Monday, April 28, 2014

Court in Minya (Upper Egypt) hands out another record of 683 death sentences

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Execution Services ltd. in Minya?  The criminal court in the Egyptian city of Minya (Upper Egypt) on Monday handed 683 death sentences t...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Erdogan offers condolences to Armenians on the eve of 99th anniversary of massacre

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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, in a statement issued on the eve of the 99th anniversary of the death of large numbers of Arme...

Concern about arrested Saudi human rights defenders

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The Saudi human rights defenders Waleed Abu Al-Khair and Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Hamed are being held in incommunicado detention, and concern is ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Still unclear how removal of prince Bandar will change Saudi policy towards Syria

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News that I missed last week: Saudi Arabia has appointed a new intelligence chief to replace Prince Bandar bin Sultan. According the offici...
Monday, April 21, 2014

SPLA-rebels kill hundreds in South Sudanese city of Bentiu

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Oil installations in Bentiu. Bentiu is the capital of Unity State and the main oil producing city in South Sudan. (Photo AFP).   Hundred...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Sabahi officially presents bid to run for president against Abdel Fatah el-Sissi

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Sabahi. (Photo: Simon Hanna/Ahram Online) Leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi officially submitted his bid on Saturday to run for Egypt...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Algeria: the elections that will change nothing

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Algerians head to the polls on Thursday for a presidential election that in fact is not much more than a façade, because it is as good as ce...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Palestinians shoot and kill settler near Hebron

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Palestinian gunmen shot and killed one person and injured two others in a car driven by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank on M...

Israeli Palestinian journalist arrested after visit to Lebanon, case under gag order

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Majd Kayyal, second from right, takes part in a seminar in Beirut organized by As-Safir newspaper. (Muhammad Sharara/As-Safir/ Facebook ) ...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Atmosphere in Israeli Palestinian 'peace negotiations' turns into hostility

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Israel began imposing a number of sanctions on the Palestinian Authority Thursday in response to a formal request by PA President Mahmoud ...

Atheism is terrorism in Saudi Arabia

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King Abdullah The news is not so new, but still too important to be missed: Saudi Arabia in January introduced a series of new '...
Monday, March 31, 2014

´Black Sunday´ for French socialists, big gains for Marine Le Pen

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French President François Hollande decide to replace Jean-Marc Ayrault (centre) with Manuel Valls (right) as prime minister in a cabinet res...