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July 2, 2017

3 car bombs hit Damascus, at least 7 killed

Three car bombs exploded in Damascus on Sunday, state media said, killing at least seven people in the first suicide bombings in the Syrian capital since extremists attacked in...

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July 2, 2017

Kurdish militants kill two ruling party officials in southeast Turkey

Kurdish militants shot and killed two officials from the ruling AK Party in southeast Turkey over the weekend, Turkish authorities said. Orhan Mercan, the AKP’s deputy head in the...

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July 2, 2017

Former Israeli PM Olmert released from prison

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, 71, was released on parole on Sunday from a prison in Ramle, near Tel Aviv, after serving 16 months in jail for corruption....

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July 2, 2017

Gulf deadline to resolve Qatar rift approaches

Qatar faces possible further sanctions by Arab states that have severed ties with Doha over allegations of links to terrorism, as a deadline to accept a series of demands...

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July 2, 2017

Yemen’s cholera death toll rises to 1,500

The death toll from a major cholera outbreak in Yemen has risen to 1,500, Nevio Zagaria, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) representative in Yemen, said on Saturday, and appealed...

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July 2, 2017

Qatar says Arab states’ demands ‘made to be rejected’, says open to talks

Demands made of Qatar by four other Arab states were designed to be rejected, Doha’s foreign minister said on Saturday, explaining that their ultimatum was aimed not at tackling...

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July 2, 2017

Rebels accuse Syrian army of chlorine attack, army calls it fabrication

A Syrian rebel group accused the Syrian army of using chlorine gas against its fighters on Saturday in battles east of Damascus – an accusation the military swiftly denied...

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July 2, 2017

Russia’s Putin stresses for dialogue in Qatar-Gulf row

Russian President Vladimir Putin had telephone discussions with the leaders of Qatar and Bahrain, stressing the need for diplomacy to end the dispute between Qatar and several other Arab...

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July 2, 2017

Mosul mosque where Daesh took world stage lies in rubble

The leaning minaret of Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque survived conquests by the Mongols and the Ottomans, neglect under Saddam Hussein, and air raids during the Iran-Iraq War and the...
July 1, 2017

The refugees’ return to Palestine is a must

In just under a year’s time, Palestinians will mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the 1948 Catastrophe that marks their expulsion from Palestine. More than 750,000 Palestinians, most...

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