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Neighborhood raises $310,000 for paralysed mosque attack survivor

Montreal, Canada – A survivor of last year’s deadly shooting at a Canadian mosque who has been hailed as « a hero » has been given $310,000 ($400,000 Canadian) in donations to rebuild his life. Aymen Derbali received the sizeable sum – collected via online donations from people in Quebec, Canada and around the world – during…

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Malala returns to Pakistan home city for first time since attack

Islamabad – Malala Yousafzai, the 20-year-old Pakistani education rights icon, has returned home to her native Swat Valley for the first time since being shot by the Taliban there more than five years ago. Yousafzai flew from the capital Islamabad to Mingora, the main town in Swat, by helicopter on Saturday morning. She briefly met…

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Why did the Houthis assault Riyadh?

A decision by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to fire seven missiles into Saudi Arabia was ostensibly a response to its northern neighbour’s three years of air strikes, the armed group told Al Jazeera. Striking deeper then ever before, the Houthis fired four missiles at air and military bases in the southern Saudi cities of Abha, Jizan…

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Mahmoud Abbas blames Hamas for Gaza attack on PM’s convoy

President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has accused Hamas of orchestrating the explosion that targeted the convoy of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah as he entered the Gaza Strip last week.  « We do not want them to investigate, we do not want information from them, we do not want anything from them because we know…

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1000’s rally in opposition to Czech president’s attack on media

Prague, Czech Republic – Thousands of Czechs have taken to the streets of the capital, Prague, in defiance of a recent attack on local independent media by the country’s recently re-elected President Milos Zeman. Speaking during his inauguration last week at Prague Castle, the pro-Russian, anti-migrant Zeman criticised the Czech media by name, accusing them…

France threatens to acknowledge if Syria chemical assault proven staunch 0

France threatens to acknowledge if Syria chemical assault proven staunch

WARNING: The above report contains images some may find distressing. France has said it would introduce « intervention measures » if claims of a Syrian government chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta late on Wednesday proved to be true.  « If the use of chemical weapons was found, verified, attributed and the use of the chemical weapon left people…

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US condemns Syria’s ‘contempt’ for UN as Ghouta assault continues

The United States has accused Russia and the Syrian government of violating the Eastern Ghouta ceasefire at a United Nations Security Council meeting. The 30-day ceasefire, enshrined in Resolution 2401, was voted for unanimously by members of the Security Council on Saturday. It came on the back of an offensive launched by the Bashar al-Assad’s…

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Untying the knot of the Israeli assault on Syria

Recent developments in Syria remind us how convoluted the country’s multi party conflict is. The Syrian regime used a Russian made S-200 anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down an American made F-16I retaliating to the intrusion of an Iranian made unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Most importantly, however, these developments gave Israel a reality check that it has no…

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Of their phrases: African victims of a ways-devoted gun attack

Thousands of Italians have marched against fascism in Marcerata, a sleepy central Italian city where a far-right gunman recently opened fire on a group of African refugees. Protesters on Saturday warned against a revival of fascist sentiment during the campaign for the March 4 national election. A week earlier on January 3, police caught 28-year-old…