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Turkey FM In Doha As UN ‘alarmed’ By Gulf Crisis

The search for a diplomatic solution to the Gulf crisis intensified Wednesday as Turkey's foreign minister landed in...

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Israeli and International Groups Warn of Looming Gaza Disaster

Israeli and international NGOS joined the UN on Wednesday in warning of a "total collapse" in Gaza if Israel goes ahead...

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Israeli and International Groups Warn of Looming Gaza Disaster

Israeli and international NGOS joined the UN on Wednesday in warning of a "total collapse" in Gaza if Israel goes ahead...

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Rights Group Slams ‘absurd’ Ramadan Penalty In Tunisia

Rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday dismissed as "absurd" the jailing in Tunisia of people who fail to...

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NGO Petitions General Legal Council

The Centre for Victims of Injustice (CenVI) has petitioned the General Legal Council (GLC) to withdraw the three-year...

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Turkey’s Imprisonment of Amnesty Chair A Devastating Injustice

The Turkish prosecution’s decision to charge Taner Kiliç, the Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, with...

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Families Split As Gulf Crisis Becomes Humanitarian Issue

Rashed al-Jalahma, 22, has lived almost his whole life in Qatar, but he now faces the decision of whether to stay or...

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Qatar Ready To Heal Gulf Rift

Kuwaiti FM says Qatar is willing to hold dialogue with Arab states that have cut diplomatic ties with Doha. Kuwait on...

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Qatar Says Gulf Citizens Can Stay Despite Crisis

Qatar moved Sunday to avoid an escalation of its feud with Gulf neighbours by telling their citizens they are welcome...

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Qatar Tells Gulf Residents They Are Free To Stay

Qatar has said citizens of states that have cut ties with the emirate will be allowed to stay in the country despite...

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Amnesty Bemoans Cost of Gulf Crisis On Human Rights

Amnesty International warned Saturday of the "heartbreak and fear" being suffered by potentially thousands of ordinary...

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Weapons Choice In Anti-IS War Endangers Civilians

The choice of weapons by the Iraqi security forces and its allies from the US-led coalition is endangering the lives of...

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Activists Who Probed Ivanka Trump Supplier Risk Jail

Activists detained while investigating working conditions at a Chinese factory making Ivanka Trump-branded shoes could...

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Qatar Says Saudi-Led Move To Bar Citizens Breach of Rights

A Qatari official has said an ultimatum issued by Saudi Arabia and its allies for the emirate's citizens to leave is a...

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Turkey Amnesty Head Arrested Over Alleged Gulen Links

The head of Amnesty International in Turkey was arrested Tuesday over suspected links to the movement of cleric...

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UN Threatens DR Congo With International Probe

The UN rights chief on Tuesday gave Kinshasa a two-day deadline to show it is seriously investigating violence in the...

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14 Protesters Face Execution In Saudi

Saudi Arabia plans to execute 14 citizens, all Shiites, after a "grossly unfair trial" linked to political protests,...

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How the NDC Founders Introduced Mob Action and Vigilantism

The contending schools of thought hold an opinion that it was the founders of the NDC Party who created boisterous...

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US Urges UN To Investigate DRCongo Murders

The United States on Monday urged the United Nations to establish a special investigation into the murder of two UN...