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March 15, 2014

Middle East leads global defence spending

The IHS Jane’s Annual Defence Budgets Review has released a new report predicting that global defence spending will rise in 2014 to reach $1.547 trillion, compared to last year’s...

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March 15, 2014

Israeli army report reveals intelligence and security relations with several Arab and Muslim countries

The official website of the Israeli army released an unprecedented report on Tuesday claiming that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has been cooperating closely with a number of Arab and...

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March 15, 2014

17,000 could have been tortured to death in Al-Assad’s prisons

Some 17,000 Syrians held in Al-Assad’s prisons are feared dead as news of the torture of a further 11,000 detains also emerges, a Syrian human rights organisation said. The...

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March 15, 2014

Israeli minister: There can be only one state between the river and the sea

Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction Uri Ariel vowed on Tuesday afternoon that there would never be any other state between the Jordan River and the sea except for...

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March 15, 2014

Libya destroys its chemical arsenal

The Libyan government announced on Tuesday that its chemical arsenal, which it had inherited from the Qaddafi regime, has been completely destroyed. The Libyan foreign ministry issued a statement...

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March 15, 2014

Israel agrees to increase compensation for Turks killed on-board Mavi Marmara

Turkey and Israel are close to reaching a deal for compensation on the killing, in 2010, of Turks on-board of Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandoes, when the ship was...

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March 15, 2014

Faaborg-Andersen: Israel faces danger of full isolation if peace talks collapse

The EU’s ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, warned on Monday that Israel would find itself in complete isolation should the peace talks with the Palestinians collapse. In an interview...

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March 15, 2014

Lacking Energy: Egypt’s economic crisis

Government estimates forecast Egypt’s energy crisis will worsen in the next fiscal year with the failure of gas production to accommodate the growing domestic demand, Reuters news agency reported...

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March 15, 2014

Fatah insists on Palestinian state based on 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital

Fatah’s Central Committee denied on Monday any solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without East Jerusalem as a capital for the Palestinian state. The Central Committee, convened in Ramallah and...

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March 15, 2014

Israeli army destroys Hebron nature reserve

The Israeli army has destroyed a nature reserve and uprooted agricultural seedlings near the city of Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank. The 1,200 acre reserve...

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