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US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed the Israeli and Palestinian's full commitment to calm the situation in Jerusalem which are threatening to escalate into a third Intifada. Speaking...
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Spanish parliament plans to hold a symbolic vote next week on a draft resolution to recognise a Palestinian state. The non-binding resolution, introduced by the opposition Socialist Party, will...
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A new report issued by an Israeli human rights group has found that most of the complaints filed by Palestinians against the violations committed by Israeli occupation forces, including...
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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation held an emergency meeting of the Quds Contact Group on Wednesday in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, during which the group urged the UN...
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Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a senior member of Hamas's political bureau, said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is hindering the work of the consensus government because he is preventing officials...
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An international legal delegation to Egypt has slammed the government's repression of its political opponents as characteristic of a "police state", at the launch of a new report in...
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A secret meeting was held on Tuesday between security officials from Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hebrew news website Walla reported. The meeting centred on their joint efforts...
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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi denied reports that an Iranian nuclear expert had been killed in an armed attack in the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to the...
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Egypt received S-300 long-range missile defence systems from Moscow this year, Voice of Russia website revealed yesterday. The website quoted Vyacheslav Dzirkalen, the deputy general manager of the Russian...
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Sources in the French National Assembly said that the socialist MPs will present a proposal on the formal recognition of the State of Palestine; the vote is due to...
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Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Wednesday that conditions in Jerusalem, or Al-Quds for Muslims, are worse than during the 1967 war. "The current situation in Al-Quds...
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The Palestinian government and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with the support of Sweden, yesterday signed an agreement aimed at removing the rubble and debris in the Gaza...
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The Palestinian Prisoners Society said that the Israeli Prison Service had transferred Fatah's leading activist Marwan Barghouti to solitary confinement in the Hadarim prison in central Israel after he...
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The United States expressed concern over Israel's decision to build 200 new housing units in East Jerusalem, it also condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank....
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A group pf Israeli hackers calling themselves "UP" claim to have successfully taken down a number of official websites run by the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli media reported on...
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Two Egyptian courts convicted dozens of anti-coup Egyptians on Wednesday, including nine minors, handing out sentences that range anywhere between one and 25 years. A judicial source, speaking to...
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Egyptian coup leader and President Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi issued a law on Wednesday that gives him the power to deport foreign prisoners back to their countries of origin on the...
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Israeli authorities denied entry on Wednesday night to the commission appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate possible war crimes committed during Israel's latest war against Palestinians...
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Iraqis are looking forward to renewed relations with Saudi Arabia after previous governments increased tensions between the two countries. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal said: "Iraq is our Iraq,...
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A new survey conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies at the Doha Institute shows that 85 per cent of Arabs polled hold negative views of...
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Israel's Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch yesterday announced that visitors to Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound will soon be "scanned by a facial-recognition surveillance system that can pick out faces...
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Clashes broke out yesterday morning between Palestinian youths and Israeli police officers in the town of Al-Issawiya, north of Jerusalem, as the area witnessed intense gas and sound bombs....
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The Libyan government refused to hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague today. The Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations,...
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Arab states have intervened to stop the "incitement" to demonstrate in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, a senior Israeli official revealed yesterday. In an interview on Israeli Army Radio, the...
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Russia has agreed to build up to eight nuclear reactors in Iran, after officials from the two nations signed new agreements today. According to the official Iranian News Agency...
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The General of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Amir Ali Hajizadeh confirmed that Iran has established factories for the manufacture of missiles in Syria. The...
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Israeli Army Radio said today that US Secretary of State John Kerry will be visiting Jordan today to ask King Abdullah II to intervene to put an end to...
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Columnist for The Sun and infamous celebrity Katie Hopkins provoked outrage this week by taking to Twitter to describe Palestinians as "filthy rodents", as well as other Islamophobic remarks....
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Tunisia's Ennahda has called for demonstrations on Friday in protest against the Israeli attacks on Palestinians. In to a statement issued yesterday and signed by the party's leader Rached...
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The local Israeli committee for planning and construction in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem is set to approve on Wednesday the building of 200 new housing units in the...
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Dr Tarek Mahmoud El-Ghandour, Professor of Dermatology in Ain Shams University, died after suffering internal bleeding in Abu Zaabal prison, Egypt. El-Ghandour bled for six hours from his oesophagus,...
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More than 40 Palestinian citizens have been arrested over the last few days, as protests continue following the killing by Israeli police of Khair Hamdan. According to a source...