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Israeli Far-Right Minister Backs Contentious West Bank Settlement Plan

This is Beirut, 14/08 22:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Israel's finance minister on Thursday backed plans to build 3,400 homes in a particularly contentious area of the occupied West Bank, calling for the territory's annexation in response to several countries' plans to recognize a Palestinian state. In response, the United Nations chief warned that building Israeli homes in the area ...

Turkey Reports Mass Return by Syrians

This is Beirut, 14/08 18:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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More than 410,00 Syrians who fled to Turkey during the rule of Bashar al-Assad have returned home since he was overthrown in December, the government announced Thursday. Turkey's interior ministry said 411,649 Syrians had so far returned, the rate picking up in recent weeks, with the immigration service recording 140,000 returns since ...

UN Commission Finds Violence Against Syria Alawites Likely Included 'War Crimes'

This is Beirut, 14/08 11:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A UN commission investigating sectarian bloodshed in Syria's Alawite heartland documented systematic violence at the hands of government forces and allied groups, warning Thursday that some of the acts could constitute war crimes. The violence in March unfolded along Syria's predominantly Alawite Mediterranean coast, where security personnel ...

At Least 40 Dead in Sudan's Worst Cholera Outbreak in Years: MSF

This is Beirut, 14/08 10:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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At least 40 people have died in Sudan's Darfur region in the country's worst cholera outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. The medical charity said the vast western region, which has been a major battleground over more than two years of fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, had ...

European Powers Tell UN They Are Ready to Reimpose Iran Sanctions

This is Beirut, 13/08 11:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Britain, France and Germany have told the United Nations they are ready to reimpose UN-mandated sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program if no diplomatic solution is found by the end of August, according to a joint letter obtained by AFP. The letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council says the three European ...

Rebuilding in Devastated Mariupol Under Russia's Thumb

This is Beirut, 13/08 09:50 - Reading : 8 minute(s)

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Sun-seekers crowded onto the beach in Mariupol in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine -- a devastated city which Moscow wants to turn into an improbable seaside resort. "Take a dip in the Sea of Azov!" said 52-year-old local Ivan, who like other beach goers lapped up the good weather and mild waters of a coastline that is now entirely ...

Netanyahu’s Gaza Strategy: Ambiguity, Internal Divisions and Looming Chaos

Élie-Joe Kamel, 12/08 18:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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As the war in Gaza enters its 22nd month, political and on the ground uncertainties continue to grow. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent statements highlight this growing strategic confusion. He says he wants to “take control of Gaza,” while specifying that Israel has “no intention of governing” the territory. This ...

How Long Will Impunity Prevail in Syria?

Moncef Ait-Kaci, 12/08 18:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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In Sweida, the worst escalation in years erupted on July 12 after reciprocal kidnappings between Druze groups and Bedouin tribes spiraled into rapidly escalating armed clashes. The Syrian Army intervened but, according to the UN and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the fighting left more than 1,400 dead, mostly Druze civilians, and ...

WHO Wants More Aid in Gaza Ahead of Israeli Occupation of the City

This is Beirut, 12/08 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The UN health agency on Tuesday said Israel should let it stock medical supplies to deal with a "catastrophic" health situation in Gaza before it seizes control of Gaza City. Israel has said its military would "take control" of Gaza City in a plan approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet that sparked a wave of global ...

Sudan Refugees Face Cholera Outbreak with Nothing But Lemons for Medicine

This is Beirut, 12/08 11:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In the cholera-stricken refugee camps of western Sudan, every second is infected by fear. Faster than a person can boil water over an open flame, the flies descend and everything is contaminated once more. Cholera is ripping through the camps of Tawila in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have been left with nothing but the water they ...

Syria Vows Accountability After Video of Sweida Hospital Killing

This is Beirut, 11/08 19:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syria said Monday it would hold accountable those responsible for the apparent killing of an unarmed man at a hospital during violence last month in Druze-majority Sweida province, after a purported video of the incident emerged. "We condemn and denounce this act in the strongest terms and affirm that the perpetrators will be held accountable and ...

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