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Lebanon: Eminent Shi’ite scholar Sayyed Hani Fahs passes away

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Prominent Shi’ite scholar Sayyed Hani Fahs and popular opponent of Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syrian civil war passed away in Beirut on Thursday, succumbing to a long-term illness. The 68-year-old had been in a coma after he was admitted to a hospital a few days ago. A moderate figure who commanded respect both outside and inside the Shi’ite community, Fahs …

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Paris:Hollande meets with Mahmud Abbas, says they have a “solution” to Israel-Palestinian crisis

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On Friday, French President Francois Hollande spoke to press personnel after his meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in Paris,and said that a “solution to the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis will be presented to the UN Security Council. “We will have a resolution, to be presented to the Security Council, that will say very clearly what we …

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US: Training Syrian rebels won’t “happen overnight”; Iran open to talks on IS threat

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On Friday, The White House warned that training and providing arms to moderate rebel troops in Syria to fight the Islamic State (IS) will take months, only a day after the US Congress approved the plan in a rare show of bipartisanship. “We will move out as rapidly as can be done, in partnership with the countries that will host …

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South Africa: “Open Mosque” for women and gay people opens

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South African Muslim academic Taj Hargey has pledged to go ahead and start a woman-friendly and gay-friendly mosque in his country, despite receiving several death threats over the issue. Taj Hargey is the director of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford, an organization of “forward thinking” Muslims; Hargey says that his Open Mosque will welcome people of all sexual orientations, …

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France launches first air strike in Iraq

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On Friday, France conducted its first air strike on the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, augmenting strikes conducted by the United States strikes and boosting its efforts to unite global powers against the threat the extremists pose. After France famously refused to participate in the US-led invasion of the Iraq in 2003, it became the first country to join the …

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UN Rights chief wants perpetrators of migrant “mass murder” to be brought to justice

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UN Human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein said that smugglers accused of sinking a boat, causing the deaths of around 500 migrants, are probably guilty of “mass murder” and should be put on trial. “The callous act of deliberately ramming a boat full of hundreds of defenseless people is a crime that must not go unpunished. If the survivors’ …

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Vienna: Western powers want Iran to address nuclear weapons fear

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Western powers on Thursday told Iran that it must cooperate with the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation team looking into suspected nuclear weapon research conducted by the country if it wants an expansive nuclear deal which would lift some sanctions. The warning was given out after a board meeting of the IAEA at Vienna, as negotiators from six …

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Syria: IS extremists surround Kurdish town

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Extremists from the Islamic State (IS) have captured several villages around the city of Ain al-Arab thanks to heavy weaponry, as they closed in on the third largest Syrian town, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said on Thursday. “IS fighters have seized at least 21 villages around Kobane”, the Observatory’s director Rami Abdel Rahman said, referring to the town …

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Israel: Arab rights organization demands international probe into alleged Israeli army war crimes

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On Thursday, Israeli Arab rights group Adalah called for an international probe into alleged war crime committed by Israel during the 50-day war with Hamas, a week after the Israeli army dismissed several such investigations. On September 10th, the Israeli army launched five criminal probes into incidents involving its soldiers during the conflict, in which over 2,140 Palestinians had died. …

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IS video of another captive British journalist promises to reveal the “truth”

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Extremist group Islamic State (IS) on Thursday released a video of a British journalist John Cantlie to show that he was being held captive by the group. The video, which was posted on YouTube, shows Cantlie dressed in an orange jumpsuit speaking to the camera – he promised to reveal the “truth” about the extremist group in a series of …

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