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March 17, 2017

Turkey to ban saucy dating TV shows

Popular Turkish dating shows accused of being sexually provocative will be banned in Turkey because they do not fit with the country’s conservative traditions or customs, the deputy prime...

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March 17, 2017

Egypt sets date for retrial of policemen charged with torturing lawyer

The Cairo Court of Appeals has set 5 April as the date to retry two security officers accused of torturing lawyer Karim Hamdy to death inside Al-Matariya Police Station....

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March 17, 2017

Egypt’s Mubarak files lawsuit to unfreeze his assets

Egypt’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons, Gamal and Alaa, have filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Justice and the General Prosecution’s freeze of their assets...

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March 17, 2017

Gaza healthcare crippled amid fuel shortages

The healthcare system in the besieged Gaza Strip has been crippled by a shortage of fuel for the generators that provide electricity for hospitals during the enclave’s lengthy, daily...

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March 17, 2017

Egypt stages counter-terror raid to cover up extrajudicial killings

Security forces in Egypt may have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared up to ten men and then staged a counterterrorism raid to cover up their killings, says an investigation...

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March 17, 2017

Syrian forces fire at Israeli jets

Israeli military jets have been targeted by anti-aircraft missiles in Syria in an incident that has broken the silence over Israel’s operations in Syria. In one of the most...

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March 17, 2017

Israeli settlers assault Palestinian driver in south Jerusalem

Two Jewish settlers yesterday assaulted a Palestinian driver while he was working in occupied Jerusalem. The Jerusalemite driver Fadi Abed, 42, told Quds Press that he was on his...

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March 17, 2017

Tunisian journalists’ union rejects claim that its members visited Israel

The National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists has denied claims by the Israeli prime minister’s spokesman that he had received a number of journalists from the Maghreb region. The syndicate...

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March 17, 2017

Israel guilty of ‘collective punishment in Gaza after 1967 war’

A secret document has been published which reveals that Israel was guilty of collective punishment against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip a few days after the end of...

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March 17, 2017

Why BDS activists can’t shrug off the ban on entering Israel

The cynic might say that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement got what was coming to it when Israel recently banned its activists from visiting the country. You...

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