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BRUSSELS - To stop the violence against women: this is the priority issue to be dealt with in all countries on the southern shores of the Mediterranean, according to what has emerged from analysis carried out by the EuroMed Gender Equality Programme (EGEP), which has focused on the condition of women of the area in a roundtable organised in Brussels.

ANKARA - Yet another case of domestic violence in Turkey. A man, sentenced to three months in prison for beating his six-month pregnant wife because she was expecting a fifth daughter, has cut off her nose and ears, shortly after being released, to punish her for reporting him.

DUBAI – (Reuters) – A British pair caught kissing in public in Dubai face up to a month in jail in the Gulf Arab emirate for indecency after an Emirati mother complained her child had seen their indiscretion.

Jerusalem-Dozens of Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in East Jerusalem on Tuesday on a "day of rage" Hamas declared to protest Israel's consecration of an ancient synagogue in the city one day earlier.
Palestinians hurled stones at police and burned tires and trash bins in several areas of East Jerusalem, which Israel captured along with the West Bank during the 1967 Six-Day War.

JERUSALEM - The Israeli police and the emergency services have announced a high alert today in Jerusalem after the decision by Islamic organisations to launch a 'Day of Rage' today against Jewish settlement plans in East Jerusalem.

ANKARA - From now on, Turkish women who go abroad to get pregnant by artificial insemination will be liable to three and a half years in prison.