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  • August 25, 2016

    Sisi pardons 300 prisoners

    Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decree to pardon 300 prisoners within the next few days. “The list of pardons includes journalists, prisoners with medical conditions and youth...

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  • August 25, 2016

    Saudi prince says he twice saved Trump from bankruptcy

    Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal said he twice saved US presidential candidate Donald Trump from bankruptcy, describing him as a “bad and ungrateful person”. In an interview with...

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  • August 25, 2016

    1.2m Palestinians return to school next week

    Some 1,192,808 students are due to start school in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian Authority (PA) Education Minister Sabri Saidam announced yesterday. Of those...

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  • August 25, 2016

    Kayed ends 71-day hunger strike

    Palestinian hunger striker Bilal Kayed ended his 71-day hunger strike yesterday after Israel ended his solitary confinement and pledged not to renew his administrative detention and to allow his...

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  • August 25, 2016

    Portugal withdraws from project with Israeli police after BDS pressure

    The Portuguese government has withdrawn from a joint European Union-funded project with the Israeli Ministry of Public Security, the Israeli National Police and Israel’s Bar Ilan university. The announcement...

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  • August 25, 2016

    Tunisia’s Ennahda to give confidence to unity government

    Tunisia’s Ennahda movement will give confidence to Yusuf al-Shahid’s unity government due to be presented on Friday before the parliament. “Ennahda has not asked for changes in Yusuf al-Shahid’s...

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  • August 25, 2016

    Biden: US is Turkey’s closest ally

    US Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday that the United States is Turkey’s closest ally, pledging to provide all the support to the Turkish government.  Sky News reported that...

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  • August 24, 2016

    Online campaign to win over Gaza voters

    Hamas is expected to win the local elections in Gaza while Fatah will win in the occupied West Bank by a small margin, a new survey revealed. Some 60...

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  • August 24, 2016

    UK: Israel sold weapons to Argentina at the peak of Falklands War

    Newly declassified UK Foreign Office files have revealed that Israel sold weapons to Argentina in 1982, when the Falklands War was at its peak. Israel provided Argentina with arms...

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  • August 24, 2016

    Political success in Morocco will help whole Arab region

    The third commemoration of the Rabaa and Nahda massacres forces us to revisit two issues, at least. The first is the international community’s phoney treatment of a bloody military...

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