Egypt has missed out on an additional $75 million in American military aid after a senior Democratic U.S. senator blocked the funding over concerns about Cairo’s human rights record including holding political prisoners, reported Reuters. [ More … ]
The Biden administration has decided to deny $130 million of military aid allocated for Egypt over the country’s failure to comply with human rights conditions laid out by the State Department, according to a senior [ More … ]
Libya’s National Oil Corporation said fighters of Russian mercenaries entered the Sharara oil field on Thursday in an attempt to block production there. Production in Sharara had only this month resumed after months of closure [ More … ]
The state-owned Egyptian media regulator revealed that it was “likely” that the internationally renowned news website BBC alongside other news websites have been blocked in Egypt for their “inaccurate” coverage small-scaled protests that took place [ More … ]
The media watchdog described Egypt as “one of the world’s biggest prisons for journalists” Egypt has blocked access to the website of international media watchdog Reporters without Borders, as part of ongoing censorship measures in [ More … ]
As the humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip continues to raise alarms, reports emerged Monday that the occupied West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has been preventing Palestinians in the coastal enclave from leaving the [ More … ]
Turkey has confirmed that it has blocked Austrian participation in some NATO programs due to Vienna’s constant anti-Turkish stance on various EU platforms, Turkish diplomatic sources told the Hürriyet Daily News. “Turkey has been taking [ More … ]
Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday slammed Facebook’s administration after the social media giant blocked dozens of accounts and pages in support of the movement following the launch of a social media campaign by [ More … ]
A bipartisan group of Senators is moving to block the $1.15 billion sale of US tanks to Saudi Arabia, citing concerns over human rights and the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Riyadh has requested new tanks [ More … ]
Egypt has expressed its reservation over a draft resolution in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation(OIC) to consider Fethullah Gulen’s organization as a “terrorist organization” during the OIC preparation meeting for its 43 rd session of the [ More … ]
Egypt has blocked a UN call to respect democratically elected government in Turkey. A diplomat said that the United Nations’ Security Council failed on Saturday to condemn the violence and unrest in Turkey after Egypt objected [ More … ]
The Criminal Court in Zagazig, Sharqia, has sent Ghada Abdel Hamid to rigorous imprisonment for 15 years. Ghada Abdel Hamid (26-years) was charged of administrating a Facebook page, the page is called “Women against the [ More … ]
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