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April 12, 2014

Gaza siege reduces inhabitants' purchasing power

Civil servants in the Gaza Strip have been paid only half their salaries for the past three months due to the blockade of the enclave. This reduced the purchasing...

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April 12, 2014

Cyrenaica set conditions to talk with Tripoli

Three conditions must be met in order for negotiations to be held between the government in Tripoli, Libya, and the Cyrenaica Transitional Council to bring an end to the...

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April 12, 2014

Former Libyan Mufti sentenced to seven years over spreading false news during revolution

The Misrata Court of Appeals sentenced on Monday the former Grand Mufti of Libya, Mohamed Madani Shweref, to seven years in prison and a fine of 500 Libyan dinars,...

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April 12, 2014

Senior Saudi official: No end for crisis unless Qatar changes its foreign policy

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal ruled out on Tuesday that the political impasse between Saudi Arabia and Qatar would end “as long as Qatar has not changed its...

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April 12, 2014

Secular leader in Tunisia says alliance with Ennahda possible

Former Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid El-Sebsi said in an interview with Reuters that his party is ready to ally with the Islamist Ennahda movement. El-Sebsi, the president of...

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April 12, 2014

Tensions with Qatar impede meeting between Obama and GCC

Diplomatic sources in Washington have revealed to the UAE-based newspaper Al-Khaleej that the political disagreement between the State of Qatar and the major Gulf States has prevented the meeting...

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April 12, 2014

Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood denies terrorist listing in Saudi Arabia and the UAE

A senior member of the Islamic Constitutional Movement, a Sunni Islamist party in Kuwait affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and known in Arabic by the acronym Hadas, denied claims...

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April 12, 2014

US seeks non-binding 'framework for negotiations'

After meetings with US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington on Monday, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli leaders were told...

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April 12, 2014

Abbas and Dahlan supporters clash on campus

Clashes erupted between supporters of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and those of Fatah’s dismissed leader Mohammed Dahlan at a university in Gaza City yesterday. Eye-witnesses told Quds Press...

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April 12, 2014

Israel demolished 697 buildings in the Negev in 2013

The Israeli Ministry of Public Security released a report revealing that in 2013 Israel demolished 697 buildings in the Negev, a desert and semi-desert region of southern Israel. The...

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