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March 10, 2019

Sudanese women protesters sentenced to 20 lashes, month in jail

Nine female Sudanese protesters were sentenced on Saturday to 20 lashes and one month in prison for rioting, the Democratic Alliance of Lawyers said in a Reuters report, a...

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March 10, 2019

UN agency calls for more access in Syria to help refugees return

The United Nations refugee agency should have a bigger presence inside Syria to observe and help refugees returning from abroad and from displacement within the war-torn country, UNHCR Commissioner...

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March 10, 2019

Iran’s Rouhani urges Pakistan to act against group behind border attack

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday called for “decisive” action by Pakistan against a militant group behind a deadly suicide attack in a border area, and said inaction by...

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March 10, 2019

Israel’s treatment of Bedouins is a ‘heinous crime’ says Knesset member

The fate of Palestinian citizens of Israel is often ignored in the many examples cited for why it is an apartheid state. This assertion rests on a number of...
March 9, 2019

Palestinian wins EU-funded MedReset young writer award

A Palestinian graduate has won the Young Writers Prize of MedReset, a European Union (EU) funded project. Twenty-three-year-old Omar Shanti graduated from Northwestern University in Illinois, USA, in 2018...

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March 9, 2019

US Congressmen call for Saudi to release detained dual citizen

Senior US Congressmen have called for the Saudi Arabian authorities to release dual citizen Walid Fitaihi, who has been detained and tortured in Saudi prisons. In a joint statement...

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March 9, 2019

Hamas: Israel must lift Gaza siege

Hamas said yesterday that Israel has no choice but to lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip since 2007. In a press release, Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Al-Qanou said:...

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March 9, 2019

Poll: 85% of Kuwaitis reject normalisation with Israel

A recent poll conducted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy has shown that 85 per cent of Kuwaitis oppose normalising ties with Israel The poll also found...

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March 9, 2019

Preparations for electricity link between Sudan, Egypt complete

The spokesperson of the Sudanese Water Resources and Electricity Ministry, Ibrahim Shaqlawi, said yesterday that the ministry has completed technical preparations for an electricity interconnection line with Egypt, the...

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March 9, 2019

Israel elections obscuring ‘growing apartheid’ in Palestine, professor claims

In an article published this week in Haaretz entitled “Front Against Apartheid,” lecturer at the Department of Geography at the University of Beer Sheva, Professor Oren Yiftachel, argued that...

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