Kuwaiti foreign ministry has called on Egypt to investigate an “assault” on a number of Kuwaiti students by security personnel at a mall in Alexandria. Kuwait’s ministry of foreign affairs called on Sunday for the [ More … ]
The Egyptian Prime Minister had stated in a statement that the rise in numbers of COVID-19 deaths was due to the absence and “unpunctuality of some doctors”. The Egyptian Medical Syndicate on Tuesday decried remarks [ More … ]
The International Monetary Fund on Monday said its executive board approved $2.77 billion in emergency financing to help Egypt grapple with the new coronavirus pandemic that has brought tourism to a standstill and triggered major [ More … ]
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed ‘Iran’s enemies’ and ‘hooligans’ for the unrest as officer reported killed in western Iran. He said ‘all the centres of the world’s wickedness against us have cheered’ the unrest. Iran’s Supreme [ More … ]
Egypt’s State Council Judges’ Club (similar to a syndicate) has strongly slammed the proposed constitutional amendments as violating the independency of judiciary. The judicial body criticism came in a memo that it has recently sent [ More … ]
Ethiopia rejected Friday a European Parliament resolution calling for the release of “all arbitrarily detained persons” including prominent opposition politician Merera Gudina. Although Thursday’s resolution commended Ethiopia’s role in regional stability, it opposed the detention [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative at the UN, Abdullah Al-Mouallimi, said the human aspect in the Yemen war is most important for the Arab coalition waging military operations to restore government legitimacy there, contradicting propaganda circulated [ More … ]
The OSCE claimed a “lack of equal opportunities, one-sided media coverage and limitations on fundamental freedoms” had created an “unlevel playing field” in Turkey’s constitutional referendum. “In general, the referendum did not live up to [ More … ]
Turkish ambassador in Washington D.C. slammed the U.S. government’s decision to subject Istanbul and Turkish Airlines to a ban on passengers carrying electronics larger than cell phones on flights bound for the United States. Ambassador [ More … ]
Criticizing Greek defense minister’s rhetoric on Kardak islets, Mevlut Cavusoglu adds that Turkey values ties with Greece Continuing a war of words over Aegean islets, Turkey’s foreign minister Sunday slammed the “provocative” rhetoric of Greece’s [ More … ]
‘We cannot tolerate making life more economically challenging for expatriates who have been legally recruited’ A proposal to impose taxes on remittances by expatriates in Kuwait has been assailed as “nonsensical” by lawmakers. “It will [ More … ]
A Kuwaiti parliamentarian committee has protested against Iran’s “antagonistic and provocative” practices, saying that they hampered any form of cooperation or attempt to improve relations. The Kuwaiti parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee said during a discussion [ More … ]
Abbas’ statement came following the introduction of a bill to Congress on Wednesday, spearheaded by three US senators — Republicans Ted Cruz (Texas), Dean Heller (Nevada), and Marco Rubio (Florida) — that would recognize Jerusalem [ More … ]
Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday slammed Facebook’s administration after the social media giant blocked dozens of accounts and pages in support of the movement following the launch of a social media campaign by [ More … ]
The Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have slammed the Israeli latest bill to ban Adhan (calling for Muslim prayers in occuped territories). The Arab League strongly condemned on Wednesday the [ More … ]
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