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February 17, 2014

Russia admits providing Syria with air defence weapons

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister has confirmed that it is still supplying the Syrian regime with arms and ammunition, including air defence weapons. Dmitry Rogozin tried to justify this by saying...

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February 17, 2014

Date harvest begins in Gaza

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Farmers in the Gaza Strip have begun this year’s harvest of dates. About 3,000 dunums (one dunum is equal 1,000 sq metres) are under date cultivation in...

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February 17, 2014

Egypt and Qatar agree on building materials for Gaza reconstruction projects

The London-based newspaper Al Hayat has reported that the Qatari government has reached an agreement with Egypt for building materials to enter Gaza through the Rafah border crossing. Journalist...

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February 17, 2014

Israeli Arabs constitute 11% of undergraduates

Haaretz has reported that an Israeli Council for Higher Education report reveals that only around 11 per cent of undergraduate students are Arab citizens of the state, a figure...

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February 17, 2014

Ghannoushi prefers contesting election within a coalition

Rachid Ghannoushi, the head of Tunisia’s ruling Al-Nahda Party, has said that his movement has not yet decided whether it will run in the upcoming elections on its own...

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February 17, 2014

Islamic University of Gaza awards honorary doctorate to Chomsky

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Islamic University of Gaza yesterday awarded an honorary doctorate to the American linguist and thinker Noam Chomsky. The world renowned figure has been attending a linguistic...

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February 17, 2014

Abbas missed a historic opportunity to break the Gaza siege and end factional division

Qatar University’s professor of political science, Dr Mohammed Al-Mesfer, has stated that the Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani’s visit to the Gaza Strip represents a turning point...

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February 17, 2014

Israel refuses to re-negotiate peace treaty with Egypt

Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Moshe Ya’alon, has revealed that Egypt recently requested that Israel re-negotiate the terms of the peace agreement signed between the...

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February 17, 2014

Israeli-Jordanian tensions over breaches of Wadi Araba Treaty

A report by the state-owned Jordanian News Agency, yesterday confirmed “acute tensions” in Jordanian-Israeli relations caused by Tel Aviv’s failure to fulfil its obligations under the Wadi Araba Peace...

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February 17, 2014

GCC Ministers of Labour honour Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel

In recognition of Bab Rizq Jameel’s contributions to job creation, Engineer Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel has been honoured at the opening ceremony of the 29th session of the GCC...

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