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December 17, 2014

Ethiopian rabbis accuse Israeli rabbinate of racial discrimination

Israeli rabbis of Ethiopian origin yesterday accused the Israeli rabbinate of racially discriminating against them despite all the challenges they have fought to transfer tens of thousands of Jews...

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December 17, 2014

UK minister in Jordan to discuss regional developments

Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Tobias Ellwood arrived in the Jordanian capital, Amman, yesterday on an official visit to discuss regional developments mainly in...

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December 17, 2014

Israel extends detention of female student

An Israeli court yesterday extended the detention of a female Palestinian student until next Thursday, Arabs 48 reported. The director of the legal unit in Al-Damir Association for Human...

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December 17, 2014

Investors criticise Egypt's handling of tourism industry

Tourism investors have criticised the ignorance of the Egyptian government’s handling of the industry in the Sinai Peninsula, incuding Taba, Nuweiba and Dahab. Taba and Nuweiba airports closed last...

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December 17, 2014

EU court removes Hamas from terror list

Hamas has been removed from an influential EU list of terrorist organisations. A press release following the decision, issued yesterday by the General Court of the European Union, said:...

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December 17, 2014

Lieberman slams EU support for Palestinian bid for statehood

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday criticised European countries that support the unilateral steps taken by the Palestinian leadership aimed at obtaining a UN Security Council draft resolution which...

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December 16, 2014

Why have they progressed while we have failed?

There is a big difference between us and them, but it wasn’t always that way. They used to be like us, maybe even worse 100 years ago, but we...

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December 16, 2014

Egypt briefly detains three for discussing destabilising the country

Cairo police briefly detained three men, including two Britons, after a man told them he overheard them talking about ways to destabilise the country during the upcoming anniversary of...

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December 16, 2014

Egypt: Eight female activists referred for military trial

Eight women have been referred by Egypt’s general attorney for the Ismailia Appellate Court for military trials on charges of protesting. The women are: Sarah Saber, 18 Sarah Abdel...

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December 16, 2014

Marzouki: Some saw the Tunisian revolution as a transient event but the people proved them wrong

Tunisia’s presidential candidate for the elections runoff Mohamed Moncef Marzouki said yesterday that “some considered the Tunisian revolution that overthrew the former regime, just a transient event, but the...

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