enter Benghazi and the reduction in casualty statistics have pushed him to use air and artillery power to weaken his enemies....

Article
June 6, 2014

Gulf’s billions are not enough to save the Egyptian economy

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have transferred billions of dollars to Egypt since the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood, to heal the rift that hit the...

News
June 6, 2014

Haaretz: US accuses Israel of hypocrisy

At a time when the Israeli government threatened to impose increasing sanctions against the Palestinians, the US has accused it of hypocrisy, after Benjamin Netenyahu’s government transferred great amounts...

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