Former Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril died on Sunday in Cairo, Egypt after contracting COVID-19, his National Forces Alliance (NFA) announced in a statement Sunday He is the first major Arab politician to die of [ More … ]
Meanwhile, 93 new cases were confirmed, raising the tally to 191 in the country, said Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca in a tweet. President Erdogan says such outbreaks have had severe consequences around the world [ More … ]
State television says the prime minister is safe after a blast in the capital, Khartoum. Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt Monday after a blast went off near his convoy in the capital, Khartoum. [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has detained two senior members of the royal family – Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and Mohammed bin Nayef, the king’s nephew – according to reports citing sources with knowledge of [ More … ]
According to Aljazeera news: Qatar bans travelers from Egypt over coronavirus fears Authorities in Qatar have temporarily banned all arrivals from Egypt, except Qatari citizens, over fears of the spread of deadly coronavirus. “As a public [ More … ]
It is a religious obligation to vote amid concerns of low participation, Iranian leaders say. Iranians voted in their country’s 11th parliamentary election, seen as a test for the popularity of President Hassan Rouhani‘s reformist-moderate camp as [ More … ]
According to Daily News Egypt, Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) recorded the fastest accumulation of external debt stocks, on average 7%, propelled by the 15% rise in Egypt, the region’s biggest [ More … ]
North African nation may be heading for new parliamentary elections over its inability to form a government. Tunisia‘s Ennahdha party has rejected a new government proposal that excludes other parties and is open to contest another [ More … ]
Rescuers desperately attempt to find survivors in eastern Turkey in the rubble of collapsed buildings. Search-and-rescue efforts continued on Sunday after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing 38 people and injuring more than 1,600 others. Nearly 4,000 [ More … ]
The friends and family of prisoners in Egypt have launched a social media campaign to raise awareness of the dire conditions inside Egypt’s prisons, according to MEMO Under a number of hashtags including the Arabic for [ More … ]
The former culture minister has been named as successor to late Sultan Qaboos. Oman’s Sultan Qaboos dies aged 79: State media. The monarch had ruled the sultanate since 1970 and transformed it into a modern [ More … ]
Iran fires more than a dozen rockets at Iraq’s Ain al-Asad military base and targets Erbil facility. Iran has launched a series of missile attacks on US facilities in Iraq, days after the United States assassinated top Iranian [ More … ]
Iran’s Qassem Soleimani killed in US air raid at Baghdad airport Pre-dawn raid also killed Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a major escalation of regional tensions. Khamenei warns of harsh revenge Iran’s Supreme [ More … ]
Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s comments come a month after the Libya-Turkey deal that seeks to create an exclusive economic zone. Greece‘s prime minister said in remarks published on Sunday that if Athens and Ankara cannot solve their [ More … ]
The US and Europe raise concerns about the escalation in Libya after reports of Russian mercenaries on the ground! Turkey’s parliament on Saturday approved a security and military cooperation deal signed with Libya’s internationally recognised [ More … ]
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