POSTED BY: MAI HUSSIEN SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 The Secretary of State for International Development in Britain Priti Patel announced that Britain will provide an additional £37 million in funding for Yemen this year, said Express newspaper on Sept.22. She also said that the government’s extra £37m this year, will bring the total to £100m, while the UK is facing […]
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Medical staff tell MEE they are struggling in face of Russian air attacks, and watch as civilians die through lack of doctors and supplies Civilians litter the floor of a make-shift hospital following air attacks on Aleppo on 24 September, 2016 (AFP) Aleppo hospital staff say they are overwhelmed with casualties in the face of appalling
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By Bilal Abdul Kareem Tags: Bashar Assad, Aleppo, Aid Convoy, Syria Negotiations, FSA, Al Qaeda, Islamic State Show comments Five years on, Syria is no longer a conflict that can be solved with negotiations among powers that lack the will in the first place Most of the outside world watched in horroratnewsthatthe ill-fated Aleppo aid convoy was blasted and burned.
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By Franklin Lamb Pauper’s Cemetery, Najha, Syria One month old conjoined twins Narwas and Mou’az Al-Hashash died needlessly this month in a Damascus hospital because they were the innocent victims of what International Humanitarian Law defines as War Crimes. (Photo: Courtesy of Zahra Hospital, East Ghouta, Syria) The boys are buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave
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By Marc Patrick Conaghan Scottish club’s followers have always shown solidarity towards the dispossessed and oppressed This verse is from a song that Celtic football fans sing called The Fields of Athenry. Written during the 1970s, it tells the story of a family dispossessed of their land and left starving due to the Great Irish
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By Ertan Aydin The coup failed because the Turkish people acted like true Jedi Knights of democracy, resisting the tanks and bullets of Gulen’s Hizmet Army The details of Turkey’s 15 July coup attempt show a surprising resemblance to the plot of theStar Wars films. If the uprising had been successful, then this article would have
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Politicians Hamdeen Sabahi (L) and Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh (R) A citizen has filed a report claiming former presidential candidates Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabahi have spied for Hezbollah and Iran Egypt’s prosecutor-general has ordered an investigation into a police report that accuses politicians Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabahi of spying for Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary
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– In similar circumstances, no one would have posted such information about the US president’s whereabouts, argues analyst Tweets by U.S.-based firm Stratfor on the Turkish president’s flight to Istanbul from Marmaris on the night of the July 15 coup attempt have drawn attention and controversy worldwide, said Anadolu Agency in a report on Tuesday. Founded
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By Peter Speetjens Allegations of complicity in 2002 riots that saw some 2,000 Muslims killed belie Modi’s efforts to present himself as a moderate statesman A special court in the city of Ahmedabad, the capital of western India’s Gujarat state, in June condemned 11 people to life for their role in deadly inter-religious riots in 2002. This
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By Rori Donaghy Emirati company part-owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, brother of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, is key supplier of cows to Israel Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan at a Premier League football match (AFP) A senior Emirati royal is a significant shareholder of a billion-dollar company that is
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