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July 1, 2014

Presidential candidate for Turkish opposition visits Ataturk's tomb

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the joint presidential candidate for Turkey’s two main opposition parties, has visited Anitkabir, where the Turkish Republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is buried in Ankara. Ihsanoglu is...

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July 1, 2014

Erdoğan eyes first-round victory in Turkish presidential election

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been declared the ruling AK Party’s official candidate in the August 2014 presidential election. The announcement in Ankara put an end to weeks...

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July 1, 2014

Obama sends additional troops to Iraq

US President Barack Obama has committed an additional 300 American troops to shore up security in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad with a mission to protect its international airport,...

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July 1, 2014

Knesset passes first reading of bill that allows force-feeding hunger striking prisoners

The Israeli parliament on Monday passed the first reading of a bill that would permit the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike. Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are either...

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July 1, 2014

Egyptian anti-MB activists refuse to celebrate 30 June

Egyptian revolutionary forces who supported the 2013 coup refused to take part in 30 June celebrations, stressing that 30 June aimed at excluding the Muslim Brotherhood, and that 25...

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July 1, 2014

Russia seeks UN condemnation of Syrian oil sales by terrorist groups

Russia has asked the United Nations Security Council to condemn the sale of Syrian oil by terrorist groups, including ISIS and Al-Nusra Front, diplomats reported. A draft presidential statement...

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July 1, 2014

US: ISIS' announcement of 'Islamic Caliphate' has no meaning

The United States said the announcement by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) of the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate on the territory it controls in...

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July 1, 2014

Netanyahu vows 'Hamas will pay' after settlers found dead

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Hamas for the deaths of the three Israeli settlers who had apparently been abducted from a settlement near Hebron in the West Bank....

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July 1, 2014

Unrest in Iraq costs Jordan $113m a month

The unrest in Iraq costs Jordanian industries approximately 80 million Jordanian dinars a month, the Chairman of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Association Fathi Jaghbir said yesterday. Jaghbir...

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June 30, 2014

Adapt, survive and thrive: UNRWA responds to the Syria crisis

It was the start of another day for the UNRWA team in Syria. Our convoy entered the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus on 31 January where,...

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