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July 3, 2018

Egypt’s Morsi spends 5th year in prison since coup

Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi spends his fifth year behind bars since he was ousted by the military in a coup in 2013. He was tried in...

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July 3, 2018

What use is UNHRC agenda item 7 if it is manipulated to serve Israeli interests?

Yesterday’s debate at the UN Human Rights Council exposed how options for Palestinians are being depleted. Other than recurring statements from countries and non-governmental organisations about Israeli violence and...

Blog
July 3, 2018

Somalia’s terror group bans ‘harmful’ plastic bags

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab has placed a ban on the use of plastic bags over harm posed to the environment, the Independent reported today. Al-Shabaab-run Radio Andalus broadcasted the...

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July 3, 2018

Egypt novelist criticises BBC for ‘defaming Sisi’

Egypt’s incumbent President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is much better than the his ousted predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, as well as assassinated president, Mohamed Anwar Sadat, Egyptian feminist writer, Nawal El-Saadawi,...

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July 3, 2018

NGO: UN should force member states to fund UNRWA

Donors to the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA are attempting to discourage the organisation from providing crucial services to needy Palestinians in the wake of funding cuts, according to the...

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July 3, 2018

Amputee football: Gaza’s first squad kicks in to action

Thirteen Palestinian amputees have come together to form Gaza’s first football squad of people with disabilities. “This is the first football team of amputees in Palestine, and it was...

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July 3, 2018

Algeria MP boards Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla in Italy

An Algerian parliamentarian has joined international solidarity activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla ship named Al-Awda calling on Arab and international parliaments to support and protect the ships which aim...

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July 3, 2018

Senators to SDF: US should remain in Syria

Two US senators visited Washington-backed forces in the northern Syrian province of Manbij yesterday and emphasised the importance of American troops remaining in the region. Lindsey Graham from South...

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July 3, 2018

The Insult

“We live in the Middle East. The word ‘offensive’ was born here,” says a character in the film – if one sentence could sum up “The Insult” in its...

Reviews
July 3, 2018

Iran diplomat arrested over bomb plot against US-backed opposition

Authorities in Belgium have said that an Iranian diplomat was among three people arrested on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack on a meeting of exiled Iranian opposition groups...

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