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UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said Tuesday the next round of negotiations to end the deadly conflict in the Arab country will kick off on March 9.

He changed an earlier decision based on which the talks were set to resume on March 7.

“We are delaying it to the afternoon of the 9th for logistical and technical reasons and also for the ceasefire to better settle down,” de Mistura said, adding that the meeting would not be delayed further.

He had said earlier that the talks could be postponed based on the situation on the ground. “We don’t want discussions in Geneva to become a discussion about infringements or not of the ceasefire, we want them to actually address the core of everything.”
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Published time: 2 Mar, 2016 01:29

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Germany, the ultimate destination for most refugees, may soon start turning them away at its borders, if the number of entries does not drop. The Interior Minister had reportedly sent a strong message to the EU that the “time of waving the issue through is over.”

While chancellor Angela Merkel maintains she wants to keep Europe’s borders open, plans leaked to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper suggest that her own government is drawing up far more radical measures.
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Published time: 1 Mar, 2016 20:59

Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) party leader Frank Franz (R) and the party’s lawyer Peter Richter answer reporters questions on arrival for the start of a trial at the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Germany, March 1, 2016. © Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

Germany’s top court is contemplating banning the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) party after a request was made by the federal upper house which said that the party threatened democracy. It is the first case of its kind in 60 years.

The hearings began on Tuesday in the Federal Constitutional Court in the western German city of Karlsruhe and is set to continue until Thursday.

The constitutional court chief justice started off by saying that there remained many obstacles in the way of the prohibition of any political party.

A party prohibition “is a sharp and double-edged sword that must be used with great caution,” Andreas Vosskuhle said, adding that “it limits freedom in order to preserve freedom.”

To ban the party, Germany’s 16 states which represent the federal upper house, have to prove to the the court that NPD poses a threat to the democratic order. Those standing in favor of the ban have to convince that the party is igniting a “climate of fear” in Germany and “shares essential characteristics” with the Nazis.
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Published time: 1 Mar, 2016 17:40

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad © Sana / Reuters

Syrian government forces held back from conducting retaliation strikes against those violating the truce in order to give the agreement “a chance to survive,” President Bashar Assad said in a recent interview.

“We will do our part so that the whole thing works,” President Assad told German broadcaster ARD, referring to the truce drawn up by Russia and the United States that came into force on Saturday.

He also added that the Syrian Army “has refrained from retaliating in order to give [a] chance for the agreement to survive.”

“The terrorists have breached the deal from the first day. We as the Syrian Army are refraining from responding in order to give a chance to sustain the agreement and that is what we can do,” he said.

At the same time, Assad stressed that “at the end everything has a limit” and pointed out that the maintenance of the ceasefire now “depends on the other side.”
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Published time: 1 Mar, 2016 10:44

Stranded refugees and migrants try to bring down part of the border fence during a protest at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni, February 29, 2016. © Alexandros Avramidis / Reuters

The Balkan refugee route may soon be closed, if Austria reaches its limit of 37,500 asylum seekers entries in 2016, Macedonia’s president said, adding that “in times of crisis, every country must find its own solutions.”

“We need a political decision now. Soon it will be too late… The Austrian ceiling of 37,000 will be reached,” Gjorge Ivanov told Spiegel Online in an interview.

Asked when exactly the refugee route may be shut down, the president replied that “perhaps right at this moment.”

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov © David W Cerny / Reuters

“We can’t wait until Brussels makes a decision. We have made our own decisions. In times of crisis, every country must find its own solutions,” he said.
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Analysis: Is the coolness which characterized the relationship between Israel and Egypt over the past several decades warming? And what exactly is behind this change of pace in cooperation?

Over the course of the past year, there have been more and more indications of the warming of diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel: an official public visit by Dore Gold, the director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, who came to Cairo to re-inaugurate the Israeli embassy in the country; the release of Odeh Tarabin, an Israeli Arab who was convicted of spying for Israel and was in Egyptian prison for over 15 years; the appointment of a new Egyptian Ambassador to Israel after a three year absence, and even a public meeting between the Egyptian ambassador and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week.
Although the Egyptians have been busy over the past few years with internal issues, principally dealing with the security and economic situation, their relations with Israel have been in the headlines as of late.
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Reform Jewish leaders in the US are concerned that Israel is losing support in the community after government ministers sharply criticize the movement at Jerusalem meeting.

A recent gathering of American Reform rabbis in Jerusalem was meant to celebrate the small gains the liberal Jewish movement has made in Israel in recent years. But a series of comments by Israeli officials denigrating the group marred the event, reflecting an awkward relationship that many fear is alienating the world’s second-largest Jewish community from Israel.
The Reform Movement is the largest stream of Judaism in the United States, claiming to represent 1.5 million people, and its members provide a key source of financial support and political advocacy for Israel. But the movement is marginal in Israel, where religious affairs are dominated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment. Israeli lawmakers, both secular and ultra-Orthodox, have repeatedly disparaged the group, questioning their Judaism and accusing them of promoting Jewish assimilation.
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