The Secretary-General of the Arab League has left Cairo for an international tour in order to drum up support for the military coup in Egypt and try to convince...
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News On July 7, London-based newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat quoted its correspondent from Ramallah as saying that the head of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, Avigdor Lieberman, who is...
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News The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza has announced the suspension of its school construction programme. Work on 39 new schools has been stopped due to the...
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News The Kuwaiti lawyer Abdallah Ibrahim Al Kandary has filed an administrative lawsuit with an urgent request to stop the implementation of the Cabinet Council's decision to grant Egypt $4...
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News Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Egypt's interim president, Adly Mansour, to ensure that an impartial investigation of police and military officers is conducted regarding the killing of...
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News The government in Tunisia has arrested three of its own citizens and two people from the UAE on the grounds that they appear to have been creating conditions for...
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News Israeli officials said on Tuesday that the country has reinforced its missile defence system near its southern border with Egypt to counter possible attacks by 'Islamist terrorists' who are...
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News Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman has said that the blood of the Egyptian people rule is extremely cheap in the eyes of the political and media elites who...
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News An official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza has noted the decline in the number of people crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, creating what he...
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News MEMO EXCLUSIVE The United Arab Emirates has sent Foreign Minister Abdullah Ben Zayed to the US to seek an urgent meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry because the...
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News Yemeni activist and Noble Peace laureate, Tawakkol Karman, has said that dispersing the Egyptian protests forcibly would lead to a new, full revolution against the military rule. Writing on...
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News Security sources said that Egyptian security forces killed a senior editor in state Al-Ahram newspaper Tamer abdul-Ra'ouf at a military checkpoint near the city of Damanhour on Monday night....
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News News websites reported that the daughter of Dubai's ruler resented the United Arab Emirates continued support of the Egyptian army's suppression of supporters of the deposed President Mohamed Morsi....
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News Leaked records of the interrogation of the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, reveal that he has been insulted and assaulted by police since his arrest on...
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News Because of the severe shortage of fuel and electricity in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry is warning of the possibility of a cessation in its healthcare services...
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News Egypt's Minister of Defence has ruled out a return of the army to the streets in a military coup against President Mohamed Morsi. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi dismissed the calls...
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News The Muslim Brotherhood will protect the movement's offices across Egypt using its own members during the June 30 demonstrations by political opponents. Gamal Heshmat of the Freedom and Justice...
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News More than 30 revolutionary, youth, political and Islamist parties are holding a mass rally today, Friday, under the banner of "No to violence". The event is being held at...
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News A member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has said that the coup against Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi "has already started". Benjamin Ben-Eliezer added that he thinks "civil war...
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News Egypt's president is ready to sacrifice himself to defend his constitutional legitimacy. Mohammed Morsi told television viewers on Tuesday night that "respect for legitimacy is the sole guarantee to...
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News President Mohammed Morsi has called on opposition leaders to start a dialogue and let him know what their political aspirations and vision are. In a statement on Monday, the...
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News To mark his first anniversary as Egyptian president, on Wednesday evening Mohamed Morsi delivered a long speech to the Egyptian nation. The first message of Morsi's speech was directed...
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News Deputy Chief of the Freedom and Justice party Esam El-Erian said on Thursday that Egyptians are worried about political division, media polarisation and an increasing crisis in living standards....
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News Veteran Egyptian legal expert Tariq al-Bishri has expressed his opinion that the army carried out a military coup against an elected president and a constitution adopted by the nation,...
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News This morning the Egyptian authorities closed Al Quds and Yarmuk TV stations on Nile Sat as they begun direct coverage of today's rally in Rabi'ah Adawiya Square in Cairo....
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News The former head of Israel's National Security Council, Giora Eiland, said on Wednesday that the events in Egypt and Syria bode well for the Zionist state. Major General Eiland...
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News After the ousting of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday night, the chief of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement, Rashid al-Ghanouchi, ruled out a replication of the Egyptian scenario in Tunis....
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News Reports from human rights organisations have revealed that the cases of sexual harassment and rape in Tahrir Square – where opposition supporters staged a sit-in – reached 100. According...
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News The de facto government of Egypt has arrested President Mohamed Morsi and closed down at least seven satellite television stations, arresting their staff in the process. It is believed...
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News Oil prices in the Asian markets rose sharply on Wednesday because of the ongoing unrest in Egypt, Aljazeera.net has reported. Brent Crude prices rose for a number of reasons,...
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News The Egyptian health ministry has revealed that 16 supporters of President Mohammed Morsi have been killed in attacks by opposition protesters in the Cairo suburb of Giza. More than...
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News The leader of Tunisia's Al-Nahda Party has called on anti-coup protesters in Egypt to stand up for their rights and reject the removal of President Mohamed Morsi. Shaikh Rashid...
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