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December 31, 2018

UAE court upholds 10-year jail term of rights activist Mansoor

A court in the United Arab Emirates today upheld a ten-year jail sentence against pro-democracy campaigner Ahmed Mansoor for criticising the government on social media, two sources said. The...

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December 31, 2018

PA jails Palestinian for life for selling Jerusalem land to settlers

A Palestinian court today sentenced an American-Palestinian to life imprisonment for violating a ban on selling land to Israelis, judiciary officials said. The US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman,...

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December 31, 2018

WFP: Yemen food aid being stolen in Houthi-run areas

Food aid meant for starving Yemenis is being stolen and sold in some areas controlled by the Houthi movement, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today. The Houthis...

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December 31, 2018

Ruling party wins majority of seats in Algeria’s Council of Nation

Algeria’s ruling National Liberation Front party won the majority of seats in the midterm elections of the Council of the Nation (the second chamber of parliament) that were carried...

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December 31, 2018

Kuwait: No ties with Syria before Arab League decision

Kuwaiti Deputy FM Khaled Al-Jarallah said today that his country’s embassy in Damascus will not reopen without a greenlight from the Cairo-based Arab League. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Al-Jarallah also criticised...

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December 31, 2018

94 journalists, media staff killed in 2018

Some 94 journalists and media staff were killed while carrying out their jobs in 2018, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said. In a new report released today, the Brussels-based...

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December 31, 2018

Stolen West Bank artefacts displayed at Israel museum

Israel has exhibited artefacts stolen from the occupied West Bank at a Jerusalem museum, an Israeli newspaper reported Monday. Twenty artefacts – out of an estimated 40,000 confiscated in...

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December 31, 2018

Israel seizes 1,200 dunams of Palestinian land for new settlement

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee filed an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court yesterday denouncing the Israeli government’s seizure of 1,200 dunams (297 acres) of Palestinian-owned land south...

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December 31, 2018

Israel allows Sheikh Raed Salah back home to continue term

The Israeli Magistrate Court in Haifa yesterday ordered the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, to be placed under house arrest at his home in...

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December 31, 2018

The demotion of its foreign minister will not help Saudi Arabia’s international relations

There have been a number of significant political events in the Middle East over the past few days. The ongoing protests in Sudan, for example, have claimed the lives...

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