The European Union is ready to impose stricter sanctions on high-level Syrian regime officials and scientists who were involved in using chemical weapons against civilians, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency [ More … ]
More than six weeks after Saudi Arabia reported its first case, the COVID-19 is striking terror into the heart of the kingdom’s sprawling ruling family. According to The NYT, As many as 150 royals inside [ More … ]
Egypt will ban any public religious gatherings during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan starting in around two weeks “to counter the spread of the new coronavirus”, a government statement said on Tuesday. Muslims [ More … ]
Iranian foreign ministry says the sanctions, which are part of Washington’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign, are impeding Tehran’s fight against Covid-19 Iran’s foreign ministry has urged the international community to ignore US sanctions and help the [ More … ]
Egyptian government orders return of 4 million people to work amid COVID-19 outbreak!! Despite the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic all over Egypt, the Egyptian Ministry of Housing has announced the return of 4 million workers, [ More … ]
Raouf Ghabbour, CEO of GB Ghabbour Group, says in a TV statement that the continuation of the coronavirus crisis for another month will lead to the severe suffering of several economic sectors. Ghabbour said in [ More … ]
A number of detained Egyptian doctors sent a leaked message to the chairman of Medical Professions Syndicates Union, the Doctors Syndicate, and the heads of branch syndicate offices across Egypt calling for temporarily releasing them [ More … ]
At least 17 medics in Egypt’s main cancer hospital have been quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, officials said Saturday, raising fears the pandemic could prey on health facilities in the Arab world’s most [ More … ]
Hamas chief in Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar said ‘there is a possibility for an initiative to move forward with the file’ of exchanging prisoners. Israeli officials and Palestinian leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) [ More … ]
Twitter has removed thousands of accounts linked to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and several other countries for either taking directions from the governments or promoting pro-government content. Twitter said in a post on its platform on Thursday [ More … ]
The balance of power on the ongoing battles in Libya between the forces of the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and militias of Khalifa Hafter, supported by Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, France and Russian mercenaries, are [ More … ]
The Egyptian Batel (Void) opposition campaign has called for the release of more than a thousand doctors and healthcare workers in prisons to help in countering the pandemic The Batel campaign called for providing doctors, [ More … ]
The Houthi-allied Yemeni armed forces have retaken Al-Labnat military base in Al-Jawf province from the Saudi-backed mercenaries fighting to reinstate exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. This is the first time in five years that it [ More … ]
According to The Guardian: Whistleblower’s data suggests millions of phone tracking requests sent over a four-month period Saudi Arabia appears to be exploiting weaknesses in the global mobile telecoms network to track its citizens as they [ More … ]
General Abdel Fattah El Sisi of Egypt has directed the government to increase the allowance for medical professions by 75 %, i.e. LE 500 (about $30) that becomes only LE 200 (about $12.5) after deductions [ More … ]
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