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A photograph of ousted Egyptian parliamentary speaker and head of Egypt’s Freedom and Justice party Sa’d Al-Katatni taken during a court hearing yesterday and showing him looking pale and...

A senior Palestinian official in Gaza yesterday denied Cairo’s claims that the Egyptian army undermined an attempted infiltration of 14 Palestinians from Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula, Quds Press...

Jordan intends to export surplus gas to Egypt through the same gas pipeline Amman used to import gas from Egypt, a senior official revealed. In response to a question...

The owner of the Russian airline which crashed in Sinai, Egypt, said that the company is planning to demand compensation. According to the Russian news agency TASS, Metrojet's owner...

The Egyptian government said yesterday that it is not a party in the gas conflict with Israel. In a press release, Cabinet spokesman Hossam Al-Qawish said that the Egyptian...

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi confirmed yesterday his country’s complete support for Iraq in its war against “terrorism”. Egyptian National Security Advisor Faiza Abou El-Naga passed on Al-Sisi’s message...

The Egyptian army on Monday announced that it had destroyed the entrances of a number of cross-border tunnels in an ongoing crackdown on a network of subterranean passages linking...

When Egypt decided to open the Rafah border crossing which separates it from Gaza for two days, December 3 and 4, a sense of guarded relief was felt in...

The state-owned Israeli electric company said yesterday that Egypt would pay $1.76 billion in compensation for halting natural gas exports, Al-Khaleejonline.net reported. In a statement, Israel Electric Corp. said...

Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza said yesterday that more than 25,000 Palestinians in Gaza urgently need to enter Egypt through the Rafah Crossing for humanitarian reasons, Arabi21 reported. Speaking...

Former Tunisian President Moncef El-Marzouki is to establish a new political party which would include several “important” figures, Adnan Monassar, senior leader in Al-Marzouki's Citizen People Movement told Al-Araby...

Egypt received the most aid from the UAE between 1971 and 2014, official Emirati data revealed yesterday. According to the data issued by the Ministry of International Cooperation and...

The farcical play known as the parliamentary elections ended yesterday. Most of the Egyptian masses did not attend it, as the majority of them boycotted it, except for the...

Early on in the third millennium, Egyptian energy experts had warned their government of the consequences of continuing the strategy of exporting oil and natural gas for reasons associated...

Egyptian president Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi issued a resolution yesterday that allows the Armed Forces to establish companies with national or foreign capital. Resolution 446 of 2015 determines the rules...

Amnesty International yesterday launched an awareness campaign aimed at ending violence against women in Tunisia. Country director Lotfi Azzouz said at a press conference that the campaign aims to...

Mohamed Badie had been sentenced to death in April for plotting to 'sow chaos' following Egypt's 2013 military coup CAIRO (AA) – An Egyptian court on Thursday overturned death...

An Egyptian court yesterday acquitted Mubarak-era Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and indicted Muslim Brotherhood leaders, Palestinian Safa news agency reported. The Court of Cassation accepted Nazif’s appeal regarding his...

Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah Crossing yesterday for two days, after it had been closed for 100 days, Palestinian Al-Resalah newspaper reported. A Palestinian official told Al-Resalah that only...

Saudi Arabia refused a UAE offer to send Colombian mercenaries to Yemen, Arabi21 reported an informed Saudi official as saying yesterday. The official said that the UAE offer came...

Egyptians on Tuesday and Wednesday cast ballots in nearly half of the country’s 27 provinces in a final parliamentary runoff vote amid widespread reports of vote-buying. Voter turnout on...

The head of Strong Egypt Party Abdul-Monem Abul-Fotouh announced yesterday the release of his driver after “36 hours of harsh torture” by Egyptian authorities, Rassd.com reported. Abul-Fotouh said that...

A Libyan official from the country’s internationally recognised government said on Monday that Daesh is trying to expand towards the eastern city of Ajdabiya, noting that his administration’s forces...

November 29 marked International Day of Women Human Rights Defenders, here MEMO remembers some of the female activists who have paid heavily this year for their dedication to human...

“Moshe Dayan did not do to Egypt what the Muslim Brotherhood and the Supreme Guide’s gang did to it.” Someone who is said to be the minister of culture...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights revealed that 50 detainees in Egyptian prisons could die as a result of medical negligence and should be released to receive the necessary...

UN Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy recommended on Monday to set a timeframe to lift the US sanctions imposed on Sudan. The official is tasked with looking at the negative...

Head of the Strong Egypt party Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh on Sunday called on the Egyptian security services to reveal the whereabouts of his driver, alamatonline.net reported. Aboul-Fotouh said that...

Representatives of Algeria’s opposition parties yesterday protested inside parliament against a new finance bill which will increase the prices of domestic gasoline, diesel, gas and electricity as part of...

Egyptian Trade and Industry Minister Tareq Qabil told Russia that his country is ready to supply the products previously provided by Turkey, Palestine’s Al-Resalah newspaper reported. In a statement,...

Egypt’s Coptic Church has refused claims of normalising ties with Israel and affirmed that Pope Tawadros II did not meet with any Israeli officials during his brief visit to...

Amidst the public uproar in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, commentators have been quick to hint at a possible shift in Daesh’s strategy. The attacks in Egypt, Beirut...