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Parliamentary election: Israel records high voter turn out

March 17, 2015 Headline 609

TEL AVIV, Israel — Voters waited in line for over an hour in some places Tuesday amid unusually high turnout in a parliamentary election pitching Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against centrist rivals including Isaac…

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Israeli soldiers raid homes, question kids

March 15, 2015 Headline 899

  TEL AVIV, Israel — Masked and armed Israeli soldiers have been recorded forcefully entering Palestinian homes and waking up, photographing and questioning children as young as nine. The videos highlight Israeli efforts to track down…

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Pakistan Church Bombings kill 14, injure 78

March 15, 2015 Headline 1205

Twin bombs outside two churches in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 during Sunday services. Witnesses said quick action by a security guard prevented many more deaths. The blasts…

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Brotherhood says its ”revolution will remain peaceful’’

March 11, 2015 Headline 570

The Muslim Brotherhood is “completely against all acts of violence and it does not have any relations with groups or movements that uses it,” the group’s spokesman Mohamed Muntaser said yesterday. Speaking on Al-Araby TV,…

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Saudi beheads rapist, murderers

March 5, 2015 Crime/Judiciary/Security 604

Saudi Arabia beheaded Tuesday a rapist and two murderers, bringing to 38 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year. Saudi Mohammed bin Ali bin Mohammed al-Bishi was convicted of raping…

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Two die in Cairo court house blast

March 2, 2015 Headline 692

Two persons were killed and nine others sustained varying degrees of injuries when a bomb exploded at the top of a court building in central Cairo, the health ministry said. It is the deadliest attack…

Members of Muslim Brotherhood behind bars

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Brotherhood spokesman reacts on death in detention

February 28, 2015 Headline 669

Mohamed Montaser, the Muslim Brotherhood’s young spokesman on Saturday assured that the martyr’s blood shall defeat the forces of the evil, fascist junta, referring to Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s Egyptian government. “More martyrs are writing with their…

Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie (L) flashes the Rabaa sign as he stands behind bars during his trial with ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and other leaders of the brotherhood at a court in the police academy on the outskirts of Cairo December 14, 2014. SOURCED: Reuters/

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Egypt sentences four Brotherhood members to death

February 28, 2015 Headline 565

Egypt sentences four Brotherhood members to death An Egyptian court, Saturday orders capital punishment for four Brotherhood members as its Supreme Guide, Mohamed Badie, receives life sentence. The court also sentenced 14 others to life…

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Saudi denies designating Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists

February 16, 2015 Headline 841

A former member of Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council, Ahmed Al-Tuwaijri, has denied that the kingdom ever designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation. The lawyer insisted that the official statement about the issue was…

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Turkey condemns illegal Israeli settlements in Jerusalem

February 11, 2015 Headline 511

Turkey today condemned Israel’s approval for the construction of new settlements in East Jerusalem. “We condemn Israel’s activities which affect the region’s stability and expect Israel to cease as soon as possible these illegal acts…

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