Newspaper quoted a financial report saying Egypt’s Central Bank was planning to allow the Egyptian pound to fall by 7.5 percent and the monetary policy was destined to fail. Egyptian security forces arrested the chairman [ More … ]
Tensions in the Gulf between the US, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been exacerbated this week with the deployment of Houthi strikes on the neighboring kingdom. Yemen’s Houthis launched two attacks on a Saudi airport [ More … ]
Egypt’s Al-Sisi has ratified a new draconian cybercrime law that rights groups say paves the way for censoring online media. The law, published Saturday in the country’s official gazette, empowers authorities to order the blocking [ More … ]
The General People’s Congress lost its mouthpiece publication on Tuesday, after Houthi rebels banned the al-Mithaq newspaper, in what seems to be deepening tensions between the former allies. Yemen’s Houthi rebels banned a newspaper owned [ More … ]
At least 13 Palestinian journalists were injured as Israeli police forcibly evacuated a peaceful sit-in held in support of a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Palestinian journalists were injured when Israeli [ More … ]
TV anchor Azza El-Hennawy has been referred by the Administrative Prosecution to a disciplinary court on charges of insulting Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and expressing personal opinions on her TV show Cairo Today, reported Daily News [ More … ]
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