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![Many protesters were carrying banners that read 'Justice for Martyrs', while others held photographs of demonstrators killed in the raid [Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/middleeastaffairs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/3bebf2a986c74801a0d2e8da6aa67c4d_18.jpg?resize=350%2C250&ssl=1)
Turkey says EU decisions will not affect its energy activities off Cyprus
Istanbul-European Union decisions to curb contacts and funding for Turkey over its drilling for gas and oil off Cyprus will...
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![A nurse attends to a cholera-infected patient at treatment centre in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen on October 8, 2017 [File: Reuters/Abduljabbar Zeyad]](https://i1.wp.com/middleeastaffairs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2c896a9227564a9db4bcd6ef99b8c2c5_18.jpg?resize=350%2C250&ssl=1)
Three days in a Yemeni cholera camp
On April 18, I was sitting on a small chair next to bed number seven at the end of a...
Controversy over Lebanese town’s non-Christian ban highlights segregation
The exposure of a non-Christian housing ban in the Lebanese municipality of Hadat last week caused controversy over Lebanon’s religious...
![Palestinians walk past a pool of sewage on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip July 13, 2018 [File:Mohammed Salem/Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/middleeastaffairs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/953b56e3db6844ccaa071f3abcbb8961_18.jpg?resize=350%2C250&ssl=1)
Israel’s ‘environmental crisis’ is of its own making
Gaza's growing humanitarian crisis is finally registering in Israel as a pressing problem requiring "clear and immediate" action. However, it...
Investment opportunities in the Saudi railway system
A few weeks ago, I had my first experience using the Saudi railway system between Riyadh and Dammam. When I...
Can a Corbyn-Sturgeon alliance save Brexit Britain from itself?
At the start of June, when he was still in the running to replace Theresa May as prime minister of...
![Tensions have been rising in the Middle East since the US deployed more forces to counter Iranian threats [Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters]](https://i1.wp.com/middleeastaffairs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/eed9b2cf09e141ae9a813b148e6843ce_18.jpg?resize=360%2C180&ssl=1)
![Fayyad Abu Rmeleh shows the cracks and deformations that have formed in his home from Israeli excavations [Dareen Jubeh/Al Jazeera]](https://i2.wp.com/middleeastaffairs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/78496513564d400db139a611d2a6b739_18.jpg?resize=360%2C180&ssl=1)
Khamenei warns that UK’s seizure of Iran oil tanker won’t be ‘left unanswered’
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned on Tuesday that the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker on July 4 in...
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Iran’s Zarif not allowed to move beyond a six-block radius in New York
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif is not allowed beyond a six-block radius during his visit to New York City,...
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Sudan military council: Legal committee submitted draft constitution
Sudan’s Transitional Military Council says the legal committee submitted a draft constitution to both sides for consideration. - Developing
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At least five dead in Baghdad suicide blasts: medics, security
At least five people were killed in twin suicide blasts near a Shiite mosque in southwest Baghdad on Monday, Iraqi...
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![File: A new S-400 'Triumph' surface-to-air missile system seen near Kaliningrad, Russia [File:Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/middleeastaffairs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/aacaa4331215459fbef01bdb968c6def_18.jpg?resize=120%2C86&ssl=1)
![A nurse attends to a cholera-infected patient at treatment centre in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen on October 8, 2017 [File: Reuters/Abduljabbar Zeyad]](https://i1.wp.com/middleeastaffairs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2c896a9227564a9db4bcd6ef99b8c2c5_18.jpg?resize=120%2C86&ssl=1)
![Palestinians walk past a pool of sewage on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip July 13, 2018 [File:Mohammed Salem/Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/middleeastaffairs.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/953b56e3db6844ccaa071f3abcbb8961_18.jpg?resize=120%2C86&ssl=1)
