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  • Israeli defense min.: Administrative detention for arsonists who burnt Palestinian toddler

    Israeli defense min.: Administrative detention for arsonists who burnt Palestinian toddler

    Date: 2015-08-02 11:10:10 GMT - palestine - International - SN:8 - ID:3085537

    Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon instructed on Sunday morning security forces to use administrative detention (arrest without trial) to hold the suspected arsonists who set fire to a house in Nablus's Duma town last week, the Jerusalem Post ....

  • 260 PKK members killed in Turkey air strikes: Report

    260 PKK members killed in Turkey air strikes: Report

    Date: 2015-08-01 10:54:37 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:7 - ID:3080173

    Around 260 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been killed and hundreds more wounded in Ankara's week-long campaign of air strikes against targets of the group inside Turkey and in northern Iraq, Hurriyet Daily reported on ....

  • Turkish opposition party challenges Erdoğan remarks against Kurds

    Turkish opposition party challenges Erdoğan remarks against Kurds

    Date: 2015-07-29 18:24:24 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:16 - ID:3066709

    The pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) on Wednesday submitted a list of its members' signatures calling for lifting their parliamentary immunity. HDP's leader Selahattin Demirtas said that the party refuses parliamentary immunity and its ....

  • Israeli PM approves 300 settler homes in occupied West Bank

    Israeli PM approves 300 settler homes in occupied West Bank

    Date: 2015-07-29 12:38:50 GMT - palestine - International - SN:8 - ID:3064133

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday approved the "immediate" construction of 300 settler homes in the occupied West Bank as his government came under pressure from right-wing Jewish groups, according to France 24. "After ....

  • Nigerian president to visit Cameroon on Wednesday

    Nigerian president to visit Cameroon on Wednesday

    Date: 2015-07-28 13:15:55 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:10 - ID:3057989

    A Nigerian official said newly elected President Muhammadu Buhari will make his first official visit to one-time enemy Cameroon on Wednesday to ease tension and bolster support for a regional army to fight the Boko Haram Islamic uprising spilling ....

  • Obama: Africa’s progress dependent on development, democracy

    Obama: Africa’s progress dependent on development, democracy

    Date: 2015-07-28 13:14:00 GMT - Ethiopia - International - SN:9 - ID:3057945

    In his farewell speech capping a historic trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, U.S. President Barack Obama hailed Africa's extraordinary progress, while noting that such progress can only be sustained through continued development and democracy for all, ....

  • Obama in Ethiopia for talks on South Sudan sanctions

    Obama in Ethiopia for talks on South Sudan sanctions

    Date: 2015-07-27 07:25:33 GMT - USA - International - SN:1 - ID:3048389

    US President Barack Obama arrived in Ethiopia late on Sunday as part of an African tour that also took him to Kenya, a senior US administration official said. Obama will hold talks with leaders of Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia on the possibility of ....

  • Obama heads for Ethiopia

    Obama heads for Ethiopia

    Date: 2015-07-26 17:49:57 GMT - Kenya - International - SN:21 - ID:3046773

    US President Barack Obama left Kenya Sunday for Ethiopia on the second and final leg of his state visit to Africa, according to Voice of America. Obama's visits to Kenya and Ethiopia come to continue his efforts to improve their economies, ....

  • Israeli officials hit back at Kerry statements

    Israeli officials hit back at Kerry statements

    Date: 2015-07-26 08:25:06 GMT - Israel - International - SN:5 - ID:3042877

    An Israeli official hit back at US Secretary of State John Kerry over the weekend following remarks that were perceived by the government in Jerusalem as "thinly veiled efforts to muzzle criticism" of the Iran nuclear agreement, The Jerusalem Post ....

  • Closure plan of Guantanamo prison in 'final stages' - White House

    Closure plan of Guantanamo prison in 'final stages' - White House

    Date: 2015-07-23 08:01:12 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:3027821

    The White House is in the "final stages" of drafting a plan to close the controversial US military prison Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman has said. Josh Earnest said the closure of the Cuban detention camp was a national security interest. It was ....

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