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Bassil wants Syrian refugees out of Lebanon

1 month ago
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil urged Friday for a dignified return of the Syrian refugees to their homeland. Lebanon has one of the world’s highest numbers of refugees per capita and currently hosts over 1 million Syrians who fled the decade-old conflict. Officials say the influx has cost Lebanon billions of dollars and further […]
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Swedish FM headed for talks with Israelis, Palestinians

10 months ago
Sweden's foreign minister will make the first official visit to Israel in a decade, the government said Sunday, following seven years of rocky ties after Stockholm recognized Palestine. "Foreign Minister Ann Linde will visit Israel and Palestine on October 18 and 19," the government said in a press release. Since its recognition of the "State […]
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Dr. Csicsery-Ronay Istvan on The Golden Mean between Local and Global SF

1 year ago
Emad El-Din Aysha: Dear Dr. Csicsery-Ronay Istvan. First please let me apologise for saying doctor. In Arabic countries we take such honorifics very seriously, even when speaking English. Secondly, please tell us something about yourself. Where you teach, your background? What drew you to science fiction and specifically non-Anglophone SF? Csicsery-Ronay Istvan: I am now […]
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Israel defines US on Golan as UN expert supports ICC West Bank ruling

2 years ago
Israel will keep the Golan Heights forever, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced remarks that stopped short of recognizing the claim. In 2019, then-US President Donald Trump parted with other world powers by recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli. Israel occupied the strategic plateau in a […]
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A law Allowing Hungarian Govt To Use Army In Asylum Seeker Crisis

7 years ago
The Levant News -- The Hungarian parliament has passed a law authorizing the government to deploy the military to help handle the asylum seeker crisis in the country, which includes powers to use non-lethal force. According to the law, the army would be allowed to use rubber bullets, pyrotechnical devices, tear gas grenades or net […]
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Croatia 'Forcing' Hungary To Take In Migrants

7 years ago
The Levant – – More than 20,000 migrants, have streamed into Croatia since Hungary on Tuesday barred their route to the European Union through its southern border with Serbia with a metal fence, tear gas and water cannon. Croatia said on Saturday it had “forced” Hungary to take in thousands of migrants and would continue sending […]
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Hungarian riot control police showing no mercy for Migrants

7 years ago
The Levant News -- While trying to figure out new ways to enter Hungary on Tuesday, migrants faced a beat down as Hungary riot control police caged 29 people along with a terrorist and lobed tear gas shells and water cannons on the migrants. The clashes between migrants and police started soon after Hungary shut […]
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Route to Hungary is closed, Migrants left distressed

7 years ago
The Levant News -- The war devastated migrants were left stranded by Hungary as they closed their main root. Now the migrants are making a new way via cornfields into European Union by crossing Serbia's western border. Croatia said it was urgently sending demining experts to the border area to identify minefields left on the […]
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