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April 12, 2014

Filippo Grandi ends term as UNRWA Commissioner-General: ‘Palestinian Refugees Will Find Justice in the End’

Filippo Grandi ends his four-year term as UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General on 29 March, and is handing over to the Swiss national, Pierre Krähenbühl. Mr. Grandi,...

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April 12, 2014

Saudi names second heir to the throne

Prince Muqrin Bin Abdul Aziz has been named deputy Crown Prince making him officially second inline to succeed King Abdullah and Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi...

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April 12, 2014

Egypt: Clashes erupt between security forces and students at Cairo University

Hundreds of students demonstrated around the main building of Cairo University demanding the downfall of the coup regime and a halt of the academic year until the return of...

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April 12, 2014

Kerry not ready to announce failure of peace talks

Senior aide of the Palestinian Authority President (PA) Mahmoud Abbas revealed on Thursday that During his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmous Abbas yesterday, US Secretary of State John Kerry...

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April 12, 2014

Syrian opposition coalition slams Arab League’s final statement as ‘waste of time’

The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces has strongly criticised the final statement of the Arab League’s summit in Kuwait, which called for a political solution to...

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April 12, 2014

Israel to lift siege on Gaza to restore Turkish relations

Israel will pay $21 million in compensation and lift the Gaza siege to restore relations with Turkey after the Mavi Marmara raid that left nine Turkish nationals dead, Turkish...

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April 12, 2014

13 protesters arrested in Morocco

Moroccan police have arrested 13 people following clashes between police forces and demonstrators protesting against police brutality in Tiflet, 54 Kilometres east of the capital Rabat; human rights activists...

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April 12, 2014

Putin to Arab League: Russia will continue working for the establishment of a viable Palestinian state

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed that his country will continue “working for a fair and stable resolution of the Palestinian problem by means of creating an independent, viable,...

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April 12, 2014

Human rights group: Israeli soldiers to blame for killing Palestinian boy

The Israeli army is to blame for the death of 14-year-old Palestinian boy Yousef Al-Shawamreh last week, Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem said yesterday. In a statement published on...

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April 12, 2014

Systematic torture of children in Egypt

The London-based Arab Organization for Human rights (AOHR) issued a report Thursday titled: “Children without Rights” in which it documented the systematic torture and arbitrary arrests of children in...

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