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December 5, 2017

‘Say the Word’: What the Rohingya Struggle is Really About

Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency trumped all else. In his visit to Burma...

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December 5, 2017

The problem with a post-Tillerson State Department

Donald Trump may be denying it, but there seems no doubt that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is a marked man. Last month the speculation was on how soon...

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December 5, 2017

Iraq child marriage bill draws UN ire

A proposed law that could allow marriage for children as young as 9 years old in Iraq would rob boys and girls already scarred by war of their childhoods,...

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December 5, 2017

Yemen leader urges Saleh loyalists to ally vs Houthis

Yemen’s president Monday called on the loyalists of late President Ali Abdullah Saleh to forge an alliance with his government against the Houthi militia who killed him earlier Monday. “Let...

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December 5, 2017

US: Supreme Court allows full enforcement of travel ban

The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed full enforcement of the latest version of the Trump administration’s travel ban. The justices ruled the policy could be fully enforced even as legal...

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December 4, 2017

Trump delays announcement on whether US embassy to be moved to Jerusalem

President Donald Trump will not announce a decision on Monday on whether he will again delay moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a White House spokesman said,...

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December 4, 2017

The danger posed to life of President Morsi

It seems that coups have some sort of memory. They learn from each other. In the first moment of the 1973 Chilean coup, President Salvador Allende was killed, resulting...

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December 4, 2017

Qatar denies mediating Houthi-Saleh rift

Qatar today denied reports by the United Arab Emirate’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash that Doha is mediating between the Houthis and forces loyal to former...

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December 4, 2017

New US, Saudi deal snubs Palestinian rights and international law

President Donald Trump is reported to be working on a deal that does not even guarantee the minimum rights of the Palestinians. The deal, which is yet to be...

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December 4, 2017

After public outcry, Netanyahu backtracks on immunity bill

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked lawmakers to redraft a bill that would protect him from indictments made by police against him after the public protested the move,...

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