Major General Mohammad Bagheri says Thursday’s seizure near Gibraltar was based on ‘fabricated excuses’ The UK’s decision to seize an Iranian oil tanker on the coast of Gibraltar will not go “unanswered” warned one of [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have said they will take legal action after an auction house in London sold a 3,000-year-old statue believed to depict the famed Pharaoh Tutankhamen. London-based auction house Christie’s sold a rare “brown quartzite [ More … ]
Emirati official says move part of transition from military to ‘peace-first’ strategy and Saudi Arabia was consulted!! The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced it will reduce its troop presence throughout war-torn Yemen, moving from a “military-first” [ More … ]
Tehran ramps up nuclear efforts as US warns the Islamic Republic will never be allowed to build an atomic weapon. Iran warned world powers they will not be able to negotiate a better deal than [ More … ]
Egyptians are usually very loyal to the national team but this time, backlash focused on the team and Sisi
One day after a judge had ordered the release of Ola al-Qaradawi, daughter of a well-known Islamic scholar, authorities rearrested her Egyptian authorities should have released Ola al-Qaradawi, daughter Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, a well-known Islamic [ More … ]
Egypt suffered a defeat against South Africa round of 16 after a late goal, kicking Egypt out of the tournament. Thembinkosi Lorch scored the decisive goal five minutes from time in the second half, finishing [ More … ]
Algerian opposition groups and protesters have demanded elections take place by the end of the year, after the interim president pushed for dialogue talks. Algerian civil society and opposition party activists met and proposed “free and pluralistic” elections [ More … ]
Members of Al-Sisi’s own regime have joined Egypt’s opposition and the president is afraid, Director of the Egypt-based Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Bahey eldin Hassan has told an audience in London. This has [ More … ]
Sudan Two sides agree to establish ‘a sovereign council’ to be run on rotation, an AU mediator announces. Sudan‘s ruling generals and a coalition of protest and opposition groups have reached an agreement to share power [ More … ]
Israel has been rocked by widespread demonstrations decrying the fatal shooting of an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager at the hands of an off-duty police officer. Protests erupted after Solomon Teka, 18, who was unarmed, was shot by [ More … ]
Daughter of prominent imam Yousef Qaradawi was ready to go home after court ordered her release, but that hope was short-lived According to MEE , Egyptian prosecutors have levelled new charges against Ola al-Qaradawi, effectively [ More … ]
An air strike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 130, the United Nations [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities are attempting to normalize human rights violations by passing a series of laws to “legalize” their escalating crackdown on freedom of expression, association and assembly, said Amnesty International, six years since recently [ More … ]
The Egyptian government’s widespread violence toward the Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition parties is strengthening them. Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi fainted and died during an appearance in a Cairo court last month, part of [ More … ]
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