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August 21, 2014

One year on and still no justice after Syria's deadliest event in 25 years

Justice remains a remote possibility for the victims of the chemical weapons attacks on Ghouta, near Damascus, last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today. Hundreds of people were...

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August 21, 2014

Al-Sisi exempts army institutions from real estate tax

Clubs, hotels, complexes and medical centres owned by the armed forces will be exempt from the property tax following a decree issued by Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi yesterday....

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August 21, 2014

Tutu pleads to Israelis, liberate yourselves by liberating Palestine

Archbishop Desmond Tutu was at the forefront of the anti-apartheid movement in his native South Africa. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, and has used his platform...

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August 21, 2014

US to deploy additional troops to Iraq

A senior US official said yesterday that the US Department of Defence plans to send an additional 300 US soldiers to Iraq at the request of the State Department....

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August 21, 2014

Egypt: Jordanian and Israeli sentenced for spying

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced a Jordanian to 10 years in prison and an Israeli intelligence officer, tried in absentia, to life imprisonment on charges of spying for Israel....

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August 21, 2014

Egyptian Doctors' Syndicate: Electricity crisis threatens patients' lives

The Egyptian Doctors’ Syndicate said that the power outage crisis is threatening the lives of patients in hospitals, especially in intensive care units, operating rooms and neonates in incubators....

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August 21, 2014

While Gaza war rages, Israel quietly speeds up settlement construction in the West Bank and Jerusalem

Israel started construction on hundreds of housing units in the West Bank and Jerusalem since its assault on the Gaza Strip began in early July, Palestinian experts on settlement...

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August 21, 2014

Palestinian memory, Protective Edge and the Nakba

Since the commencement of Operation Protective Edge, various Israeli leaders have regurgitated the rhetoric of blame, imposition and the appropriation of memory. Justifying settler-colonial violence is linked directly to...

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August 21, 2014

Netanyahu slams security cabinet's ministers

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday slammed his security council’s members claiming “they have to stop anti-government remarks”. In a press conference held with his Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon...

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August 21, 2014

Haaretz: In targeting Deif, Netanyahu took a risk to boost morale

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to satisfy Zionists by assassinating Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif but he failed, Israeli newspaper Haaretz said. The newspaper said: “The attempt to...

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