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  • January 11, 2015

    Yemen's Houthis threaten to take over oil-rich Maarib

    The Houthi militant group has threatened to overrun Yemen’s eastern oil-rich Maarib province, citing what it described as the lack of government action towards the alleged presence of hundreds...

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  • January 11, 2015

    Tunisia's Ennahda says to participate in Essid Govt

    The Shura Council of Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement said on Saturday that it would participate in the government now being formed by Tunisia’s new Prime Minister Habib Essid. “A majority...

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  • January 10, 2015

    Untangling the threads of the Baghdad-Erbil oil deal

    The announcement of last month’s breakthrough oil deal between Baghdad and Erbil was widely greeted with positive murmurings in the Western press. The deal, which came into effect on...

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  • January 10, 2015

    'Storm Huda' hits Palestine

    ‘Storm Huda’ first hit Palestine on Wednesday as severe snow storms hit Ramallah and the higher areas in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem and Nablus. Heavy rain hit Gaza which has...

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  • January 10, 2015

    Saudi Arabia: King's illness ignites conflict among royal factions

    No one is more capable of understanding the Al Saud than the Al Saud themselves. There are some very specific and extremely weird traditions that govern the relations among...

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  • January 10, 2015

    Let's talk about the other dead journalists

    The grisly killing of 10 journalists and two police officers at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7 was met with global indignation. A day later, Agence...

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  • January 10, 2015

    Gaza's power crisis claiming lives

    Three year old Amr Al Habeel and his older brother Khalid, four, were sleeping when the fire that took their lives broke out in their bedroom last week. The...

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  • January 10, 2015

    2,100 Syrians tortured to death in regime prisons

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Friday that 2,100 Syrians had died in the prisons of the Syrian regime in 2014. The signs of torture appeared...

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  • January 10, 2015

    Academic warns of continued Moroccan-Egyptian tensions

    A leading Moroccan academic warned on Friday of the “continued tensions” between Morocco and Egypt which erupted in the wake of TV reports. Director of the Rabat Centre for...

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  • January 10, 2015

    Hamas: US criticism of Meshaal's visit to Turkey 'shameless'

    Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, described on Friday the American criticism of the visit by its top leader Khalid Meshaal to Turkey as “shameless position.” Anadolu News Agency reported...

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