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November 29, 2018

Repression of the BDS movement is a sure sign of its success

Despite powerful and globally coordinated Israeli attacks against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, BDS is not simply surviving; it is thriving. That is the conclusion of a new...

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November 29, 2018

Arab League: Embassy transfers from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem ‘illegal’

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has called on countries around the world not to consider moving their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, saying this would be “illegal”....

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November 29, 2018

Palestinian scholars condemn normalising ties with Israel

The Palestinian Union of Religious Scholars has condemned the normalisation of ties with Israel as a “stab in the heart of the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic nations.” A statement...

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November 29, 2018

Iraq: 1,900 bodies recovered from under rubble in Mosul

Iraqi civil defence forces have recovered 1,900 bodies from the rubble in the northern city of Mosul. Civil defence officer Fahd Al-Abed told the Anadolu Agency that most of...

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November 29, 2018

US official: War on Al-Shabaab not lost in Somalia

A senior US official said today the war against Al-Shabaab has not been lost in spite of a series of recent attacks across Somalia, including in the capital Mogadishu. US Assistant...

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November 29, 2018

Erekat applauds Chile for standing by Palestinian rights

Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, yesterday applauded the Chilean parliament for standing by Palestinian rights in a resolution it passed calling on its...

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November 29, 2018

Turkey renames Ankara US embassy road 'Malcolm X Avenue'

Turkish municipal workers replace the street sign on the road on which the new American embassy is being built in Ankara to Malcolm X Avenue to honour the civil...

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November 29, 2018

Israel will not appoint a new ambassador to Turkey

Israel said it had decided not to appoint a new ambassador to Turkey, in response to Ankara’s refusal to return its ambassador to Tel Aviv. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman...

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November 29, 2018

Palestine envoy: No settlement without Jerusalem as our capital

Palestinians won’t accept any political settlement with Israel that does not include Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state, the Palestinian ambassador to Egypt said yesterday. “There...

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November 29, 2018

Did Libya gain anything from the Palermo conference?

The Palermo conference on Libya went ahead as scheduled — 12/13 November — with all of the local protagonists present, along with many regional and international players. Italy finally...

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