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July 2013

UK Rock Legend Eric Burdon + Award Winning Filmmaker Mira Nair cancel on Israel

Blogs, Israel /

Prominent film director, Mira Nair, has announced via her official Twitter account that she will not be attending Israel’s upcoming Haifa Film Festival. In a five-part statement, tweeted last Friday, Nair said: “I was just invited to Israel as a guest of honor at the Haifa International Film Festival…I will not be going to Israel […]

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OIC head: First meeting with Morsi since overthrow held on Friday

Blogs, Egypt /

Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu has said that two members of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights met on Friday with Mohamed Morsi, who has been held incommunicado by the army since his overthrow on July 3. İhsanoğlu provided no further details about the meeting. His statement came on Saturday after Egyptian

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Turkey’s Erdoğan slams EU for stance on Egypt bloodshed

Blogs, Egypt, Middle East, Turkey /

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, an outspoken supporter of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi, lashed out at the European Union and others for failing to condemn strongly enough the killing of dozens in Cairo earlier on Saturday.  Security forces shot dead dozens of Morsi supporters on Saturday, days after the army called for a

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CIA Agent: Bush Officials Threw Us ‘Under Bus’ over Rendition

America, Blogs /

Clandestine operative speaks out for first time about CIA kidnapping and torture during Bush years “It’s time to talk about this,” says former CIA operative Sabrina De Sousa, who has been convicted in absentia in Italy of the kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, in Milan in 2003. (Photo:

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Stop the Judicial Lynching of Bangladesh Jammat-e-Islami Leaders

Bangladesh, Campaign, South Asia /

Citizens International strongly condemns the conviction and death sentence passed by the much-criticised Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) on the Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid. The death sentence imposed on Mujahid is the continued judicial lynching of the top leadership of the Jamaat. Earlier, Jamaat deputy chief Delwar Hossain Sayedee and

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Academic says Turkey should adjust its foreign policy as per changes in the region

Middle East, Perspective, Turkey /

by Erkan Ertosun The author of “Our Palestine Policy” (Bizim Filistin Politikamız), Erkan Ertosun, said that Turkey’s policy of values and principles has costs for the country and that it should revise its foreign policies regarding the coup in Egypt. Erkan Ertosun, a lecturer at the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences at Ankara’s Turgut

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