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South East Asia
Two Koreas hold working-level dialogue this afternoon
North and South Korea kicked off a working-level meeting on Thursday afternoon to decide details of a high-level talks that the two countries agreed in August to hold as soon as possible, Yonhap news agency reported Thursday. The preparatory meeting took place on the North’s side of the truce village…
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West Asia
Khamenei: Iran to defend Palestinians ‘in every possible way’
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Iran would support the Palestinian uprising against Israel “in any way we can”. He also rejected US accusations that a recent wave of Palestinian knife and car-ramming attacks amounted to “terrorism”. A day earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry,…
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West Asia
Turkey shoots down a Russian jet near its borders
A Russian Su-24, an all-weather attack aircraft, was shot down by two Turkish F-16 in the Turkey-Syria border, as governmental resources say that the aircraft breached the Turkish airspace while Russia denies. The plane crashed in the mountainous Jabal Turkmen area of the coastal Syrian province of Latakia, which is…
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West Asia
Egypt border guards shoot Sudanese migrants
Egyptian border forces have shot dead five Sudanese migrants trying to cross from Egypt’s North Sinai region into Israel on 24th November, the Egyptian military said in a statement. “Law enforcement tasked with protecting the border spotted at dawn today a group of Africans trying to sneak though the international…
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West Asia
The War against Expats in the Arab Gulf States
It needs you a few minutes to search the headlines to realize the active war of the Arab Gulf States authorities against expatriates who live and work there, as many procedures have been taken into effect regarding the current and future expats. Kuwait is considering to stop all access to…
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Politics
Former President Kim Young-sam dies at age 88
On Sunday 22 November, Former South Korean president Kim Young Sam, died at the age of 88. Kim, who had been hospitalized with a fever and breathing problems since Thursday, died at 12:21 a.m., according to Seoul National University Hospital. He had ended decades of military rule in South Korea and accepted…
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Politics
UK PM to outline Syria plan
David Cameron is to set out his plan for tackling the crisis in Syria within days, in a bid to win support for air strikes against Islamic State fighters. It comes after a Foreign Affairs Committee report said the UK should not join allied bombing in Syria without a coherent…
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West Asia
Australians among other nationals arrested in Kuwait for supplying ISIS
Two Australians are part of a group arrested in Kuwait, accused of being members of an extremist network that supplied funds and weapons, including rockets, to Islamic State militants, the state news agency Kuna quoted the interior ministry as saying on Thursday 19th November. The group also included a Lebanese,…
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Politics
France asks US, Russia to join forces against IS
French President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia to join forces to destroy the Islamic State group (or Daesh) in the wake of Friday’s attacks across Paris. In a grave speech to the parliament, Hollande said he would increase funds for national security, strengthen anti-terror laws and…
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West Asia
ISIS between conspiracy and media coverage
Now, in 2015 ISIS have managed to spread outside their territory of Iraq and Syria and the Middle East, terrorizing and attacking other countries in other continents, and between conspiracy theories and the difference in reporting their activities in Western and Middle Eastern news outlets, the image of ISIS…
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