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Algeria has with "immediate effect" ended its 20-year-old cooperation treaty with Spain after Madrid reversed its long-standing policy of neutrality on the Western Sahara conflict in March by backing Morocco's position. "Algeria...

Tunisia and Israel are exploring the possibility of establishing closer ties, Israel Hayom reported yesterday, adding that Algeria is attempting to "derail" their efforts. An official told the newspaper...

An Algerian court yesterday sentenced journalist Ihsane El Kadi, director of M Radio, for six months after he published an article on the right to participate in the Hirak movement....

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) yesterday described President Kais Saied's decision to dismiss 57 judges, as a "new threat to freedom and the rule of law in Tunisia"....

Human rights groups said they had today submitted papers at the High Court in London to get an injunction to halt next week's planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, a...

Egypt has made a new record high in gas imports from Israel in the first quarter of the year. According to the weekly newsletter by the Middle East Economic...

Some 99 per cent of judges and judicial staff suspended their work on the second day of the week-long strike in rejection of President Kais Saied's decision to dismiss...

The Algerian army on Tuesday concluded night drills using live ammunition held on the border of Morocco and the disputed Western Sahara region. A statement issued by the Algerian...

The Indian monsoon depression has hit the Middle East causing high temperatures in the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Iran and Egypt. The city of Jahra in Kuwait recorded...

The United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Adam Abdel Mawla warned on Tuesday that Somalia was "on the brink of a deadly famine that could kill hundreds of...

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced 52 defendants to prison and acquitted five others in a case known in the media as the "Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in." The state-run MENA news...

At least 28,670 people were on death row around the world at the end of 2021, Amnesty International said in a report released yesterday, with Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia...

The legal expert tasked with rewriting Tunisia's Constitution said yesterday that he will present a draft version, removing any reference to Islam in order to counter "extremism". The first...

The Sidi Mohamed Court in Algiers sentenced, on Monday, Said Bouteflika, the jailed brother of late President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to eight years imprisonment for corruption, Anadolu news agency reported,...

Head of the Tunisian National Salvation Front Ahmed Nejib Chebbi announced on Sunday that the front supports the formation of a "national salvation government", pointing out that its establishment...

Transcripts from a White House meeting during the Israeli war on Lebanon in 1982 showed Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin pushed for the expulsion of Palestine refugees from Lebanon to Libya or Saudi Arabia, Haaretz revealed yesterday. Journalist Ofer Aderet wrote...

Tunisian President Kais Saied has replaced 13 governors weeks before a popular referendum A statement released yesterday said Saied has issued a decision to replace governors in 13 out...

Tunisian President Kais Saied yesterday ordered judges' salaries cut to take account of strike days after they began a week-long work stoppage in protest at his move to dismiss dozens of them, Reuters reports. Saied, who has progressively...

A protester was shot and killed by security forces in the Sudanese city of Omdurman yesterday, medics say, making them the 100th protester killed in anti-coup demonstrations since October, Reuters reports....

Egypt's net foreign reserves hit $35.495 billion at the end of May, compared to $37.123 billion in April, marking a decline of $1.628 billion, the Egyptian central bank announced...

Qatari investors have the opportunity to participate in some 50 investment projects in Egypt, the Chairman of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI), Mohamed Abdel Wahab,...

Qatar plans to re-install a sculpture immortalising French-Algerian football player, Zinedine Zidane's head butt during the 2006 World Cup final, which had been removed in 2013 amid a domestic...

Five Tunisian parties on Thursday launched a campaign to abolish the referendum on the new constitution that President Kais Saied formed a committee to draft. In a joint statement...

The president of Tunisia's Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, said yesterday that the end of the "coup against legitimacy" is imminent, especially after the rapprochement between all parties in the...

After years of absence from the international arena, Algeria has been exerting efforts to revive its international diplomatic presence, Rai Al-Youm reported yesterday. The online newspaper added that Israel is worried...

The deputy of Tunisia's ruling Ennahda Party Noureddine Al-Buhairi yesterday said President Kais Saied would be "defeated". "We will defeat you, Kais, just as we had defeated Zine El Abidine...

Tunisia's United Democratic Patriots Party (PPDU) yesterday dismissed Mongi Rahoui, one its political bureau members, for participation in the first meeting of the Advisory Committee for the New Republic....

Morocco has reportedly established a regulatory agency to oversee the country's cannabis cultivation for medical use. The decision was the outcome of a meeting on Thursday under the chairmanship...

The Russian Embassy in Libya will resume work soon, according to the Russian presidential envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Anadolu Agency reported. Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters on...

Five Tunisian parties on Thursday announced the launch of a campaign to abolish the referendum on the new constitution. This came in a joint statement by the Republican Party,...

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday issued a presidential order to dismiss 57 judges. Saied vowed to issue a decree soon to reveal the names of judges he accused...

The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) has accused Tunisian Justice Minister Laila Jaffal of carrying out a "terrorism campaign" against judges over their handling of certain cases, Arab48.com reported...