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The Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt (FJP) and lawyers acting on behalf of the 529 Defendants who were sentenced to death in Egypt on 24 March 2014 have...

The Egyptian ministers of tourism and interior issued a joint decision to tighten security measures around touristic trips following recent bombings that hit the country. The decision obliges the...

The former Egyptian first lady Susan Mubarak has agreed to a $1 million offer to appear on Al-Nahar TV channel, Kuwait's Al-Watan newspaper reported. The paper quoted informed sources...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir announced on Sunday his government's willingness to allow armed forces to join a national dialogue conference if they provide sufficient guarantees, saying that resolving Sudan's...

Clashes between Amazigh (Berbers) and Arab residents of Al-Shoba and Haj-Masood neighbourhoods in the Algerian province of Ghardaia renewed on Sunday, tens of deaths and injuries were reported. Coordinator...

The following is a translation of a video clip from the TV programme of pro-coup journalist Mustafa Bakri, known for his close links with the military coup leader Abdel...

The International Business Times mentioned in a report Thursday that the Egyptian military after the July 3 coup has fully controlled the country's economy, including the vital Suez Canal...

The following is translation of video clip in which the Egyptian pro-coup Anchor Al-Ghaiti salutes Saudis for pressuring UK and USA to support the coup in his programme on...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is planning to amend the Constitution if he wins the fourth presidential elections due to be held on April 17, Algerian newspaper Al-Nahar said on...

The chairman of Cairo Criminal Court Judge Ahmad Sabry decided to forbid the media from attending Sunday's witness-hearing sessions in Itihadiya case "to protect national security". The session will...

he Egyptian Alliance for Supporting Legitimacy and Opposing the Coup (aka Anti-Coup Alliance) accused the current regime of perpetrating the latest Cairo University bombings. In a statement Saturday, the...

Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary General Farhan Haq said on Friday that the international organisation is waiting to see how Egypt would deal with the issue of death...

Chad said on Sunday that the remarks of the UN Human Rights Commission Spokesman Rupert Colville over killings carried out by its soldiers in a market in Central Africa...

Mohammad Ali Bishr, Minister of Local Development during the rule of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, denied reports that he was assigned by the Global Organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood...

The Moroccan Minister of State, Mohammed Yazghi, has denied the recent allegations published in Algerian newspapers about a Moroccan security plan to send dozens of Moroccans into Algeria to...

Egyptian lawyer Montasser Al-Zayat, who is the chairperson of the Moderation Forum for Thought and Culture, has revealed that the security services cancelled an intellectual forum that was scheduled...

A court in Tunisia sentenced on Thursday five senior security officials at the Interior Ministry to 15 years in prison over their alleged involvement in a major corruption case....

The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters will consider on Saturday a claim filed by advocate Ashraf Saed demanding the April 6 movement be banned. Saed demanded Egypt's interim President...

At least 37 countries will meet to consider freezing Egypt's membership to the United Nations General Assembly in response to its human rights violations and the United Nations' Charter...

South African's position on the military government of Egypt is unchanged in spite of recent reports which indicate a government delegation met with the military regime in Egypt. The...

The former Egyptian Mufti Sheikh Ali Gomaa, famous for his incitement to kill anti-coup protesters, held the Muslim Brotherhood responsible for the bombings that hit Nahda Square in Giza...

Egypt's ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak advised Egyptians to elect Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi as president of the country. In an interview with the pro-coup newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm Wednesday, Mubarak told...

The Muslim Brotherhood condemned the bombing that took place Wednesday at Cairo's Nahda square, calling for a swift investigation. The Nahda square bombing claimed the life of one senior...

The so-called "Ajnad Masr" group announced its responsibility for the three bombings that targeted police officers outside Cairo University Wednesday, killing one senior officer and injuring five others. In...

There has been a 27 per cent reduction in tourist numbers in Egypt between February 2013 and the same period in 2014, the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilisation...

Tension has resurfaced between Algeria and Morocco on the eve of US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to the region, after an Algerian security report was leaked warning...

The results of the Turkish elections, where the Justice and Development Party won, confirm support for the Arab Spring and the Palestinian cause, Tunisia's Ennahda Party leader Rashid Ghannouchi...

Al-Jazeera should be listed as an organisation which sponsors terrorism, Egyptian Minister of Religious Affairs Mohammed Mokhtar Jomaa said yesterday. Jomaa said the TV network should be blacklisted because...

The Public Prosecution Service in east Cairo started probes in to a complaint filed against potential presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi. Anti-coup mass media reported the incident saying: "At last,...

Islamist Libyan leader and head of Al-Watan Party Abdul-Hakim Belhaj said on Tuesday that his party would use weapons to protect the February revolution, Anadolu news agency reported. "We...

Below is the press statement distributed by ITN Solicitors on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood. It has been reported that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has ordered...

The Supreme Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie has accused the former Egyptian army commander and presidency candidate Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of being a "military tyrant" and...