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Oil prices increased to its highest in months after the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to curb production for the first time since 2008. In a...
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December 1, 2016
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Ramona Wadi
Another symbolic international day for Palestinian rights has degenerated into the usual stale observations and recommendations that do little other than try to impart a semblance of balance between...
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Article
December 1, 2016
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Diana Alghoul
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) has released a report highlighting the human cost of landmines last year. The ICBL-CMC is a global network of various...
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November 30, 2016
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Jospeh Benzekri
When Fidel Castro died on Friday, it seemed for a moment that Donald Trump's America would revert back to being a voice on democracy and human rights. Trump's Vice...
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The Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Riyad Mansour, condemned Israeli policies he described as "entrenching a one-state reality of an apartheid nature", in remarks to mark the...
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Human Rights Watch has condemned the Houthis' persecution of members of the Baha'i faith in Yemen. "Arresting someone on the basis of their religious beliefs or compelling them to...
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More than 100,000 immigrants from the Horn of Africa have crossed the Gulf of Aden, on their way to Yemen, despite the violent conflict in the country, the United...
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OPEC countries are close to clinching a deal to limit oil output, despite their differences. If a deal is reached, it will be OPEC's first production cut in eight...
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November 30, 2016
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Asa Winstanley
It came out last month that Israel has been using the cover of the war in Syria to entrench its colonial occupation of the south-west of the country by...
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The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said that about half a million children in Syria are living under siege amid escalating violence in the country. The agency...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Arab League Council rejected and condemned on Tuesday the declaration by Yemen's Houthis and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh of the so-called...
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A US military investigation has concluded that a series of "unintentional human errors" led to a 17 September coalition air strike that killed fighters aligned with the Syrian government...
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French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault today called for an immediate United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has been...
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Human Rights Watch has urged Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to not approve a draft bill that will further regulate civil society, the group said in a statement yesterday. Egypt's...
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Saudi Arabia donated $67 million for projects to be implemented in Gaza, West Bank and Jordan by the UNRWA, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. According to a statement issued...
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November 29, 2016
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Ramona Wadi
In this fast-paced narrative of diplomatic events, John Quigley illustrates the extension of Zionist colonial violence and manipulation at an international level. The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders: deception...
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Article
November 29, 2016
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) has designated the week, November 25 to December 3, as the 'Biggest-Ever Campaign' aimed at boycotting Israeli products and those of companies...
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Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his hope on Monday that outgoing US President Barack Obama does not support a UN Security Council resolution against the Israeli occupation during his remaining time...
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The Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a large swathe of eastern Aleppo from opposition on Monday in an accelerating attack that threatens to crush the...
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Yemen's armed Houthi movement and its political allies formed a new government on Monday, the Houthi-run state news agency Saba reported, in what appeared a blow to UN-backed efforts...
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Article
November 28, 2016
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Yasmine Nahlawi
Russia's consistent use of its veto in the UN Security Council has represented a fundamental obstacle to addressing the Syrian conflict, which has been described by UN officials as...
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Turkey's strained relationship with the EU has boosted the hopes of refugees aiming to reach Europe. Following the European Parliament's non-binding vote last week to freeze accession talks with...
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Tension between the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC oil producers is threatening a new deal that was to be agreed by the end of this...
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The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Sunday began a new tour which will include Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman in a bid to revive...
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Several thousand residents of opposition-held eastern Aleppo fled shifting frontlines, residents and a monitor said on Sunday, after a rapid advance by the Syrian army and allied forces that...
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the European Parliament to know its limits on Saturday, making it clear that the Turkish government rules the country, not the European body. Erdogan...
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Interviews
November 26, 2016
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
As Turkey grapples with a number of serious domestic and international crises, much has been made about its record vis a vis its troubled relationship with the European Union,...
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Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Russia is engaged in talks with Saudi Arabia regarding oil production. Russia's Sputnik news quoted the Russian Energy Minister, who replied with...
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The editor-in-chief of Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat has resigned days after the newspaper published an article about unintended pregnancies in Iraq's Karbala, a city considered holy by the Shia...
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The head of Lebanon's main international airport denied yesterday Israeli accusations that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were using commercial airline flights to ship weapons to the Lebanese...
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The European Union should not freeze Turkey's negotiations to join the bloc, Germany's foreign ministry said today, a day after members of the European Parliament voted in a non-binding...
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UN Special Envoy to Syria, Staffan De Mistura, said that outgoing US President Barack Obama may keep working until his last day in office to end the war in...