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Blog
March 6, 2015
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Samira Shackle
Ever since Palestine made moves towards joining the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) in early January, it has faced a major backlash. Israel has withheld millions of dollars in...
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Blog
March 5, 2015
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Ramona Wadi
PA President Mahmoud Abbas' endeavours to obtain symbolic recognition of Palestinian statehood from European countries had, as intended, eclipsed the necessity of developing awareness of the importance of Palestine's...
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The Egyptian foreign ministry has criticised the UN's Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, after he called for the Rafah Crossing with the Gaza Strip...
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Article
March 4, 2015
Abdul Khalil Al-Marhoun
Geography, in its fundamental nature, points out to us that European security is often linked to the fate of the Middle East – and in particular of Syrian and...
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The European Union's foreign policy chief yesterday said significant steps had been made in nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries, the Anadolu Agency reported. " the talks...
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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad cannot be part of any political solution to resolve the crisis created by his regime, the Anadolu Agency reported United Nations Security Council President François...
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The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Monday that the number of needy Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip has increased by 80,000...
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A senior PLO official said yesterday that it is to lodge the first war crimes complaint against Israel at the International Criminal Court on April 1, AFP reported Member...
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Blog
March 3, 2015
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Ramona Wadi
A UNESCO report issued in late January looked specifically at Gaza's educational system. Already rendered precarious with schools operating double shifts due to a shortage of premises, it was...
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Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations has condemned John Kerry's criticism of the UN Council for Human Rights. Speaking to Anadolu, Ibrahim Khreisheh said that the US Secretary of...
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Five pro-Palestinian protesters from the anti-war women's group CODEPINK were arrested on Sunday outside the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington DC. The...
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The European Union's diplomatic missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah have denounced recent attacks by extremist Jewish settlers on Muslim and Christian religious sites in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, it...
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Reconstructing the Gaza Strip will take more than a century if the Israeli siege on the Strip is not lifted, the London-based charity Oxfam warned today. "At current rates...
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Turkey's aim is to reach European standards in its membership process, the country's EU minister has claimed. Speaking at a meeting of the Paasikivi Society think tank in Finland,...
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The UN Security Council has given unanimous backing to Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi as "the legitimate president of Yemen" and reaffirmed its strong commitment to the country's unity, AP...
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The UN Security Council's decision to extend sanctions against former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as well as two leaders of the Houthis who are allied with him "will...
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The corrupt practices of Yemen's former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh have netted the strongman up to $60 billion, a UN sanctions panel will report to the Security Council on...
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The European Union is reviewing a Palestinian Authority request to activate the revolving fund agreement to solve its financial crisis, the Anadolu Agency reported. In remarks to the news...
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Article
February 24, 2015
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Nasim Ahmed
We all remember the infamous comical moment when Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN back in 2012 and made his fabricated case for striking Iran. In his desperation to convince...
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday criticised the international community's hesitance to solve the conflict in Syria, the Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking at the UN Security Council on the situation...
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Blog
February 24, 2015
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Ramona Wadi
Stop The Wall has published a detailed summary of the funds that Europe's research programme Horizon 2020 will be granting to Israel for 205 projects approved by the EU....
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Less than a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2012 warning to the UN General Assembly that Iran was 70 per cent of the way to completing its "plans...
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UNRWA needs $100 million in urgent relief in the first quarter of this year to enable it to help repair homes destroyed during Israel's war on the Gaza Strip...
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A Palestinian lady from the Gaza Strip is a leading figure in operating NASA's Orion Spacecraft and is responsible for software/hardware integration and testing to ensure the spacecraft is...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for urgent action to lift sieges on civilians and to end barrel bomb attacks in Syria, denouncing a business-as-usual approach to...
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The UN has urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime to release thousands of people who have been held in detention for years. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid...
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A minister in Libya's Tripoli-based Islamist government called on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting to put an end to the Egyptian army's "criminal operations" in...
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UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar described the "constitutional declaration" announced by the Shia Houthi rebels as "unilateral action" which means that it will not be adopted as a...
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The UN has launched an appeal for $700m to meet the humanitarian needs of 1.6 million vulnerable Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. At a press conference last Thursday,...
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The UN Security Council on Sunday demanded Yemen's Houthi rebels relinquish control of the government and withdraw their forces from the capital. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a Britain and Jordan-drafted...
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The European Parliament urged the European Union to organise an international conference to raise financial assistance for refugees in Iraq and Syria and the countries that host them, the...
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The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini yesterday called on Israel to release the Palestinian Authority's tax revenues as an immediate measure to address the...