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May 4, 2014

On International Workers’ Day there are 370,000 unemployed Palestinians

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas should permanently join the International Labour Organisation and sign all its conventions, Secretary General of Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) Shaher...

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May 4, 2014

Mysterious blast sinks Gaza’s anti-siege boat

Gaza’s Ark, a boat docked at a fishing harbour in Gaza, exploded yesterday, the spokesperson for the ship Mahfouz Kabariti told AFP. “The guard received an anonymous call that...

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May 4, 2014

Saudi forces conduct massive military drills

Saudi forces conducted on Tuesday their largest military drills to date, which were carried out in front of foreign officials along the Saudi borders with Iraq and Kuwait. The...

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May 4, 2014

US: Palestinian aid will stop if Hamas joins government

US lawmakers warned yesterday that US might freeze its annual aid to the Palestinian Authority if the Islamic Resistance movement Hamas joined a national consensus government. Assistant Secretary for...

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May 4, 2014

Gunmen attack Libya’s parliament, stop vote on new prime minister

Gunmen attacked Libya’s parliament on Tuesday forcing lawmakers to postpone the second round of voting to choose the country’s new prime minister. In the first round of voting, businessman...

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May 4, 2014

Iraqis to vote in first parliament elections since US withdrawal

At least 9,000 candidates are competing over the Iraqi parliament’s 328 seats in the country’s first legislative elections since US troops withdrew three years ago. Nearly 21 million of...

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May 4, 2014

El-Baradei pays tribute to Egyptian activist who died in suspicious circumstances

Egyptian activist and blogger Bassem Sabry has reportedly died after he went into a diabetic seizure and fell off a 10th floor balcony yesterday, social media reports claim. Sabry,...

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May 4, 2014

Riyadh is angry with the UAE over efforts to sabotage relations with Doha

According to Al-Amat online news site, Saudi Arabia has intercepted communications between the office of Abu-Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin-Zayed and former Palestinian national security advisor Mohamed Dahlan...

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May 4, 2014

Egypt calls on the world to respect the independence of its judiciary

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry called on the world to respect the independence of its judiciary. Badr Abdel-Atti, the spokesman for the ministry, said in a statement: “All countries of...

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May 4, 2014

German newspapers criticise Egypt’s mass death sentences

German newspapers condemned the mass death sentences handed down by the Egyptian Minya Criminal Court on Monday, dismissing them as politically motivated. The Zuddeutsche Zeitung newspaper stated that the...

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