Monday, July 5, 2010

Quizz: what do you actually know about the occupation?

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HaMoked, Center for the Defense of the Individual, sees it as its main task to provide assistance to Palestinians in the occupied territori...

Iran complains that some countries refuse to refuel its passenger planes

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Iran says that Britain, Germany and the United Arab Emirates are refusing to provide fuel to Iranian passenger planes.The move, which has ...

Syria imprisons aging human rights defender; should clarify disappearance of 52 prisoners

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A Syrian military court jailed on Sunday the 79-year-old lawyer Haytham Maleh (picture Reuters), who campaigned for decades for an end to ...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Fadlallah, highest Shia cleric of Lebanon, dies at 74

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Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadallah, Lebanon's most influential Shia cleric, has died in Beirut at the age of 74. He was  admitte...
Friday, July 2, 2010

Salam Fayyad, and why he is in fact NOT building a state

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F Salam Fayyad inspects a factory for marble and stone. Nathan Brown, professor of political science at George Washington University, wro...

Yemeni intelligence officer shot, second in Abyan province in a month

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Motorcycle gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni intelligence officer on Thursday outside his home in the southern province Abyan, where armed...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Five Turks, 12 Kurds dead in fights in E-Turkey

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At least 12 Kurdish separatist fighters and five members of the Turkish security forces have been killed in clashes in the southeast of ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

British Methodists ban products from Israeli settlements

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The Methodist Church today voted to boycott all products from Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories becoming the first major C...

Police arrest Abu Tir, one of four Hamas politicians facing expulsion from Jerusalem

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Police arrested Hamas official Mohammed Abu Tir on Wednesday for failing to comply with orders to leave his East Jerusalem home. Abu Tir wa...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Syria dismisses 1200 teachers wearing the niqab

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Hundreds of Syrian teachers wearing the face veil were dismissed from their schools as the Ministry of Education said they undermine the ...

Turkish autopsy report: Israelis on Mavi Marmara shot to kill

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Journalist Cevdet Kiliçlar (38) moments before he got killed. His only weapon was a camera with which he was taken pictures till the very ...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Agreement between Yemeni government and Houthis is not working

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Abdulmalik al-Houthi, leader of the Shia rebels in the northern governorate of Saada (see picture) , has accused the government of renegin...