Wednesday, September 10, 2014

HRW: Israel illegally coerced some 7.000 African refugees to leave

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  Hundreds of African asylum seekers leave the detention centre in Holot (South Israel) in protest against their detention in a so called ...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Iraqi parliament approves new government

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Haider al-Abadi enters the parliament. (Photo AP) Iraq's parliament approved a new government headed by Haider al-Abadi as prime mini...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Arab League vows to take action against Islamic State

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Arab League foreign ministers agreed on Sunday to take all necessary measures to confront Daesh (Islamic State) and cooperate with internat...
Friday, September 5, 2014

HRW: IS execute three times more people in Tikrit than previously thought

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Still from an IS video. The man between the lines is Ali, one of HRW´s witnesses.    Human Rights Watch has found new evidence that the Is...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Yemeni president proposes to disband government and reinstate fuel subsidies, but Houthis continue protest

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Houthi supporters block a road in Sanaa on 3 September. The Houthis have been protesting in Sanaa for weeks. (Foto Reuters) Yemeni Presid...

Improper restauration threatens Egypt's oldest pyramid at Saqqara

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   Egyptian activists have launched an attack against the Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh al-Damaty after assigning a company with the  ...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Libyan government admits having lost control of Tripoli

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Militiamen from ´´Fajr Libya´´ enjoy their stay at the compound of the American embassy in Tripoli. They plunge from the balcony into th...

Iraqi Kurds retake another town form IS a day after Amerli was freed

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  The shaded area is territory held by IS. (Map Daily Mail) Iraqi Kurdish forces and Shiite militiamen retook the town of Sulaiman Bek ...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Bahrain detains human rights activist at the airport

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Maryam al-Khawaja Bahraini authorities detained prominent human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja on Saturday on her arrival at th...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed Seif el-Islam dies

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Prominent Egyptian activist and human rights lawyer Ahmed Seif El-Islam has died Wednesday at 63 years old, after a long struggle with h...
Monday, August 25, 2014

IS captures airbase in Raqqa, the last remaining government outpost in this province

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  IS uses loudhailers to announce to the population Raqqa the capture of the airbase. (Photo Reuters) ISIS fighters captured Sunday a ...

Two governements in Libya, after islamist rebels capture Tripoli

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   Damaged aircraft at Tripoli aiport. Fighting has been raging since July at the airport,  fuel reserves have been burning for weeks an se...