Saturday, February 28, 2015

Cairo court: Hamas a terrorist organisation

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There used to be a time that Egyptian leftistts trusted the judicairy. That time has passed. The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters on Saturday ...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

IS destroys Assyrian statues in Mosul

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  The Islamic State (IS) group has released a video showing the destruction of statues in Iraq. The video shows statues being smashed usin...

Ex-president Saleh of Yemen amassed between 32 and 60 billion dollars through corruption

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(Photo Reuters) Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's former president, is believed to have amassed between $32bn and $60bn through corruption...

The Netanyahu-government in 2014 produced 460 new houses monthly in occupied territory

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Har Homa (Jabal Abu Ghneim) near Jerusalem. (Photo Reuters)  The Israeli organzation Peace Now reports: Summary of the third Netanyahu g...
Monday, February 23, 2015

'Five years for Alaa Abdel Fattah

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Abdel Fattah in court. in November 2014 (Photo: Reuters). Egypty again demonstrated that is has become one of the most repressive states ...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Deposed Yemeni president Mansour al-Hadi leaves residence

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People in the South-Yemeni capital Aden demonstrated on 20 February after the Friday prayers against the Houthi takeover in Sana'a. (Ph...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Egypt bombs IS in Libya after beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts

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Egyptian Christians held captive by the Islamic State (IS) are marched by armed men along a beach said to be near Tripoli, in this still i...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Some 700 British artists announce cultural boycott of Israel

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Some 700 British artists, inlcuding writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, have anounced that from now they will boycott Isarel cultural...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Islamic State branch in Sinai beheads 8 tribesmen

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(Photo Al-Ahram) The militant group Sinai Province (formerly Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis) in the Sinai desert released a new video online early ...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Football fans die in stampede at Cairo stadium: 20 deaths

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Updated. Dozens of fans of the Egyptian football club Zamalek were killed on Sunday evening as police attempted to disperse large crowds wh...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Mass graves of Yazidis found in northern Iraq

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One of the mass graves. This one is near Khansour village, west of Sinuse. The remains of 23 men from Iraq's Yazidi religious minorit...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Houthis dissolve Yemen's parliament and install ''transitional council''

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Houthis, tribal and military representatives as well as the interior and defence ministers attended the installation of the new '...