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Qatar burnishes role as 'essential' hostage negotiator with Israel-Hamas deal
AFP, Published on 22/11/2023
» PARIS - The emirate of Qatar has further boosted its status as a specialist power in resolving delicate hostage situations by using its influence to help secure the release of hostages by Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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A Thai view on the Hamas-Israel war
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 20/10/2023
» The Palestinians' longstanding and legitimate grievances have been irrevocably subverted by Hamas' brazen attack against Israel on Oct 7. Unlike previous rounds of conflicts and clashes between Israel and the Palestinians on the one hand and neighbouring Arab states on the other, Thailand has become a direct casualty like never before, as 30 Thai workers have been killed to date, with at least 16 injured and 17 taken hostage. As a militant political movement motivated by Islamic fundamentalism using methods of terrorism to achieve its objectives, Hamas has made a bad name for the Palestinian cause, eliciting condemnation and opposition all the way over here in Thailand.
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Islamic scholar acquitted in Swiss rape trial
AFP, Published on 24/05/2023
» GENEVA: A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and sexual coercion, finding no evidence against the former Oxford University professor.
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Jailed at 17, dissident wrote to survive
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Abdelrahman ElGendy envisioned the ending of his book would be inspiring, despite all the horrors he would have to recount.
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Egypt FM to head to Turkey, Syria for first time in decade
AFP, Published on 27/02/2023
» CAIRO - Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will head to Turkey and Syria Monday morning, his office said, for the first such visit in a decade of tense relations with both countries.
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Erdogan, Sisi meet in Qatar for the first time
AFP, Published on 21/11/2022
» ISTANBUL - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met on Sunday in Qatar for the first time, a picture from Turkey's presidency showed.
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VDOs search for " Muslim Brotherhood "
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Egypt calls for crackdown against Muslim Brotherhood, as Islamists warn of 'police state'
By Reuters
Posted at 05/07/2013
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An ugly side to the beautiful game
News, Published on 15/11/2022
» When the World Cup kicks off next weekend, a Western sense of fair play will be outraged that a country without any native tradition in the game has won the right to host the tournament through financial muscle. Insult is added to injury too -- due to Qatar's extreme temperatures, the World Cup isn't being staged during the usual summer break but in November, disrupting domestic soccer competitions in the northern hemisphere for six weeks. Fans and players just have to lump it.
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Writer puzzled by his literary prize
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 07/08/2022
» For African writers living in France, there is a dream they will never acknowledge publicly, a character says in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men. That dream -- "our shame, but also the glory we fantasise about" -- is to be praised by France and its literary establishment.
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Tunisia: The last Arab democracy goes under
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 29/07/2022
» Tunisia would seem to have everything going for it. Average salaries are the third-highest in all of Africa's fifty countries, just behind Morocco and South Africa. Literacy is 97% among the under-30s, population growth is only 1% a year, and it's a democracy that functions under the rule of law. Or rather, it was.
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Saudi crown prince pays first visit to Turkey since Khashoggi murder
AFP, Published on 22/06/2022
» ANKARA: Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler will on Wednesday take another step towards breaking his international isolation by paying his first visit to Turkey since the murder in 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate.
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