The EU’s lawmaking body has condemned Egyptian authorities for human rights abuses and is urging them to lift restrictions on free speech and assembly, halt mass trials and stop sentencing minors to death, and release [ More … ]
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly. Before Thursday’s vote, [ More … ]
Less than a week after US President Donald Trump signed a presidential waiver preventing the moving of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the US Senate passed a resolution on Monday — the [ More … ]
Turkish government minister Wednesday called for military force to be used against Bashar al-Assad’s regime in order to prevent further atrocities against civilians. EU Affairs Minister Ömer Çelik said that Assad had manipulated efforts to [ More … ]
A few days ago, Israel recalled its ambassador to UNESCO for consultations after the U.N. culture body adopted a second resolution in two weeks that Israeli leaders said ignored Judaism’s connection with one of Jerusalem’s [ More … ]
Following a controversial UNESCO vote that saw the adoption of a draft resolution that sharply criticized Israeli policies around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, while supposedly rejecting Jewish ties to the holy site — referred to by [ More … ]
Egypt under al-Sisi reign enhances the relations with Israel not only on the security level but also on the diplomatic level. According to a cable sent to several Israeli embassies whose contents reached Haartez, the [ More … ]
Egypt is playing a mediating role in the Libyan crisis trying to resolve the conflict between Haftar and al-Serraj. The head of the Presidential Council (PC) of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez Al-Sarraj, [ More … ]
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