The company’s social media account show buses, bikes, boats and even helicopters. Media reports linked the company with the Egyptian armed forces, the company denied Official sources told local media that Dubci’s head of human [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have said they will take legal action after an auction house in London sold a 3,000-year-old statue believed to depict the famed Pharaoh Tutankhamen. London-based auction house Christie’s sold a rare “brown quartzite [ More … ]
Egypt suffered a defeat against South Africa round of 16 after a late goal, kicking Egypt out of the tournament. Thembinkosi Lorch scored the decisive goal five minutes from time in the second half, finishing [ More … ]
Members of Al-Sisi’s own regime have joined Egypt’s opposition and the president is afraid, Director of the Egypt-based Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Bahey eldin Hassan has told an audience in London. This has [ More … ]
After weeks of heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, national security adviser John Bolton’s visit to Abu Dhabi this week signaled that there isn’t an easy way out of the dispute that Trump’s [ More … ]
How inflammatory headlines, unnamed sources and decades of misinformation in the US media over Iran play their part. Hyped-up headlines, “anonymous” sources and unspecified threats – Iran is back in the news in the United States. It wouldn’t [ 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 … ]
While Palestinians have rejected upcoming summit in Bahrain, UAE insists it ‘aims to lift the Palestinian people out of misery’ The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia have welcomed an upcoming economic summit in [ More … ]
The Houthi rebels have attacked Najran Airport in Saudi Arabia, which contains a military base, with a bomb-laden drone. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Tuesday that they had launched a bomb-laden drone into Saudi Arabia, [ More … ]
Negotiations over political transition put on ice as violence flares in Sudan, leaving several demonstrators wounded. At least 14 people have been wounded, some from gunfire, when Sudanese forces tried to remove demonstrators from central [ More … ]
The ousting of former Sudan president, Omar Al-Bashir, has left various factions within the military battling for control of the state. Since the military ouster of Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir, early on Thursday, 11 April, after three [ More … ]
Egypt has demanded from the transitional military council in Sudan to hand over Muslim Brotherhood leaders, end border dispute on Halaa’ib and Shalatin triangle, and suspend Suakin agreement with Turkey. Egypt demanded that the transitional [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has recently executed 37 people after they were sentenced to death based on ambiguous charges. Unfortunately, the real murderers who plotted and killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last [ More … ]
Egypt’s latest referendum results reveal as much as they conceal. Egypt has just passed constitutional amendments in a hastily-arranged referendum that ended on April 22. They are important mostly because they will advance President Abdel-Fattah [ More … ]
Batel (Void) online campaign that was launched by some Egyptian opposition figures from across the political spectrum to counter-act Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi’s push to change Egypt’s Constitution, late Monday posted a statement on its Facebook [ More … ]
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