Middle East and North Africa
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Amnesty International says hangings carried out in ‘secrecy without transparency’ are a ‘big step backwards’
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Parents are withdrawing students from Khartoum’s University of Medical Sciences and Technology
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Islamist Benghazi defence militia hits Libya’s biggest oil port and biggest refinery in sharp escalation of civil war
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If you look out of the windows of the Walled Off hotel in Bethlehem you will see the wall that separates the West Bank from Israel
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Iranian and Russian forces help push extremists out of historic city, which has been badly damaged during occupation
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Letters: Calling Jews or the Jewish state the successor to the Nazis is not criticism, it is hate speech
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Gay Syrians have suffered horrific persecution under Isis. But a new documentary by Turkish director Ayşe Toprak about a beauty contest, Mr Gay Syria, hopes to follow Moonlight in changing perceptions
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Former Egyptian president cleared of involvement in death of protesters during 2011 uprising that ended his reign
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The magazine will launch as a website first, with Saudi princess Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz as editor-in-chief
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Inquiry details ‘war crimes’ by pro-Assad forces and rebel groups in Aleppo – including use of chemical weapons
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Ahmad Sami Kheder, from south London, and Hisham Fadlallah, from Nottinghamshire, abandoned medical degrees in Sudan to join Isis in Syria
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Undercover videos show EU cattle and sheep being beaten, given electric shocks and inhumanely slaughtered at destinations in Turkey and Middle East
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France, UK and US wanted sanctions over chemical weapon use – but Vladimir Putin rejects ‘totally inappropriate’ proposal
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