Israel’s move to shut down a key healthcare body in the occupied territories will have “catastrophic consequences” for Palestinians in need of medical attention, global rights group Amnesty International warned. Israeli army forces raided the [ More … ]
Turkey’s lira currency had reached to new all-time lows after president Erdogan called for interest rate cuts in the next two months and said he spoke to the central bank’s new governor about it. “I [ More … ]
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has informed the country’s president that he can form a coalition government, a move that would bring an end to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 years in power. Lapid, leader [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and the Palestinian territories poured onto the streets to celebrate the ceasefire, waving flags and flashing ‘V’ signs for victory. ‘This is the first time the Sword of Jerusalem [Palestinian [ More … ]
Several Palestinians killed in new wave of Israeli raids on Gaza as Benjamin Netanyahu vows to continue attacks ‘as long as necessary’!! Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered its seventh consecutive day with air [ More … ]
Hamas has said it fired more than 100 rockets at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike destroyed a tower block in the besieged Gaza Strip. The 13-storey residential tower in [ More … ]
More than 200 Palestinian worshippers wounded in Al-Aqsa amid growing anger over Israeli plans to evict Palestinian families from occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah. Tens of thousands of worshippers had earlier packed Islam’s third-holiest site [ More … ]
Crimes Against Humanity Should Trigger Action to End Repression of Palestinians. Human Rights Watch has released its’ latest human rights report regarding the Israeli Policies saying; Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid [ More … ]
Agreement includes a $1.65bn contract for the establishment and operation of a training center for the Greek air force. Greece and Israel have signed their biggest ever defense procurement deal, which Israel said would strengthen [ More … ]
The agreement was signed in Tehran last Saturday by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Wang, who touched down in Tehran on Friday for a two-day visit as part [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince says oil firm Aramco and petrochemical firm SABIC will lead investments of five trillion riyals ($1.3 trillion) by the country’s private sector by 2030 under an economic diversification programme. The move, [ More … ]
Local authorities said the Ever Given was 80% corrected and planned to continue tugging efforts A giant container ship that has blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week has been refloated, raising hopes that [ More … ]
One of the largest cargo container ships in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt’s Suez Canal, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic. The MV [ More … ]
The editor-in-chief of the pro-Egyptian regime newspaper, Al Watan, has put forward ten conditions that Turkey must meet before Cairo agrees to “resume talks” with Ankara. Writing on his Facebook page in 12 March Ahmed Elkhateeb [ More … ]
Sisi’s regime has decided to sell the bulk of government procured COVID-19 vaccines, rather than provide them for free. BY; MAGED MANDOUR The two-dose Astra Zeneca inoculation will be sold for 100-200 Egyptian pounds (EGP), though [ More … ]
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