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Experts and professionals from the world of broadcasting in Europe and the Middle East came together on Thursday for a Middle East Monitor-organised seminar in London on the issue...

A panel discussion at the University of London chaired by Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph brought together a range of critical views on the events in Egypt since...

A number of revolutionary groups are slated to hold a massive protest in Tahrir square after the coronation of Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi for president later this month, a spokesperson for...

A Lebanese court yesterday rejected a request from Tunisia to confiscate funds held in a Lebanese bank account that belongs to the wife of Tunisia's ousted president Zine El...

The Turkish news agency Anadolu said in a report Wednesday that unlike past elections where Egyptians impressed the world with their high turnout, they "confused" the world in the...

A statement by the campaign of Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi claimed he garnered 92.9 per cent of votes after counting ballots in 3006 out of 13,900 polling...

The repression that followed the ouster of Mohamed Morsi has severely undermined the fairness of the 2014 presidential elections in Egypt, said the international rights group Human Rights Watch...

I was aware of the fact that I was forbidden from taking any course of action but never that I was forbidden from traveling. When it comes to being...

Armed militants in oil rich Niger Delta yesterday accused Israel of wanting to confront the armed group Boko Haram to free the girls they had detained and which the...

It appears that the calls for boycotting the Egyptian presidential elections found great resonance, larger than expected by its owners. The turnout at the second day of the elections...

The Egyptian presidential election candidate Hamdeen Sabahi did not respond to pressure from his supporters to withdraw from the presidential elections. Instead, he decided to continue his campaign despite...

Egyptian mass media rebuked the Egyptian people on Tuesday for not going out to cast their votes in the presidential election that coup leader Abdul-Fatah Al-Sisi is largely expected...

Tanzania has called for the Comprehensive Framework Agreement signed by upstream Nile basin countries in 2010 and known as the Entebbe Agreement to be reviewed, the Anadolu news agency...

The columnist Mustafa Bakri, editor of Elaosboa journal said: "The presidential candidate, Field Marshal Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, may issue an apology in accepting the presidency after succeeding due to...

Egyptians continued to vote in "limited" numbers in the afternoon of the second day of the presidential elections, while reports showed a distinct lack of young voters, Anadolu news...

A young Tunisian man died after being attacked by a swarm of bees in the town of Sidi Thabet in the Ariana Governorate in northern Tunisia. The Secretary General...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is deeply concerned by the recent developments in Libya, in particular "the growing military mobilisation in and around the capital Tripoli", according to a...

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki called on Tuesday for approving Arabic as the main language for all levels of education in his country, according to the news website Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed....

The head of the militants controlling oil ports in eastern Libya, Ibrahim Jathran, yesterday said he does not recognise the new government headed by Ahmed Meitik, pointing out that...

Pro-coup news anchors were in disbelief as reports came in that few Egyptians were taking part in the elections. As reports came in suggesting that there was little enthusiasm...

There was once a time when we dreamt of being free, when freedom called upon on us with its liberating song and we were hypnotised by the smell of...

"It is only a few steps away…and in front of the whole world you will say it, take the pledge to correct the wrong, you have the ability to...

Libya's newly appointed Prime Minister Ahmed Meitik said that his government will focus on fighting militants, securing the borders and strengthening the army with help from the international community...

A letter signed by international figures has called for a return to genuine democracy in Egypt and a rejection of the current presidential elections. Letter: The current military regime...

The number of detainees since the July 3 military coup in Egypt now exceeds 41,000, according to the latest report by Wiki Thawra. This is considered the highest number...

Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said on Monday that his country is not ready to cooperate with renegade Libyan Major General Khalifa Haftar based on the principle of "non-interference...

Maasoom Rizq, spokesperson of the presidential elections campaign of Hamdeen Sabbahi claimed Monday that Sabbahi obtained higher votes than his sole rival Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi. Rizq cited exit poll...

The Israeli government has begun to advance some of the recommendations of the 2012 controversial pro-settlement Levy report which does not consider the Israeli presence in the West Bank...

Egyptian liberal politician and President of Ghad Al-Thawra Party Ayman Nour dismissed the current presidential elections as "one-sided." Nour, who ran against Mubarak in the 2005 Presidential elections, told...

Why is it that the United States has never experienced a military coup in all of its history despite the fact that weapons are easily attainable and there is...

More than 200 Muslim scholars issued a fatwa on Sunday forbidding participation in the current presidential elections in Egypt. The fatwa has been announced at a press conference in...

President of the Taghyeer Party Bassem Khafagi praised the Brussels and Cairo declarations announced recently to unite the anti-coup front. He called for unity of revolutionary powers vis-à-vis the...