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May 10, 2019

Jaffa activist: A Jewish and democratic state is an oxymoron

Palestinian citizens of Israel – who were displaced in the Nakba of 1948 but were incorporated into the nascent Jewish state – are often written out of the region’s...

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May 10, 2019

US, Iran tensions unyielding, Europeans reject Iran ‘ultimatums’ over nuclear deal

European countries said, Thursday, they wanted to preserve Iran’s nuclear deal and rejected “ultimatums” from Tehran, after Iran relaxed restrictions on its nuclear programme and threatened moves that might...

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May 10, 2019

Lebanon won’t survive with Palestine, Syria refugees, says Aoun

Lebanon would never survive if half a million Palestinian refugees and 1.6 million Syrian refugees remained in the country, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, said yesterday. Aoun remarks came...

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May 10, 2019

Tunisia: Head of national TV fired over greetings to Ben Ali, amid public rage

A recorded sermon dating back to the pre-revolution period, which staged a sheikh’s prayer and greetings to the former Tunisian president and his family, was aired on national television...

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May 10, 2019

Iraq: Blast rocks Baghdad marketplace

A blast rocked Baghdad’s northeastern Sadr City district on Thursday but accounts differed on whether it caused any casualties. Daesh claimed responsibility, Reuters reports. Police Colonel Jamal Hameed told...

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May 10, 2019

Tunisia: Akal Movement struggles to revive Tamazight language and identity

Founders of the emerging AKAL party in Tunisia stated that the time has come to rehabilitate Tamazight language and identity of the country’s indigenous people, which have been marginalized...

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May 10, 2019

Algeria: Military judiciary investigates former presidential candidate

Algerian national television announced that the former presidential candidate and leader of Algeria’s Workers’ Party had been summoned by the military judiciary to investigate charges of “prejudice to the authority of...

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May 10, 2019

Egypt denies ‘selling off textiles infrastructure’

The Egyptian government yesterday denied recent reports about the sale of the local spinning and weaving factories to foreign investors. The Ministry of Public Business Sector said in a...

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May 9, 2019

Rights group tries to block Saudi vessel loading French arms

A French human rights group on Thursday sought to block the loading of weapons onto a Saudi Arabian vessel that is due to dock in northern France later in...

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May 9, 2019

Tripoli government suspends operations of 40 firms including Total

Libya’s internationally recognised government has suspended the operations of 40 foreign firms including French oil firm Total, a government official said on Thursday, Reuters has reported. The ministry said that...

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