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Assad activists attempt to disrupt Palestine solidarity conference

Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attempted to disrupt a Palestinian solidarity conference in Tunisia on Thursday, the event's organisers have said. Assad activists stormed the room raising Syrian and Palestinian flags as they chanted "resistance, resistance, no to normalisation"....

Israel boycott in the spotlight as Tunisia conference opens

A leading Arab think-tank has hit back at what it has called "far-fetched assumptions" in the British media over its organising of a conference studying the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies has rejected insinuations...

Thousands of Yazidis missing, captive, two years after start of 'genocide' - U.N.

Thousands of Yazidis are being held captive by Islamic State in Syria where many are used for sexual slavery or forced to fight for the group, the United Nations said on Wednesday, on the second anniversary of what investigators termed a genocide. A U.N.-appointed commission of...

Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian chemist Zewail dies

Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died on Tuesday in the United States, his spokesman told Egyptian state TV. Zewail, who was 70 and a member of the...