Fifty-four members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to put pressure on Israel to ease the siege of the Gaza Strip. The letter was the initiative of Representatives Jim McDermott from Washington and Keith Ellison from Minnesota, both of whom are Democrats, Israeli daily Haaretz said. Ellison is...
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Israel’s diplomats in Ankara have rejected an Israeli foreign ministry’s report accusing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of inciting anti-Semitism. Israel’s embassy in Ankara sent an angry message home, saying a report on Israeli-Turkish ties prepared by the Foreign Ministry’s Center for Political Research was “divorced from reality.” The classified report, distributed to...
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Bahrain’s government employees have been told to adhere to appropriate protocol and appearance requirements when on official missions in order to better reflect the status of the country and avoid punitive action.”Government officials are the reflection of the country’s status and in this capacity, any wrong attitude from their will have negative repercussions on...
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A good wish call from Egypt’s foreign minister to his Algerian counterpart ahead of a crucial game between the two nations was scorned by Algerian media. “The Egyptian congratulations on Algeria’s qualification to play in the semi finals were three days late and do not augur well for the match on Thursday,” Echerouk newspaper...
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Kuwaiti MPs are pressing the government to investigate alleged shortcomings in preventing the highway tragedy that killed five Kuwaitis and critically injured many people. “There is information that a Kuwaiti national had called the police to tell them about the crowd gathering to watch a car race on the Doha highway. He called about...
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