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Saudi prince's pan-Arab TV channel 'dead'

 A Saudi billionaire's pan-Arab TV news channel was declared "dead" on Tuesday, ending a two-year search for a new home after it was shut down by the Bahraini authorities. Bahrain pulled the plug on the Alarab News Channel in February 2015 after it aired an interview with a Shiite...

Israel court orders removal of part of settlement outpost

The Israeli High Court on Tuesday ordered the removal of parts of a Jewish settlement outpost that were built on private Palestinian land, hours after parliament passed a law legalizing similar cases. The court ruled that 17 caravans in the Tapuah West outpost in the northern West Bank were...

Turkish opposition leader backs Yes vote in referendum

The leader of Turkey’s opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has voiced support for constitutional reforms in the upcoming referendum in April. Speaking during his party’s parliamentary group meeting in Ankara on Tuesday, Devlet Bahceli said: “Yes for nation, yes for the state,...

Jordan ponders a change of course on Syria

(The National)- On December 31, 2016, in an interview with the BBC, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Freihat, Jordan’s chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, spoke about Jordan’s neighbours, ISIL’s presence in southern Syria and its threat to Jordanian national security, as well as the group’s...