Egypt’s health minister has stipulated that mobile phones must be taken away from hospital patients for the duration of their stay following the death of an entire ICU ward over the weekend that was caught [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have sparked controversy on social networking sites over issuance of a ban on addressing four currently circulated topics: Sinai, Renaissance Dam, Coronavirus, and Libya. Egypt’s highest media regulatory body, an official state arm [ 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 … ]
Journalists and human rights defenders say Lebanese popular uprising has prompted the Palestinian Authority to stifle free speech The Palestinian Authority has blocked 59 Palestinian news websites and social media pages, following a request by [ More … ]
The US House voted on Wednesday to block $8.1 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other allies, a rebuke of Donald Trump. The US House voted on Wednesday to block $8.1 billion in [ More … ]
The fight to stop Muslim Brotherhood (MB) ban is not about whether political Islam is a good or bad thing. It’s about protecting democracy at home and abroad He is not really embarrassed by what [ More … ]
Technical talks between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia over a disputed dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile river failed to make a breakthrough, Egypt’s foreign minister said on Monday, amid pressure for a deal before [ More … ]
On April 21, Egypt’s Parliament of Egypt passed legislation banning cultivation of crops that require high volumes of water, as concerns increase that the upstream Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will negatively impact water flow for [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has announced that it will end its ban on women driving in the kingdom in a royal decree. The new law is expected to begin in June. Saudi Arabia will allow women to [ More … ]
The Head of the UN-backed government’s Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Serraj, said lifting the ban on arms purchase and importation to Libya is very imminent so that the army can do its job and secure the [ More … ]
Israeli rights group Adalah released a statement on Wednesday, calling Israel’s ban on residents of the Palestinian majority town of Umm al-Fahm in Israel from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem “illegal” and “irrational.” [ More … ]
About 3.5 million tourists have visited Tunisia up to July, said Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts Selma Elloumi Rekik. Tunisia managed to recover traditional markets, such as France. The lifting by the UK of the [ More … ]
The Sudanese government on Wednesday denied media reports that the decision to ban the Egyptian agricultural products has been reversed. The semi-official Sudan Media Center (SMC) has quoted the state minister of commerce Al-Sadiq Mohamed [ More … ]
Sudan’s El-Fasher Commissioner has issued a decision banning the Egyptian street vendors while a police circular has directed to monitor them because they could be informants for the rebel groups. Following rebel attacks in North [ More … ]
BY: ÇETİNER ÇETİN* The aversion between Turkey and European countries like Germany and the Netherlands is increasingly intensifying. This is because these countries cancelled Turkish authorities’ planned rally speeches that they would address Turkish nationals [ More … ]
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