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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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One of Egypt's leading youth activist movements announced on Monday the death of the transitional roadmap that was proposed in the wake of the military coup against the democratically...

One of Egypt's leading youth activist movements announced on Monday the death of the transitional roadmap that was proposed in the wake of the military coup against the democratically...