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August 19, 2019

Syria: Fierce battles as Assad’s forces enter Khan Sheikhoun

Syrian government forces stormed the town of Khan Sheikhoun yesterday amid fierce clashes with armed opposition groups, leaving dozens dead. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the government’s ground troops penetrated...

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August 19, 2019

My heart aches for Myanmar and Kashmir; for Idlib and Aden

What is happening to Muslims across the world? What is this persecution, violence and racism to which they are being subjected everywhere we look? Rohingya Muslims are still suffering...

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August 19, 2019

EU using Israel drones to track migrant boats in the Med

The European Union (EU) invested over $115 million in Israeli-made unmanned drones to police the Mediterranean Sea. The Observer discovered three contracts with Frontex, the EU’s border and coastguard...

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August 19, 2019

Israel Police limit right to protest

Israel’s police has drawn up new regulations restricting the rights to civil protests, with those who break them committing “criminal offences”. Despite the Israeli High Court of Justice having...

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August 19, 2019

Netanyahu: Israel election won’t stop Gaza war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to strike the already-besieged Gaza Strip regardless of the country’s upcoming general election. Speaking yesterday as he embarked on a two-day visit...

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August 19, 2019

Bedouin in Marsa Matrouh protest Egypt confiscation of their land

Bedouin in the city of Negila west of Marsa Matrouh are staging a sit-in to protest the confiscation of their land they say is being sold on to the...

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August 19, 2019

#MyPalestinianSitty trends after Tlaib refuses to enter Israel

Last week US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib rejected an offer from Israel to visit her grandmother in the West Bank village of Beit Ur Al-Fouqa, after she and fellow Congresswoman...

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August 19, 2019

EU: Asylum applications from Saudi nationals up 106%

The number of Saudi Arabian nationals who apply for asylum in the European Union (EU) has increased by 106 per cent within the first six months of 2019 alone,...

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August 19, 2019

Israel’s ban on Tlaib and Omar has thrown the spotlight on the Palestinian cause

When Benjamin Netanyahu and three of his cabinet ministers cancelled the visit to Israel of Democratic US Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, he no...

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August 19, 2019

Egypt torture conference ‘kafkaesque horror’, says head of revolutionary council

Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference...

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