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VIDEO Below is a transcript of the video: We took part in the 30 June (demonstration), and that turned out to be a big mistake, and we took part in what was called the correction revolution of 30 June. We went to Al-Ittihadiyyah (presidential palace) and we went down...

Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (NCA) approved on Tuesday chapters of the new constitution which guarantees the "republican" nature of the security apparatus and the army and their "full impartiality" in politics. The assembly passed an amendment to Chapter 6 of the draft, criminalising takfir (accusing others of apostasy) and...

The Sudanese minister of foreign affairs, Ali Karti, announced on Monday that there are ongoing consultations between Khartoum and Juba to deploy joint forces to secure oil sites in South Sudan. Karti, who accompanied President Omar El-Bashir on his visit to South Sudan, noted that Juba is the party...

The April 6 Youth Movement has accused the interim president of Egypt of exploiting his legislative authority to pass a law "that opens the door to the manipulation of the referendum on the constitution". The movement made the accusation on its Facebook page. The group said that Adly Mansour,...

A delegation of Iraqi security officials has arrived in Cairo for a four-day visit to discuss cooperation with Egypt in"the fight against terrorism and organised crime", it has been reported. Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper quoted an informed source among those receiving the delegation at the airport."Five senior Iraqi security officials...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has condemned the continued "enforced disappearance" of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the ongoing ban on visits by his lawyers. The movement accused the authorities of "abducting" Morsi on July 3 and holding him incommunicado ever since in an attempt to put pressure on...

According to a report by the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper, Jordanian decision makers are becoming increasingly concerned about the ongoing political crisis in Egypt and the prospect that the country may be heading towards imminent chaos or a new revolution. Security officials recently warned that a prolonged and unresolved political...

The Muslim Brotherhood condemned on Wednesday the adjournment of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's hearing under the pretext that bad weather hindered bringing him to court in Cairo from his prison in Alexandria. In a statement, the MB said, "Egyptian people have long waited to see their legal president,...

Egyptian embassies in the Gulf countries and Europe have seen a low turnout of Egyptian expatriates during the first day of voting on Egypt's new constitution, leaving the military backed government in Cairo in a tight zone. The constitution was prepared by the Committee of 50, a group appointed...

VIDEO The coordinator of the Judges for the Sake of Egypt movement, Waleed Shorrabi said on Wednesday that more than 80 per cent of judges in Egypt are against the military action currently taking place in Egypt. Speaking to Ahmed Mansour on Al-Jazeera TV, Shorrabi said, "Judges in Egypt...

The Bloomberg website reported on Wednesday that during tripartite negotiations between Cairo, Khartoum and Addis Ababa in Khartoum, Ethiopia refused to guarantee Egypt's water allocation from the River Nile. Ethiopia has begun building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Ethiopia's Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile. The...

A number of Palestinians have been arrested by Egyptian police while travelling through Cairo. The men have been charged with "membership of Hamas". A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement, Dr Sami Abu Zuhri, said that one of those arrested was picked up while heading for Turkey to visit...

Egypt's security forces have released Jihad Al-Khayat, a first year student in the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Jihad arrived at her home in a wheelchair due to poor state of health as a result of what is alleged to have been brutal torture by...

Tunisia's Constituent Assembly ratified on Thursday an article stipulating that all male and female citizens have the same rights and duties and are equal before the law without discrimination. The assembly's general rapporteur, Khader Habib, explained that the new article of the draft Tunisian Constitution guarantees equality between men...

Egyptian minister for religious affairs in the coup government, Mohamed Mokhtar Jomaa, has banned the Friday prayer in mosques with an area of less than 80 Sqm in Egypt. The ban has already taken effect in several governorates in the country. It started five weeks ago in the city...

On Friday the Freedom and Justice party warned of the "hideous," aggressive treatment of prisoners inside the coup government jails, a statement has said. "The fascist, bloody coup has been incredibly destructive to the rights, guaranteed by heaven and earth laws, of the prisoners," the statement said. It pointed...

Algerian authorities have detained a Moroccan citizen, accusing him of spying for his country, the online publication Opinion Today said on Friday. The detention has sparked a wave of ironic criticism in the Moroccan media as it comes at a time of difficult relations between both countries. There is...

An Algerian man, Mubarak Rahmani Messe, believed to be the world's oldest, passed away on Saturday evening at the age of 140 years. He was treated in hospital two years ago for the first time in his life to cure a stomach illness. Messe, it is believed, was born...

Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour suggested that if Egyptians approve the new constitution in the referendum being held on Tuesday and Wednesday, then this will pave the way for the election of a president and a parliament. During a speech on Sunday in commemoration of the Prophet's birthday, Mansour...

The Egyptian Chamber of Travel Agencies announced Sunday it had terminated business dealings with 65 foreign travel agencies by the end of last year; albeit for failing to pay dues to their Egyptian partners. Adel Zaki, the chairman of foreign tourism committee at the chamber, stated that debts amounted...

The family of Amena Yaser, a 17 year old high school student, said Sunday that Amena and four other students detained with her since the December 17 protests in front of Al-Azhar University have been subjected to pregnancy tests at Naser City security directorate where they were being held...

A Swedish citizen imprisoned at a Cairo prison called on the Swedish prime minister and Cairo's ambassador to intervene to free him from his unjust imprisonment. In a leaked message from Wadi al-Natron prison north of Cairo published by Al Jazeera website and dated December 6, Ahmad Fouad, a...

Egypt's minister of defense and leader of the July 3 military coup Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said he may bow to public pressure and run for presidency if the people mandated him to nominate himself. Al-Sisi made the remarks during a seminar hosted by the military's public relations unit. The...

A group of 34 prominent religious scholars in Saudi Arabia affiliated to the Salafist movement issued a statement on Sunday condemning the position of the Salafist Al-Nour party in Egypt regarding the current political situation. "The position of party has caused damage to the interests of Islam and...

VIDEO Below is a transcript of the video: Then, we have to be present in the committees. He whom his vote they put (in the box) should not walk away. Let him take with him a sandwich and (drinking) water. And we (should) sit (down) so as for all...

The head of the semi-autonomous Barqa Province (Cyrenaica), in the east of Libya, Abedrabu Al-Bar'asi survived an assassination attempt on Sunday. A source close to Al-Bar'asi said that his bodyguards caught the armed attacker and arrested him. He is under investigation in order to find out who was behind...

The Algerian army intercepted a shipment of arms believed to be coming from Libya, Algeria's Al-Nahar Al-Jadid newspaper reported on Monday. The shipment in question was reportedly travelling through Algeria when the army intercepted it near the Illizi desert, which is in the south-eastern part of the country near...

At least seven peaceful activists from the Strong Egypt party face criminal charges, apparently for hanging posters calling for a "no" vote in the forthcoming constitutional referendum. During interrogations with prosecutors and police, questions fixated on the posters and the men's political views. The constitutional referendum will be held...

Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate, also known as Aman, is expecting for Egyptians to thwart the military dictatorship of Egypt's Defence Minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. On account of Egyptians' growing awareness of their rights and desire to be liberated from a state of fear,...

Tunisia's National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) was scheduled on Monday to complete the vote on the new chapter of the Constitution related to judicial powers, but heated discussion took place that ended the first session without an agreement on one of the articles. Two of the articles, one regarding the...

The Strong Egypt Party announced on Monday that it would boycott the referendum of the proposed new Constitution. The party is not a supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. The party had decided to take part in the referendum and advised people to vote "no" to the Constitution....

The Carter Centre for International Election Observation has announced that it will not send field observers to monitor the referendum on Egypt's Constitutional amendments which started today. The voting process will last for two days, although Egyptian expatriates around the world have been voting since last week. The director...

Egypt's judicial investigation authority appointed by Cairo's Court of Appeal and headed by Judge Tharwat Hammad decided on Wednesday to ban 20 Egyptians from travel pending investigations into allegations of "insulting the judiciary". Those banned include judges, journalists, lawyers, former MPs and activists from a variety of political affiliations...

The Arab Observatory for Rights and Freedoms published its report on the turnout in Egypt's 2014 constitutional referendum based on attendance sheets in polling stations and the documentation by local and international observers. The turnout reached an average of 11.3% in all governorates. In 2012, the turnout was approximately...

An Egyptian newspaper has reported that Coptic Pope Tawadros met with former Palestinian leader Mohamad Dahlan in Cairo on Thursday. Elshaab suggested that the meeting may be a prelude to civil strife in Egypt orchestrated by Dahlan. The ex-Fatah man is known for his sponsorship of a number of...

The veteran leader of Tunisia's Ennahda Party, Rashid Ghannouchi, has returned to his humble home in Tunisia to have some rest and receive guests after the end of the deliberations over the resignation of the coalition cabinet led by the party under Prime Minister Ali Larayedh. "We are no...

Egyptian Finance Ministry statements indicate that the government has borrowed about 21 billion Egyptian pounds (equivalent to $3 billion) in the past week alone through domestic tools such as treasury bills and bonds that are due to be paid back according to different deadlines. According to statements published on...

Washington will not support any potential action by the UN Security Council on the Goldstone report on war crimes in Gaza, Former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Alejandro Wolff has declared. Wolff said the US believes that the appropriate platform to discuss the report is the UN...

The United States sent a message to Egypt stating it does not support the proposed reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas as it would undermine negotiations with Israel, Haaretz has learned. George Mitchell, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East, met on Saturday night in Cairo with the chief...

The US pledged on Tuesday to help Israel combat the Goldstone report documents alleged war crimes committed during the attack on Gaza last winter. This offer to "fight the Goldstone report" came during a meeting between US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice and Israeli President Shimon Peres in...

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said that Israel must make greater efforts to ensure peace with the Palestinians, a day after supporting Israel on the contentious settlements issue. Speaking in Morocco while meeting Arab foreign ministers on Monday, Clinton said that Washington remains opposed to Israeli...

NEW YORK – October 30 – The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls on the United States not to block Security Council action on the Goldstone Report concerning war crimes and possible crimes against humanity committed in Gaza when it votes in the UN Security Council. The Goldstone Report...

Dozens of nations at the UN have backed a non-binding resolution calling for independent inquiries by Israel and the Palestinians into war crimes in Gaza. The UN General Assembly is set to vote on the resolution at the end of a two-day debate on a report by former war...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesday, saying Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the West Bank enclaves and wants to see their construction halted "forever." Still, she said an Israeli offer to restrain –...

By Shuki Sadeh, Haaretz Correspondent Thousands of people in Buenos Aires protested against President Shimon Peres' visit to Argentina on Monday, some of whom carried a banner telling the octogenarian he deserved a Nobel Prize for murder. The banner referred to 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, which Peres won together...

The U.S president Barak Obama renewed his commitment to Israel's security in a recorded speech transmitted to a conference in Tel Aviv over the weekend to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the Israeli former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.   In his speech, Obama said that "Israel will always find...

Speaking at SETA (Foundation for political economic and social research) in Washington, the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, for the first time, that Israel had commited crimes in Gaza. Before the visit by the Turkish PM Erdogan and his Cabinet Members to Washington it had been expected that, in...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has expressed his concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza arising from the blockade imposed by Israel and the ongoing effects of the Israeli bombardment and invasion of the territory last winter. Speaking to reporters in New York, Ban Ki-moon...

The United Nations Special Human Rights Rapporteur in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, yesterday stressed the need to urgently and wholly implement the findings of the Goldstone report commissioned by the Human Rights Council. In a statement issued in New York Falk days before the first anniversary of...

The scientist, Stewart David Nozette, 52, from Chevy Chase – Maryland, USA. He was approached by an FBI agent pretending to be an Israeli Intelligence officer. He is facing charges of attempting to communicate, transfer and deliver classified information. Stewart will be making his initial court appearance at a...