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A new leaked letter from Egypt's Badr 3 Prison for Reform and Rehabilitation revealed shocking details of the reasons for attempting to commit suicide by political prisoners inside the...

Greece has sentenced a fisherman to 280 years in prison for steering a migrant boat in rough waters, finding him guilty on charges of human trafficking. The 45-year-old Egyptian...

Egypt, one of the world's largest wheat importers, has given notice it will withdraw at the end of June from a decades-old UN grains treaty, causing consternation among some...

Two Palestinians were killed and ten were among those rescued after a boat sank off the coast of Greece, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority announced...

Tunisian President Kais Saied said late on Wednesday that he will dissolve municipal councils, months before they are due to be elected, further dismantling the layers of government developed...

The new UK Bill against illegal migrants violates the international treaty for refugees and, therefore,, is a violation of international law, said an official of the UN's Refugee Agency,...

Thirty-eight countries at the UN Human Rights Council have demanded justice following the huge explosion in Beirut port on 4 August 2020. In a joint statement delivered by Australia...

The Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has renewed his call for Arab nations to support the agency. Philippe Lazzarini concluded an official...

Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has been slammed for allegedly "defending the Zionist entity" during meetings with African and European officials. The Justice and Development Party (PJD) denounced Bourita's...

A Tunisian judge has jailed the country's former Minister of Agriculture, Mohamed Ben Salem, on charges of "crossing the borders without permission, possession of foreign currency and illicit enrichment."...

Egypt is counting on Arab nations to pressure Ethiopia to halt its "unilateral practices" over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said yesterday. "The...

US Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin, travelled to Egypt on Wednesday to tell Cairo it wanted to deepen security and other ties but was concerned about human rights in the...

South Africa's parliament voted yesterday to downgrade the country's embassy in Israel due to the ongoing Israeli occupation and abuses of international human rights law in occupied Palestine. The...

The military head of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has dismissed the governors of three states in the south and east of the country and appointed their...

Thirteen people from the terrorist group Al-Shabaab and Daesh were executed by firing squad in Somalia's northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland today. The executions were ordered by a military...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today met with Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in the capital Ankara for talks. Erdogan and Embalo held a closed-door meeting at the presidential...

The Egyptian government should overturn the harsh prison sentences imposed on 5 March following a mass trial of 29 people, says Human Rights Watch. The activists sentenced belong to...

Amnesty International called on the Tunisian authorities yesterday to stop using its "legal arsenal" against activists who "exercise their basic human rights, specifically their right to express their opinions...

A former advisor in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked widespread controversy on Twitter after he spoke about the return of the Arab Spring to...

Egyptian Senate member, Bahaa Eddin Abu Shaqqa, called for a legal system to govern the work of Egyptian expatriates including collecting fees from them as a contribution to the state....

The United States' Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin today arrived in Iraq on an unannounced visit to discuss continued defence cooperation and to reaffirm Washington's partnership with Baghdad. After beginning...

British Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, said a new Bill that will be brought to the House of Commons on Tuesday will "stop the boats" carrying migrants across the Channel,...

The African Union has postponed a conference that was scheduled to take place in Tunisia this month amid mounting criticism of a government crackdown on migrants from sub-Saharan Africa,...

Archaeologists have found a smiling sphinx and a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt. The sphinx, which also has two dimples, is thought to represent Roman Emperor...

Algerian Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Said Chengriha, said yesterday that his country prefers an approach based on assisting African countries that suffer problems with security without interfering...

Egypt's security agents have tortured Mohammad Al-Sayyed Al-Morsi to death in the Damietta detention centre. The Arabic language teacher, 52, was detained on 21 February and subjected to systematic...

The Arabic hashtag "Leave Sisi" has topped the list of trends on Twitter over the past few days, with Egyptians using the social networking platform to call on Abdel...

The World Bank has said it is suspending future work with Tunisia after widespread reports of racist violence. The violence follows a speech made by President Kais Saied in...

Morocco, on Monday, inaugurated the country's first laboratory for medical and industrial use of cannabis, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, the Cooperative Bio Cannat said the lab...

The head of Libya's High Council of State (HCS) said, Monday, the assembly has not rejected a UN initiative for holding the country's stalled elections this year, Anadolu News...

US Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin, in Jordan to begin a three-country Mideast visit, is aiming to reassure key allies of American commitment to the region, despite Washington's recent focus...

Jordan's King has stressed to the United States' Defence Secretary that increased violence in the Occupied West Bank risks further regional instability, amid speculations of further Israeli settler attacks...