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September 6, 2017

Rights group documents 84 violations against Palestinian media in August

The Committee to Support Palestinian Journalists said it had documented 84 attacks against media freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territories during August. The Committee pointed out that 40 attacks...

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September 6, 2017

Algeria to reopen Libya embassy ‘soon’

Algeria has announced plans to reopen its embassy in Tripoli, foreign minister Abdelkader Messahel told Algerian parliamentarians this week. “Algeria will be in Tripoli soon,” he responded when asked in...

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September 6, 2017

France assigns special envoy to Gulf State crisis

The French foreign ministry announced yesterday that it had assigned its former ambassador to Saudi Arabia Bertrand Besancenot as a special envoy to discuss the crisis among the Gulf States,...

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September 6, 2017

UAE, Saudi harass Qatari sports channel

A member of the administrative delegation of the UAE’s football team – which was beaten by Iraq and failed to reach next year’s world cup in Russia – removed...

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September 6, 2017

Trump reportedly set to meet Netanyahu and Abbas at UN General Assembly

US President Donald Trump will reportedly meet Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly later this month. According to...

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September 6, 2017

Hamas MP: prisoners dream of new swap that ends their suffering

Hamas MP Hassan Yousef, who was released from Israeli jails last Thursday, said that Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails dream of a new prisoner swap that ends their suffering,...

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September 6, 2017

250,000 unemployed in Gaza did not celebrate Eid holiday

More than 250,000 unemployed Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip could not afford to help their children celebrate the holiday of Eid al-Adha, which lasted from Friday to Monday,...

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September 6, 2017

WHO: 3,000 daily cholera cases in Yemen

Amid a continuing civil war, poor medical services and widespread poverty, the number of people hit by cholera in Yemen has reached 612,703 since the outbreak began in April,...

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September 6, 2017

24 Nubian activists arrested during protest in Egypt

Egyptian security authorities arrested 24 Nubians in Aswan on Sunday while they were taking part in a protest to commemorate the 2011 detention of fellow Nubians during a sit-in,...

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September 6, 2017

Bodies of 16 migrants found in Libya desert

Libyan forces affiliated with retired general Khalifa Haftar reported yesterday that it found the bodies of 16 migrants in the desert near Libya’s border with Egypt. Ahmed Al-Mismari, spokesman...

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