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Free Gaza activists are being prevented by the Egyptian authorities from travelling to El-Arish, from where they had hoped to go to Gaza through the Rafah crossing on the...

A joint Egyptian-Palestinian Committee for Supporting Arab Prisoners in Israeli Jails has been launched at a ceremony in Cairo. The new group will be active in defending the rights...

The spokesperson of Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stressed the need to achieve internationalisation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has demanded that Israel join the treaty...

The Israeli Ambassador to Egypt, Yitzhak Levanon, has recently sent a telegram to the Israeli Foreign Ministry complaining of being given 'the cold shoulder' by senior officials in the...

During a meeting at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo yesterday , information ministers from various Arab states discussed a number of media-related issues. At the top...

Mass numbers of Egyptian anti-coup protesters took to the streets in almost every Egyptian governorate on Friday despite the continuing crackdown against them, which on Friday resulted in one...

On Wednesday Germany's foreign minister warned its citizens against travelling to several locations in Egypt, especially the tourism areas overlooking the Red Sea. In a statement, the ministry said...

From his first days in office, President Barack Obama has sought to reassure the Muslim world that the "change doctrine" he brought to the White House supports issues concerning...

By Yvonne Ridley I have never met Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit but he thinks that I am a very bad European; that's me and 1400 other peace...

Have you noticed how Washington has quietly stopped trying to "freeze settlement activities" – a Palestinian precondition for the resumption of peace negotiations – after the Obama administration found...