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February 17, 2014

Western-backed counter-revolutionaries "trying to abort Arab revolutions"

A member of the General Secretariat of the World Federation for Human Rights, Dr. Ali Mohamed Alsalabi, has warned of plots against the popular Arab uprisings which toppled despots...

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February 17, 2014

Morsi annuls controversial decree but insists on referendum

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has annulled the controversial decree which led to demonstrations on the streets of Cairo, but is insisting that a referendum on the proposed constitution should...

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February 17, 2014

Israelis sweep West Bank cities and detain 11

Israeli security forces have made a sweep of cities in the occupied West Bank and detained 11 Palestinians. The Israelis used vehicles equipped with anti-missile weapons during the operation...

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February 17, 2014

Olmert criticises Netanyahu for not negotiating with Abbas

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has criticised his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, for not negotiating with Mahmoud Abbas, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday. Speaking at a business convention,...

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February 17, 2014

Almost 300,000 Palestinians detained by Israel since 1987

Almost 300,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been detained in Israeli prisons since the start of the first Intifada on 8 December 1987. The figures have been revealed in...

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February 16, 2014

Marzouki postpones withdrawal from Tunisian coalition

Tunisia’s interim President, Moncef Marzouki, has postponed his party’s withdrawal from the country’s coalition government. The Congress for the Republic Party (CPR), which he heads, has expressed its opposition...

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February 16, 2014

Hamas calls for all Palestinians to be given vote

The head of the Refugee Committee of Hamas has said that all Palestinians, wherever they live, should be given a vote in the proposed general elections. Issam Odwan called...

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February 16, 2014

OIC discusses international donor conference for Jerusalem with the UN

During a meeting with UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in New York last night, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, discussed the possibility of holding...

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February 16, 2014

Israel links release of PA tax revenues to ruling Hamas out

Chief Palestinian negotiator and member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, on Monday denounced the connection Israel has made between releasing tax revenues...

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February 16, 2014

Abbas calls for world intervention to save hunger strikers

President Mahmoud Abbas has called for international intervention to save the lives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. The Palestinian Authority head said that the Israelis...

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