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...Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesperson for the health ministry in Gaza, said more than 30 people had been killed. The IDF did not immediately comment....
...Mahmoud Ahmed, a German citizen who was authorised to leave, had been visiting his sick mother in Gaza when the war erupted and was forced to move from the north to the south of the enclave....
...The Gaza Strip — often likened to an open-air prison by human rights groups — has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since 2007, when Hamas expelled Fatah, the political faction headed by Mahmoud Abbas,...
...Contact and conflict in the fractured West Bank Two Sundays ago, Ashraf Na’alwa, a Palestinian electrician in his early twenties, walked into an Israeli-owned and operated factory....
...“It’s an act of daylight robbery — they are stealing the land, stealing our resources, and now stealing our money,” Ashraf Khatib, an adviser to the Palestine Liberation Organisation....
...staked his political reputation on ending crippling international sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme and turning around the ailing economy after years of mismanagement by the previous government of Mahmoud...
...Shah Mahmoud, Helmand provincial spokesman, calls the situation in Sangin “very normal” and says that “everything is under the control of the Afghan security forces”....
...minister without portfolio in charge of matters relating to Israeli settlements and the separation wall, and a senior member of the ruling Fatah movement, was given a state funeral on Thursday at President Mahmoud...
...He met both of the candidates, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, in an effort to organise an audit of the votes that can satisfy their concerns....
...Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president, has said in recent days that he is seeking an ‘unconventional solution’ to the conflict with Israel....
...Mahmoud Saikal, adviser to the Abdullah campaign, welcomed Mr Amarkhail’s resignation as a “step in the right direction” and said his candidate might now talk to the Independent Electoral Commission for...
...Additional reporting by Amina Ashraf in Cairo, Mary Fitzgerald in Tripoli and Geoff Dyer in Washington...
...textile factories have closed in recent months in Shubra el Kheima, an industrial district of Cairo, and several hundred have closed in Mahala, a textile manufacturing centre in the Nile Delta, according to Mahmoud...
...The decision by the state department comes days ahead of the visit of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the Iranian president, to the US for the UN General Assembly meeting next week....
...President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said on Friday that the film highlighted the west’s double standards....
...Additional reporting by Amina Ashraf in Cairo...
...Deputy parliamentary speaker Ashraf Thabet had said a day earlier that parliament would try to convene on Tuesday....
...This idea resonates particularly among pro-Israel politicians desperate to see an end to the Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, and many advocates have seized on the group’s head, Maryam...
...; and Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq, its chief in Saudi Arabia....
...“Today if you tried to sue someone from the Zahar family [Mahmoud Zahar is a senior Hamas leader], you would never even get a date in court.”...
...Back in Cairo, Ashraf al-Loughi, a 43-year-old carpenter, describes Mr Ahmadi-Nejad as a “decent, moderate, man who didn’t want any problems”. “He released the British sailors....
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