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Nizar Banat’s death highlights brutality of Palestinian Authority | Palestinian territories
Nizar Banat knew he was going to die. As he grew bolder calling out corrupt members of Fatah, the party...
Read moreInternational talks aim for consensus on Taliban government | Taliban
Talks are due in Doha and New York to try to reach an international consensus on the conditions for recognising...
Read moreMissile and drone attack kills at least 30 in south Yemen | Yemen
A missile and drone attack on a key military base in south Yemen has killed at least 30 troops, a...
Read morePalestinian boy shot by Israeli soldiers during clashes on Gaza border dies | Israel
A 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot last week by Israeli soldiers during clashes along the border with Gaza has died of...
Read moreHistoric Anglo-Egyptian treaty signed in London – archive, 1936 | Egypt
Fleet Street, WednesdayOnce again the Locarno Room at the Foreign Office to-day saw history made is the British and Egyptian...
Read moreQatar has failed to explain up to 70% of migrant worker deaths in past 10 years – Amnesty | Workers’ rights
World Cup host Qatar has failed to investigate the deaths of thousands of migrant workers in the past decade, according...
Read moreAustralian engineer Robert Pether sentenced to five years in Iraqi prison after dispute with central bank | Australia news
The family of Australian engineer Robert Pether say they are “living in hell” after he was sentenced to five years...
Read moreSouad review – shrewd and poignant study of social media identities | Film
As well as being subtle, tender and sad, this feature from Egyptian director Ayten Amin is one of those rare...
Read more‘Is this justice?’: why Sudan is facing a multibillion-dollar bill for 9/11 | Sudan
Five months after the terrorist strikes by al-Qaida on 11 September 2001, a lawyer named Ron Motley received a phone...
Read more‘I saw children falling down’: panic and despair in Kabul as time runs out | Afghanistan
For the past four days, Nangyalai, a 42-year-old minicab driver from south London, has been queueing with his wife and...
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