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Wife of Palestinian hunger striker wants pope to intervene

The wife of the leader of a hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has written to Pope Francis calling on him to intervene "before it is too late". Fadwa Barghouti, wife of Palestinian leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, has called on the pope to...

Turkey says US arming Kurdish Syria fighters 'unacceptable'

Turkey Wednesday slammed as "unacceptable" a U.S. announcement that Washington would supply arms and military equipment to Kurdish fighters battling ISIS extremists in Syria. "The supply of arms to the YPG is unacceptable," Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli told A Haber television....

Iran election's theatrics, frank discourse push boundaries

From a former president disobeying the supreme leader to open discussion of a 1980s mass execution, Iran's presidential election is pushing the boundaries of what can be discussed in public and done online, a small but noticeable shift in the country's clerically overseen polls. The push...

34 dead, 2,000 sick with suspected cholera in Yemen

Thirty-four people have died of cholera-related causes and more than 2,000 have been taken ill in less than two weeks in Yemen, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. "There have been 34 cholera-associated deaths and 2,022 cases of acute watery diarrhea in nine governorates, including...