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January 6, 2015

Hamas denies Qatari request for Meshaal's departure

A senior Hamas leader has denied reports that Qatar had asked the group’s political chief, Khaled Meshaal, to leave the Gulf country. “Reports of Meshaal’s departure from Doha are...

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January 6, 2015

Iraqi president calls for building a professional army

Iraqi President Fuad Masum today called for building the Iraqi army based on a professional basis, free of partisan or sectarian adherences, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement...

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January 6, 2015

Air Arabia acquires 49% of Jordanian aviation company

The UAE company Air Arabia said it has completed the acquisition of 49 per cent of the shares of the Jordanian company Petra Aviation. Air Arabia, which is listed...

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January 6, 2015

Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy should be released not retried in Egypt

Below is the text of the letter written by Mohamed Fahmy’s legal counsel, as published by the Huffington Post. On 1 January 2015, the Egyptian Court of Cassation issued...

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January 6, 2015

Assad underlines importance of economic cooperation with Iran

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad yesterday highlighted the importance of developing economic cooperation with Iran, emphasising the importance of merging the countries’ economic, strategic and political visions, Syria’s official news...

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January 6, 2015

Syria says US and French diplomats visited country illegally

Syria has complained to the United Nations that US Senator John McCain, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and former US diplomat Peter Galbraith entered the country without visas,...

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January 6, 2015

'Serious' development in internal Lebanese dialogue

The two main Sunni and Shia Lebanese parties have reached a “serious” development in their bilateral dialogue aimed at decreasing sectarian tensions in the country, they said in a...

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January 6, 2015

There is no difference between Abbas and Dahlan

Palestinian media outlets are trying to make out that the meeting between Mohammad Dahlan and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is something unusual; as if the ex-Fatah official and...

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January 6, 2015

Israeli group files war crimes complaints against Palestinian leaders at ICC

An Israel based rights organisation yesterday filed war crimes complaints against three Palestinian leaders before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper revealed. The...

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January 6, 2015

Ennahda happy with Essid's nomination

A leader in Tunisia’s Ennahda party said that the movement does not have any objection to Habib Essid who was assigned by President Beji Caid Essebsi to form a...

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