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January 24, 2014

The rise of gender selection among Middle Eastern couples

Sex selection is a dirty phrase in Western countries, but Middle Eastern couples are jumping on fertility technology as changing attitudes make it easier and more acceptable to ‘make...

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January 24, 2014

Determined to ignore reality? Questions that the Iraqi Ministry of Health-WHO report didn't ask

Iraq’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation have published a summary report of ex-post assessment of the prevalence of birth defects, still-births and miscarriages in the country...

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January 24, 2014

Israel disgruntled as Iran and the US move closer together

Israel’s Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has made no secret of his feelings about the apparent détente between Iran and the US. In a speech to the UN earlier this...

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January 24, 2014

As negotiations get nowhere, the seeds of change must be sown in the West

Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians are, we are told, getting nowhere. It’s taken some people 20+ years to understand that simple fact, but there you go. Ever since...

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January 24, 2014

Former motel plays key role in rehabilitation of wounded fighters

In a small motel room in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, within sight of the mountains of Syria, a former Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighter sits with his...

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January 24, 2014

Our revolutions will not prevail until we revolt against ourselves

Careful scrutiny of opposition groups that have come to power or who are fighting to gain power reveals that they are often mirror images of the tyrants they replace....

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January 24, 2014

Why Saudi Arabia rejected its seat in the UN Security Council

Saudi Arabia has turned into a country of political surprises and shocks almost overnight. First its Foreign Minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, refused to give his speech at the UN...

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January 24, 2014

Hamas is going through a suffocating crisis but it's not weak and could still shuffle its cards

No one, neither inside or outside the occupied territories, would argue over whether or not the Islamic Resistance movement, Hamas, was living through a severe political and economic crisis....

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January 24, 2014

Iran-US reconciliation is part of a bigger picture

Change is happening in the Middle East, much more than is reflected in a fifteen minute phone call between Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and his US counterpart Barack Obama...

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January 24, 2014

Israel's latest stunt to keep settlement expansion away from critics

Whilst peace talks between Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are currently underway, internationally deemed illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank continue to mushroom....

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