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Eyewitness says Israeli army lying, judge did not try to seize soldier’s gun

The Jordanian judge who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Monday on the King Hussein Bridge crossing did not try to seize the gun of a soldier as Israelis claim, an eyewitness at the scene said Tuesday.

Spurning Arab Gulf pressure, Qatar says foreign policy ‘non-negotiable’

Qatar on Monday again dismissed demands by three fellow Gulf Arab states for changes to its foreign policy, calling its independence “non-negotiable” in a further sign that it will continue to aid Islamists such as Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
Syria Islamists free nuns in rare prisoner swap

A group of nuns kidnapped by Islamist rebels in Syria were freed on Monday in a rare prisoner swap in a three-year war whose brutality was highlighted in a new Amnesty International report.