Former deputy head of Saudi Arabia’s general intelligence and former royal court adviser also accused in indictment. The Istanbul prosecutor’s office said it had prepared an indictment against 20 suspects over the killing of Saudi [ More … ]
In a televised address, Iran’s Rouhani says it is crucial for the sanctions-hit country to resume economic production. Iran‘s President Hassan Rouhani has said he expects measures taken to combat the spread of the highly infectious coronavirus, including [ More … ]
State television says the prime minister is safe after a blast in the capital, Khartoum. Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt Monday after a blast went off near his convoy in the capital, Khartoum. [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has detained two senior members of the royal family – Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and Mohammed bin Nayef, the king’s nephew – according to reports citing sources with knowledge of [ More … ]
Egypt announced on Friday that 12 new cases of the novel coronavirus were detected on a cruise ship in the southern tourist city of Luxor. According to MEE, Egyptian authorities say all those who tested positive for coronavirus [ More … ]
It is a religious obligation to vote amid concerns of low participation, Iranian leaders say. Iranians voted in their country’s 11th parliamentary election, seen as a test for the popularity of President Hassan Rouhani‘s reformist-moderate camp as [ More … ]
Ethiopian officials announced on Friday that negotiations between them and Sudan and Egypt that this past week in Washington ended without a final agreement on the longstanding Nile River dispute. Officials from the three countries [ More … ]
Gender & Rights Researcher Patrick George Zaki, arrested on arrival at Cairo airport, tortured and sent to Public Prosecution after 24 hours of incommunicado detention according to EIPR Early on the morning of Friday, February [ More … ]
Since the end of the 1990s, Egypt has dreamt of becoming an East Mediterranean gas and energy hub. Column By Cyril Widdershoven – Feb 01, 2020, 12:00 PM CST, Published first by oilprice.com The discoveries offshore in [ More … ]
US President Donald Trump finally unveiled his ‘Middle East Peace Plan’ on Tuesday, 28 January 2020, during a media conference in Washington, as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stood by his side. The entire document, [ More … ]
North African nation may be heading for new parliamentary elections over its inability to form a government. Tunisia‘s Ennahdha party has rejected a new government proposal that excludes other parties and is open to contest another [ More … ]
Rescuers desperately attempt to find survivors in eastern Turkey in the rubble of collapsed buildings. Search-and-rescue efforts continued on Sunday after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing 38 people and injuring more than 1,600 others. Nearly 4,000 [ More … ]
The friends and family of prisoners in Egypt have launched a social media campaign to raise awareness of the dire conditions inside Egypt’s prisons, according to MEMO Under a number of hashtags including the Arabic for [ More … ]
Detainees of the Scorpion Prison continue to be subjected to one of the most brutal ways of slow death, where the prison authority deprives them of their basic rights and exposes them to torture and [ More … ]
The former culture minister has been named as successor to late Sultan Qaboos. Oman’s Sultan Qaboos dies aged 79: State media. The monarch had ruled the sultanate since 1970 and transformed it into a modern [ More … ]
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