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Close to half of the kingdom’s daily oil output has been impacted by Saturday’s drone attacks, sources say. Yemen‘s Iran-aligned Houthi group on Saturday attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia‘s oil industry, including the world’s [ More … ]
Ahmet Davutoglu quits after the party decided to send him to the disciplinary board, says will set up a new political movement. Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced his resignation from Turkey’s ruling [ More … ]
President Donald Trump shocked onlookers at the G7 meeting when he praised the president of Egypt as a dictator. “Inside a room of the ornately decorated Hotel du Palais during last month’s Group of Seven [ More … ]
A detainee being held at a police station in Giza governorate was beaten to death last week , reports Masrawy. The Interior Ministry has denied Karim Al-Khawaja, 45, died at the hands of police and instead [ More … ]
Eman al-Nafjan, who could face up to 20 years in jail for campaigning for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the Prize for Courage by Reporters Without Borders This came in a statement [ More … ]
Tunisians head to the polls on September 15 to elect a new president in the second such vote since the 2011 revolution. When President Beji Caid Essebsi died in late July, three months before his [ More … ]
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) on Thursday lowered its benchmark interest rate — the one week repo rate — by 325 basis points to 16.50% from 19.75%. Following the rate cut, [ More … ]
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has revealed the latest developments concerning the REnissance Dam negotiations. This came during the press conference held by the Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheit at the end of [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed Wednesday the Palestinian position on the cessation of all agreements signed with Israeli if the later decides to impose sovereignty on any part of the occupied Palestinian territory. Abbas said [ More … ]
Managing Director of Citi Bank says the increased external trade environment will affect Egypt badly. Managing director and head of Emerging Markets Economics at Citi Bank David Lupin said Monday at Euromoney conference that if [ More … ]
A cloud of mystery has been shadowing the death of Egyptian nuclear scientist Abu Bakr Abdel Moneim Ramadan who announced dead after attending an energy conference in Marrakech, Morocco. Ramadan was head of the National [ More … ]
The sale of the head of Tutankhamun at an auction in London in July 2019 provoked angry reactions from a wide range of Egyptians, which is good in itself, but reviewing these responses shows that [ More … ]
The Libyan Army forces under the command of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has conducted an all-out offensive on Khalifa Haftar’s forces in southern Tripoli frontlines and Souq Al-Khamis Imsahel, while carrying out airstrikes [ More … ]
The controversy over the videos posted on Facebook by the Egyptian actor and contractor Mohamed Ali, who worked for 15 years with the army, turned into an electronic war between regime opponents and supporters of [ More … ]
Aisha Khairat Al-Shater has been transferred to Al-Qanater Prison hospital after her health deteriorated in the one-meter square cell in which she is being held in solitary confinement. The daughter of the deputy leader of [ More … ]
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