The Egyptian government has allocated almost $35 billion to repay debt and loan instalments during the 2020/2021 fiscal year which started in July, an official report has revealed. Last year, the Egyptian government repaid around [ More … ]
The US government has been urged to boycott next month’s G20 summit in Riyadh over the kingdom’s rights violations. Forty-five American lawmakers have urged the US government to boycott next month’s G20 summit in Riyadh [ More … ]
Mission conducted diplomacy with Bahrain via front company listed as commercial consulting firm, Axios reports The Manama-based facility conducted diplomacy with Bahrain via a front company listed as a commercial consulting firm. Negotiations to establish [ More … ]
Libya is preparing for a wary political solution. Despite a normative political solution to the Libyan conflict, a surprising resignation announcement and mass protests took place in the territory of the U.N.-backed Government of National [ More … ]
Tolerance Minister Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan is accused of sexual assault by one of the event’s curators. Britain’s Hay Festival will not return to Abu Dhabi until the United Arab Emirates’ tolerance minister [ More … ]
President Donald Trump has said the United States will remove Sudan from its State Sponsors of Terrorism list after the government in Khartoum paid compensation to victims of attacks. Trump, who is seeking re-election next [ More … ]
A recent letter reviewed by The Washington Post, US lawmakers signal Sisi’s rights violation ‘will not be tolerated’ if Biden wins the presidency. US lawmakers are calling on Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release political [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced the discovery of an additional 85 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the Black Sea, following a historic find this summer, reports Anadolu Agency. “Total amount [ More … ]
A new report has revealed that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigated links between the US and Egypt after $10 million was injected into the Trump presidential campaign 11 days before the 2016 election. The [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Syria-Russia alliance of committing possible war crimes and crimes against humanity by attacking civilians in rebel-held Idlib province and called for sanctions against top military officials. In a [ More … ]
Prisoners at Tora Istiqbal Prison are demanding putting an end to harsh disciplinary measures, according to rights groups Detainees at one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons have gone on hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment, [ More … ]
Lebanon and Israel have started talks to settle a maritime border dispute between them Lebanon and Israel, still technically at war, began unprecedented talks sponsored by the United Nations and the United States on Wednesday [ More … ]
Egyptian writer and Sisi critic Amin El-Mahdi died a few days after he was released from pretrial detention, which raised questions among Egyptian activists on the causes of his death. Amin El-Mahdi was first imprisoned [ More … ]
The three Egyptian dissidents have reportedly shown support for anti-Sisi protests that erupted across rural Egypt in September, according to Kuwaiti newspaper al-Qabas. The three opposition figures were handed over to Egyptian Interpol in line [ More … ]
Turkey is preparing to revise upward its estimate of its natural gas discovery in the Black Sea, Bloomberg reported, citing sources with direct knowledge of the plans. The Bloomberg report says Turkey expects to raise [ More … ]
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