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  • December 20, 2014

    Concerns about Algerian president's health brushed aside

    Concerns about the health of the President of Algeria have been brushed aside by the chairman of the ruling national Liberation Front. Ammar Saadani said that the mental and...

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  • December 20, 2014

    Qatar and Turkey boost strategic cooperation

    Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani has signed a series of agreements with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, including a memorandum to establish a “Supreme Strategic Committee” and a...

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  • December 20, 2014

    In the fight against apartheid, Christian Palestinians defy Israel's propaganda

    In 2012, then-Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in which he claimed that “Christians in ...

    Article

  • December 20, 2014

    US Congress passes bill increasing weapons in Israel by $200 million

    The US Senate has unanimously passed a bill supplying Israel with military equipment that would enable it to execute an air strike on Iran. The bill, titled the US-Israel...

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  • December 20, 2014

    Hamas: between resistance and government: part 1

    While the group was removed this week from the European Union’s “terrorist” list, there has always been an inherent contradiction at the heart of Hamas, Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement....

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  • December 20, 2014

    US to send 1,300 troops to Iraq

    Washington is to send 1,300 soldiers to Iraq next month to train Iraqi security forces, the Pentagon announced on Friday. The announcement was made in a media conference by...

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  • December 20, 2014

    'We will beat political money,' insists Marzouki

    Presidential candidate Moncef Marzouki said on Friday that he would win over those who consider money to be everything in politics, Anadolu news agency has reported. Speaking at the...

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  • December 20, 2014

    Just 2% of pledges paid for rebuilding Gaza

    Palestinian and international officials have revealed that only 2 per cent of the pledges made by donor states to rebuild the Gaza Strip have actually been paid. The pledges...

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  • December 20, 2014

    Hamas accuses Israel of breaching truce

    Palestinian faction Hamas on Saturday said that Israel’s “daily violations” in the Gaza Strip are violations of a cease-fire agreement with resistance factions. “Israeli airstrikes this morning and the...

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  • December 20, 2014

    Israeli official warns that another war against Gaza is looming

    An Israeli official has warned that a new Israeli war on the Gaza Strip is coming soon. He stressed, however, that wars are only decided on by politicians, local...

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