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May 31, 2018

Tunisia facing looming political crisis

A dispute between Tunisia’s Ennahda movement and the Nida Tounes party on one hand and the unity government of Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on the other threatens to plunge...

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May 31, 2018

European court: Lithuania, Romania assisted US torture

Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of two terror suspects by helping the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to torture them in “secret rendition,” the European Court of Human...

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May 31, 2018

Who will the Kurds vote for in the Turkish elections?

Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in less than a month. Given the alignment of political parties and the formation of two electoral alliances, many observers and...

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May 31, 2018

China prevents its citizens from working in ‘occupied Jerusalem’

Israel is to launch an urgent investigation in to a decision by China not to allow its citizens to work in Jerusalem and illegal Israeli settlements because they are...

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May 31, 2018

PLO references to Latin America highlight what the Palestinian leadership can’t emulate

Yet more Palestinians have been killed in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his “deal of the century”. Gaza has again been bombed by Israel over...

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May 31, 2018

UAE human rights defender given 10-year term for social media post

A prominent Emirati human rights activist was yesterday handed a ten-year prison sentence for using his social media accounts to allegedly spread “false information” and cause “hatred and sectarianism”....

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May 31, 2018

Israel court bans seizure of Palestinian land for settler use

Attempts by the Israeli government to legalise land theft has been bumped off-course following a Supreme Court ruling contradicting a legal precedent which had granted a green light for...

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May 31, 2018

Kuwait blocks US attempt to condemn Palestinian resistance at UN

Kuwait yesterday blocked a US-drafted UN Security Council statement that strongly condemned Palestinian resistance forces in the Gaza Strip. On Tuesday, America had called for an emergency UNSC meeting...

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May 31, 2018

Israel, Myanmar sign agreement to teach about the Holocaust

Israel and Myanmar have signed a cooperation agreement on educational programmes including curricula on teaching about the Holocaust, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said on Twitter on Tuesday....

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May 31, 2018

Rohingya rape victims are braced for a Ramadan baby boom

Eid babies are normally seen as a great blessing across the Muslim world and a perfect end to pregnancies after Ramadan. We shouldn’t, though, expect any celebrations over the...

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