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Canada revokes charity status of group linked to Israel
Jan 29, 2019 09:19Canada has revoked the charity status of a Jewish organization following a government audit that found it has funded Israeli military projects and settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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UN investigator in Khashoggi case demands access to Saudi consulate in Istanbul, not allowed yet
Jan 27, 2019 09:18A United Nations expert who has been assigned to investigate the state-sponsored assassination of Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi says she has requested access to Riyadh’s consulate in Istanbul, where the critic was brutally killed, but has not heard from Riyadh yet.
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Iran summons Swiss ambassador over Press TV anchor's detention in US
Jan 22, 2019 13:20Iran has summoned the Swiss ambassador to Tehran to protest the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s "illegal" detention of Press TV news anchor Marzieh Hashemi, who had traveled to the United States to visit her family.
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Fleeing Saudi Arabia: Asylum seeker numbers triple
Jan 22, 2019 11:34The number of asylum seekers from Saudi Arabia has tripled, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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Iran vice presidency for women's affairs slams Press TV anchor's detention
Jan 20, 2019 11:23Iran's Vice Presidency for Women and Family Affairs has denounced the detention of Press TV news anchor Marzieh Hashemi, who has been taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as material witness in an unspecified case.
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PM Modi faces ouster amid rural anger, Muslim discontent
Jan 20, 2019 09:07Hundreds of thousands of people have joined a massive demonstration in India to rally support for the ouster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the upcoming general elections.
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Former UN rights chief Mary Robinson pulls out of Dubai festival over jailed activist
Jan 15, 2019 08:41The former United Nations human rights commissioner, Mary Robinson, has boycotted the Arab world's biggest literary festival in Dubai, responding to an open letter by a group of prominent figures calling for the unconditional release of an Emirati activist.
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Annual migrant deaths in Mediterranean fall by over a quarter: UNHCR
Jan 04, 2019 02:48The UN refugee agency says the number of migrants who died or went missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean fell by more than a quarter in 2018 over the previous year, to 2,262.
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Yellow Vest rallies spread to Canadian cities
Dec 16, 2018 11:19Protesters wearing yellow vests, inspired by the rallies that have been taking place in France over one month, took the streets in various cities across Canada on Saturday.
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Video contradicts Israel’s claim on disabled Palestinian’s killing
Dec 11, 2018 12:26A recently released video footage has showed Israeli forces shooting a disabled Palestinian man in the back, despite the usurper regime’s claim that he was killed during clashes in the occupied West Bank.