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Mideast: Phone call between Abbas & Trump hypes hopes in Palestine

The Palestinian authority has expressed hope for a possible end of conflict with Israel after leader Mahmoud Abbas held a phone talk with US President Donald Trump on Monday. The first phone call between the two leaders since Trump’s election has hyped hopes and willingness from the Palestinian side to work with US and pro-Israel […]

Israel: Iran and the Nazis are the same, PM Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked Iran by saying that they have similar objectives as compared to the Nazis during the annual ceremony marking the Holocaust Remembrance Day. His claims were made based on the Iranian nuclear program and Tehran’s stance towards the Jewish state. According to Netanyahu, “the Nazis strived to trample civilization and […]

Tunisian Prisons are Overpopulated, Justice Minister

Tunisian Justice Minister Monday sounded the alarm over the “catastrophic” conditions of inmates in the country’s prisons. “Detention centers in Tunisia are extremely overpopulated,” Ghazi Jeribi told a parliament committee on Monday. Over 20,000 people have been locked up in the country’s few prisons, exceeding the capacities of these centers. The overpopulation has been estimated […]