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  • September 27, 2019

    Yemen government names new interim capital

    The Saudi-backed Yemeni government has announced that it’s new interim capital will be the city of Ataq. Since the Houthi expansion in the north of the country in 2014,...

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  • September 27, 2019

    US to deploy troops, weapons to Saudi Arabia 

    The US has announced that it will provide further military boost to Saudi Arabia following the attack on the kingdom’s oil facilities earlier this month. Roughly 200 troops, a...

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  • September 27, 2019

    Iran may dodge a bullet thanks to Trump’s misfortune 

    It is hard to view US President Donald Trump’s Iran policy as anything but an own goal. His decision to unliterally withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal and embark...

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  • September 27, 2019

    Anglican Church of Southern Africa votes to join BDS

    The highest and most prominent decision-making body of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) yesterday voted to join and support the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement...

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  • September 27, 2019

    Arab Israelis to strike calling for greater policing

    Students in the Arab-Israeli town of Umm Al-Fahm will go on strike on Sunday in an effort to highlight the increasing levels of violence and crime rocking the Palestinian...

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  • September 27, 2019

    Israel and the evolution of asymmetric warfare

    War, wrote the 19th century Prussian General and military strategist Carl von Clausewitz, is an “act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” This is an...

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  • September 27, 2019

    Despite Saudi objections, UN to extend probe into abuses in Yemen

    The UN Human Rights Council yesterday voted in favour of extending an investigation into war crimes committed in Yemen. This follows a group of experts on Yemen reporting earlier...

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  • September 27, 2019

    Israel displaces Al-Araqeeb villagers for 162nd time

    Israeli authorities yesterday demolished all the homes and tents in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert for the 162th time, displacing its residents. According to...

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  • September 27, 2019

    Massaad Abu Fager: ‘I call on Egyptians to continue to demonstrate’

    Shortly after the profile of a well-known Sinai activist appeared in an Egyptian newspaper, the intelligence services called the journalist who interviewed him: “Why have you published a picture...

  • September 27, 2019

    Egypt: That’s enough Sisi

    Former army contractor Mohamed Ali has called for a million-man protest on the streets and in squares across Egypt today as discontent swells on the Egyptian street following accusations...

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