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Judges at the Hague-based International Criminal Court rejected on Thursday the Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s November decision not to probe the Israeli raid on Turkish Mavi Marmara ship and demanded that the court reopens the case. Nine Turkish sailors and Read more
The meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Ministerial Council ended in Riyadh with a statement dwelling on all the issues confronting the Middle East and North Africa. The six-member body also criticized some countries for their actions against the Read more
The report of the U.N inquiry that focused on ten incidents which took place during last year’s summer war between Hamas and Israel has been submitted but only a summary of it was released to the general public on Monday Read more
President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Hamas of conniving with Israel as they secretly discuss what the Palestinian Authorities call “a project of state in temporary borders” within the Gaza Strip despite Palestinians vowing to agree only to a deal that includes the Read more
President Mahmoud Abbas has thanked the Qatari officials for their gesture after they loaned $100 million to the Palestinian Authority to help it pay the salaries of its civil servants and alleviate an economic crisis triggered by a row with Read more
The Palestinian Authority has become a full-fledged member of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), paving the way for Palestinians to launch legal against Isreal for war crimes. Commenting the move, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said: “this is a Read more
Xavier Abu Eid, a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has warned that Netanyahu’s victory could mark the beginning of discriminatory policies against Arab citizens of Israel and also the end of negotiations with Palestine considering the remarks made Read more
President Rivlin of Israel is discouraging Palestinians from taking their differences with the Jewish state to the International Criminal Court (ICC) because it is not the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tel Aviv has already started lobbying for countries to Read more
The United Nations Organization has just published an alarming report on the blatant human rights abuses and “acts of violence of an increasingly sectarian nature” committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) over a period of Read more
One of Libya’s most wanted men, Abdullah Senoussi, has been extradited by Mauritania. He was the former intelligence chief under the former regime. Mr. Senoussi was arrested in March on his arrival in Mauritania in a flight from Casablanca, sparking Read more