An Egyptian court has ruled for the seizure and confiscation of the assets of 89 Muslim Brotherhood members, including the country’s first and only democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi. According to the state-owned daily Akhbar al-Youm, [ More … ]
A heavy Sudanese troop presence helped restore calm Tuesday in the Darfur region, after three days of inter-ethnic violence claimed at least 155 lives and displaced tens of thousands. A heavy Sudanese troop presence helped [ More … ]
More than 200 people were arrested after “riots” targeting public and private property in Tunisia, according to an official in the Tunisian Ministry of Interior. An official in the Tunisian Ministry of Interior said yesterday [ More … ]
The United Arab Emirates is open to the possibility of normalizing relations with Turkey, its chief diplomat has announced. Although Turkey has welcomed UAE’s positive statement on relations, however, it is not yet fully convinced. The [ More … ]
The government has banned wedding and funeral gatherings in bid to stem rapid rise in infection and deaths Rapidly rising Covid-19 infections are setting off alarm bells in Egypt, leading to a new raft of [ More … ]
An informed official says the visit of the Egyptian delegation to Tripoli aimed to ‘preempt further Emirati incitement of military adventure’, according to Mada Masr. On Sunday, a senior Egyptian delegation headed by General Intelligence [ More … ]
Saudi court sentences to women’s rights activist al-Hathloul 5+ years in prison [ More … ]
Despite plans to sell shares in some firms, the military will retain control of much of the economy. Anyway, “Egypt’s military companies aren’t going anywhere” according to a Bloomberg column. After several years of aggressive [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia wants the U.S. to act before Jan. 20, when President Donald Trump leaves office and Joe Biden — who has promised a tougher stance toward the kingdom — becomes president, the person said. [ More … ]
COVID-19 level in Egypt is very high: CDC [ More … ]
Ten years after the Arab Spring, the investigation of Giulio Regeni’s death offers a telling reminder of repression in the Middle East, according to a Bloomberg recent opinion. On the 10th anniversary of Tunisian fruit [ More … ]
Israeli top rabbi Yitzhak Yosef expressed his appreciation to the Emirati royal family and the government Israel’s top Jewish rabbi inaugurated a Jewish nursery school in Dubai on Sunday and made a special Jewish ritual [ More … ]
Italy and Egypt are set to cut a major military deal, apparently disregarding tensions caused by the murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in Cairo back in 2016, according to AL Monitor. Despite the differences [ More … ]
While almost all world countries are honoring doctors and celebrating medical professions, Egypt is jailing its doctors, amid hiking numbers of coronavirus infections. [ More … ]
A prominent Italian journalist and historian has returned his Legion of Honor to the French Embassy to protest the awarding of the prize to Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Popular Italian journalist Corrado Augias has announced [ More … ]
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