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Israeli forces fire grenade at couple holding baby

Footage released by an Israeli rights group showed Israeli soldiers firing a stun grenade at a Palestinian couple carrying a baby. The incident took place in the West Bank village of Burin near Nablus on Friday, according to Yesh Din organization on Saturday. Yesh Din said...

Israeli troops kill Palestinian near Gaza border

GAZA: Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that a "suspect had approached a restricted area in the southern Gaza Strip." Soldiers then "fired...

Egypt detains 2 journalists reporting on historic tramway

Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the detention of two journalists for 15 days pending an investigation after their arrest while preparing a report on the historic Alexandria tramway. Defense attorney Mohammed Hafez said Friday's decision regarding free-lance journalists May al-Sabbagh and...

Turkish female-only news site fights 'terror' ban

 A news website in the Kurdish-majority Turkish city of Diyarbakir, staffed only by women, has been repeatedly shut down by the authorities over alleged terror propaganda but it is refusing to give up the fight to publish. Jin News Agency, from the Kurdish word for woman "Jin,"...