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June 5, 2018

Jordan’s king replaces prime minister to subdue protests

Jordan’s King Abdullah replaced his prime minister yesterday in a move to defuse the biggest protests in years, over IMF-backed reforms that have hit the poor. Government plans to...

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June 5, 2018

Jordan: Strikes continue despite PM sacking

Chief Chairman of the council of doctors Dr. Ali El-Abbous confirmed the continuation of the trade unions’ strike today until the income tax law is withdrawn even if government...

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June 5, 2018

Lieberman calls for Haneen Zoabi to be sacked

The Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday called for Arab Member of the Knesset Haneen Zoabi to be dismissed from her post. In a post on Twitter, Lieberman described...

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June 5, 2018

Israel arrests 12 worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli forces today detained 12 Palestinian worshippers from inside Al-Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards in East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian official. “Dozens of Israeli police officers stormed the compound and...

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June 5, 2018

Mai Masri: ‘Films are part of safeguarding memory’

Video and editing by Jehan Alfarra, interview by Amelia Smith. Mai Masri was one of the first Palestinian filmmakers to document life in Palestine under Israeli occupation and the civil...

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June 5, 2018

42 Jordan security officers injured in anti-government protests

Forty-two members of Jordan’s security forces were injured during protests calling for the government to step down and for a new income tax bill to be repealed, the head...

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June 5, 2018

Today it’s the Golan Heights, tomorrow it will be Medina

Israelis believe they have never had it this good. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regularly brags about it. He claims that apart from a few non-conformists, most Arab countries have...

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June 5, 2018

Egypt agrees to raise salaries ahead of fuel, service prices hike

The Egyptian Parliament has accepted a government proposal to increase the basic salaries and pensions of state employees as of 1 July, Chairman of the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) Gebali Al-Maraghi said....

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June 5, 2018

Egypt to increase tax revenues by 131% in 4 years

Egypt is planning to increase tax revenues by 131 per cent in four years, state-owned MENA reported yesterday. Speaking to the parliament, finance minister, Amr Al-Garhy said the government aims to increase tax revenues...

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June 4, 2018

Khamenei: Curbing Iran’s missile programme is a ‘dream that will never come true’

Iran’s supreme leader said on Monday it would respond harshly to any attack and that Western demands for limits on its ballistic missile programme are a “dream that will...

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