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January 6, 2022

Abbas and his ‘optimism’ spell danger for Palestinians

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is arguably more partial to fairy tales than politics. His latest address to the Fatah Revolutionary Council sums up all that is wrong with...

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January 6, 2022

The Netherlands stops funding Palestinian NGO

The Netherlands has stopped funding the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), one of the six Palestinian human rights organisations designated as “terrorists” by Israel last year. According to...

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January 6, 2022

Israeli tanks fire warning shots across Syrian border in Golan Heights

Israeli tanks opened fire across the Syrian border yesterday, in an attempt to give a warning to several suspicious and identified figures spotted manning military posts on the Syrian...

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January 6, 2022

The Abbas-Gantz meeting broke the deadlock without any major promises

A week after the meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Benny Gantz at the Israeli Defence Minister’s home, reactions are ongoing. Opinions vary: some approve, others oppose;...

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January 6, 2022

Employer assaults migrant worker in Lebanon, igniting debate on kafala system

A video showing a Lebanese man assaulting a foreign worker in a town in Lebanon has gone viral on social media, raising concerns of the lack of foreign workers’...

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January 6, 2022

Tunisia’s Ennahda denounces ‘politicised’ charges against Bhiri

On Tuesday, Tunisia’s Ennahda movement denounced the charges against its detained Vice-President Noureddine Bhiri, and said they are “politicised”. On Monday, Tunisian Interior Minister, Taoufik Charfeddine, announced that Ennahda’s...

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January 6, 2022

Egypt: ‘dilapidated’ homes to be demolished to build tower blocks

The Cairo Governorate in Egypt is planning to demolish the Sixth District in Nasr City and replace the homes there with residential tower blocks, the state-owned Akhbar Al-Youm has...

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January 6, 2022

2 Palestinians killed by Israel, settlers in West Bank

Two Palestinians were killed this morning by Israel in separate occasions in the occupied West Bank, reported Wafa news agency. Bakir Hashash, 21, was shot in the head after the Israeli...

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January 6, 2022

Afghan provincial intelligence chief killed in road accident

A provincial intelligence chief was killed in a traffic accident in Afghanistan, an official said on Thursday and reported by Anadolu News Agency. Mawlawi Ulfat Hashimi was killed in...

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January 6, 2022

Has Turkey abandoned Assad’s departure as a condition for progress?

The four Turkish conditions for the withdrawal of its troops from Syria, as reported in the media, have raised questions about the reality of Turkey’s position on the regime...

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