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November 20, 2018

40 human rights workers arrested since October 2018, says HRW

At least 40 human rights workers, lawyers and political activists have been arrested in Egypt since late October 2018, Human Rights Watch has revealed. Most of the people were...

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November 20, 2018

Hamas: US efforts to dismantle UNRWA have failed

US President Donald Trump’s plan to force UNRWA to close have failed as a number of countries have come out in support of the organisation and provided the necessary...

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November 20, 2018

UNRWA reduces deficit from $446m to $21m

The Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Monday that its budget deficit for 2018 has been reduced from $446m to $21m. Pierre Krähenbühl made...

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November 20, 2018

‘Khan al-Ahmar to be demolished very soon,’ says Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar, in the occupied West Bank, “will be demolished very soon.” Netanyahu made the remark...

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November 20, 2018

Iraq denies mediating in Saudi-Iran relations

Iraq has denied news reports that it is proposing to mediate in tense Saudi-Iran relations, Alkhaleejonline.net has reported. “Mass media from the Gulf States have reported an unofficial source...

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November 20, 2018

‘Settler colonialism has destroyed the culture of the colonised – Palestine is no different’

In 1982, Israel invaded the Lebanese capital Beirut to root out the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). Vast swathes of the city were razed. Among the buildings targeted for destruction...

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November 20, 2018

Identity, Conflict and Politics in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan

Imagine that you were a state in which the unruly masses of an ethnic minority rebelled in one of your provinces. Would you crush it with your own security...

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November 20, 2018

UNICEF: 80% of Iraq’s children face violence

Some 80 percent of Iraq’s children experience violence at home or in school, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) announced yesterday. “A majority of Iraq’s poor children don’t...

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November 20, 2018

Saudi foreign minister says CIA assessment on Khashoggi murder is false

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that claims, including by the CIA, that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gave the order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi were false,...

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November 20, 2018

Defence for Children International Palestine: Israeli army killed 52 Palestinian children since beginning of 2018

According to Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP), since the beginning of the year, the Israeli Occupation Forces have killed 52 children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,...

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