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July 14, 2019

Turkish Cypriots propose gas cooperation after tensions rise

Turkish Cypriots have proposed to the Greek Cypriot government that they cooperate in the search for gas off the divided island, Turkey said on Saturday in a Reuters report,...

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July 14, 2019

More bodies found in Tunisia migrant ship sinking

Update at 15.30 BST: The number of bodies recovered by Tunisia after a ship packed with migrants sank off its coast last week has risen to 82. More bodies...

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July 14, 2019

Air strikes on Syrian rebel enclave intensify

Air strikes targeted rebel-held cities in northwest Syria on Friday, a war monitor reported, widening bombardment of the last major insurgent enclave to areas that had mostly escaped it....

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July 14, 2019

Iran launches drone and missile strikes on Kurdish positions in Iraq

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards used drones and missiles to strike headquarters of a Kurdish militant group near Iran’s border with neighbouring Iraq’s Kurdistan region, the Iranian semi-official Tasnim news...

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July 14, 2019

Gibraltar says it alone took decision to detain Iranian tanker

Gibraltar took the decision to seize an Iranian tanker last week solely because the ship was in breach of European Union sanctions and not on the request of any...

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July 14, 2019

Profile: Ghassan Kanafani (1936 – 1972)

Palestinian activist and novelist was murdered in Beirut by a bomb planted in his car by Israel’s Mossad spy agency on 8 July 1972. He was 36 years old....

Profiles
July 13, 2019

Far from being impartial, Panorama was a partisan attack on Labour's left

Right from the opening, there were glaring signs that Wednesday night’s “Panorama” would be anything but the impartial public broadcasting that the BBC claims to champion. The hour-long special...

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July 13, 2019

Orthodox Church to challenge sale of its property to Israel settlers

The Greek Orthodox Church will next week petition against a final ruling of Israel’s Supreme Court which approved the sale of church property in East Jerusalem’s Old City to...

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July 13, 2019

Report: 74 Palestinians wounded by Israel forces in Gaza

The wounded included 23 children, two women, two journalists and two paramedics...

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July 13, 2019

Cuba should be careful not to normalise Israel's colonisation of Palestine

In 1947, Cuba was one of the few countries opposing the UN Partition Plan, which laid the groundwork for Israel’s colonisation of Palestine. At the time, the Cuban envoy...

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