The ICJ said it unanimously “rejects the appeal” by the rival states against a decision in favor of Qatar over sovereign airspace. The UN’s top court on Tuesday backed Qatar in a bitter row with [ More … ]
A prominent Egyptian journalist, Mohamed Monir, who had been jailed on charges of broadcasting false news died of COVID-19 on Monday, raising fears that the coronavirus may be spreading undetected in Egypt’s notoriously crowded prisons. [ More … ]
US Democratic candidate Joe Biden has said there will be no more “blank checks for Trump’s favorite dictator” in a widely shared Twitter post. The comments come not long after the release of the dual [ More … ]
Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) will agree to a cease-fire only if warlord Khalifa Haftar withdraws his forces from country’s central and western regions, the Turkish foreign minister said, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking [ More … ]
The amendments require current and former officers to seek the approval of top military council before running for election Egypt’s parliament has approved amendments to a law that would restrict current and former members of [ More … ]
While the government tried to bury evidence of the outbreak of coronavirus all over the country, the Egyptian activists on the social networking sites forced it to confess, stated a report by Ola Salem in [ More … ]
Corrupt and criminal actors from around the world, including Afghan warlords, Russian mobsters, Nigerian kleptocrats, European money launderers, Iranian sanctions-busters, and East African gold smugglers, operate through or from Dubai, says a new damning report [ More … ]
Fake journalists, experts, news outlets attack role of Turkey, Qatar in the region, investigation finds out. At least 19 fake experts with fake personas have placed more than 90 opinion pieces in 46 different publications [ More … ]
Egyptian prosecution orders imprisonment of a young doctor for writing a post about the government’s neglect of efforts exerted by Egyptian medical staff, criticizing PM comments on doctors. The Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to [ More … ]
Morocco ‘could take an initiative, which would bring an end once and for all to this matter,’ says Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune The president of Algeria said Saturday he would welcome an initiative to end [ More … ]
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Guler went to Libya Friday to review activities carried out under MoU signed by Turkey, Libya. Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said [ More … ]
Today is the day that Israel declared it will launch the final step of its plan – which it has been implementing for years as it clashes with the rest of humanity – to “annex” [ More … ]
A rare joint conference with Fatah’s Jibril al-Rajoub and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri was the first major joint media appearance for the two Palestinian parties since 2017. A joint video conference between the two biggest Palestinian [ More … ]
Hundreds of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank gathered on a hilltop to voice rejection of Israel’s annexation plan About 1,000 Jewish settlers took to a hilltop on the outskirts of the illegal Gush [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia and Israel do not share official diplomatic ties, but the two countries have started to normalize relations in recent years, particularly in terms of Iranian foreign policy In the latest display of warming [ More … ]
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