The head of the Renaissance Party in Tunisia's governing coalition, Rachid Al-Ghanouchi, considers what is happening in Egypt including the dismissal of the former President Mohammad Morsi a "democratic...
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News Dr Abdullah Al-Ashaal, a law professor at the American University, said that Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's call for Egyptians to demonstrate could lead Egypt into a cycle of violence and...
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News Cairo, July 24, 2013) As the Egyptian people were waiting for the coup leaders to regret the crimes they committed against the nation and its people (confiscating popular will...
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News Libya's Mufti Sheikh Al-Sadeq al-Gharyani has called what happened in Egypt a "coup on legitimacy" as a president, who was chosen through elections monitored and respected by international parties,...
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News In response to General Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi's call for authorisation to wipe out "terrorism," the leader of the third field army, Brigadier Usama Askar, said that his brigade would not...
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News Al-Jazeera network has accused the Egyptian authorities of enforcing strict measures on their employees in Egypt and denied siding with Islamists in its coverage of the Egyptian crisis. Egyptian...
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News The Egyptian army has dismissed the son of detained head of Al-Wasat Party, Abul Ela Madi, for security reasons. Ahmed Abul Ela wrote on his Facebook wall that, "the...
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News In his last tweet before his detention, former parliamentarian Essam Sultan reflected on the past as he wrote about the American and British occupations who had their own ways...
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News Two prominent anti-coup politicians have been arrested by the interim authorities in Egypt. Former parliamentarian Essam Sultan and Abul Ela Madi were detained, it is believed, for articulating their...
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News In the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Compassionate We have monitored the reactions to our first statement; some hailed it, some were critical and some were...
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News Prominent writer and journalist Wael Qandil said on Saturday that Egypt is living through a period of time that could be called "the stage of eliminating the effects of...
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News The number of pro-Morsi protesters in Al-Nahda Square has been increasing since the horrific news of the massacre near Rabaa Al-Adawiyya Square. Protesters say that this is a response...
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News Egypt's former justice minister, Counsellor Ahmed Mekky, has claimed that handing over power to Mohammed Morsi in January 2012 was "just for show" and that there was a "premeditated...
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News A senior official of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Ali Belhadj, has called on the Egyptian and Tunisian leaders to "learn from the Algerian experience and prevent it from...
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News Amnesty International has criticised the decision by the military appointed government in Egypt to forcibly disperse pro-Morsi sit-ins from Rabaa Al-Adawiyya, Al-Nahda and other Egyptians squares. The organisation, warned...
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News The military coup has resulted in a massive loss to the Egyptian economy estimated at about 120 billion Egyptian pounds (around £11.5 billion/ $17.1 billion), economic experts have calculated....
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News South Africa's Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation has confirmed the government's rejection of what has taken place in Egypt recently, including the ouster of the elected president and...
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News Egypt's Interior Ministry has announced that Attorney General Hisham Barakat is due to issue the order to disperse the pro-Morsi protest in Cairo "within hours". The ministry released the...
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News EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton completed a two-hour visit to the deposed Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, on Monday afternoon at an unknown location. Ashton, who met Egyptian...
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News Egyptian coup leader general Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's last interview with the Washington Post reveals his sense of self-importance, a leading strategy analyst has claimed. "Clearly," says Major General Abdul...
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News The Deputy Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has refused to meet an international delegation in his prison cell to discuss possible solutions for the current political deadlock in Egypt....
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News In one of the largest demonstrations witnessed in Tunisia since 2011, tens of thousands marched on the capital, Tunis, on Saturday in support of the Islamist-led government. In a...
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News Egypt's post-coup interim government is borrowing at record high levels according to figures revealed by the Ministry of Finance in Cairo. In July alone, treasury bills amounting to 81.5...
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News A spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Badr Abdel Atti, has admitted that the country's foreign minister, Nabil Fahmi, had misquoted an Amnesty International report. He described the incident...
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News Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Laureate, Tawakkul Karman, said that she had received several death threats from supporters of the Egyptian coup and pro-coup journalists, prior to her visit...
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News The interim government in Egypt has opened investigations into 75 judges who refused to cooperate with the military coup and the removal of freely-elected President Mohammed Morsi. The presiding...
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News A prominent leader of the Freedom and Justice party, Mohamed al-Beltaji, has called for all Egyptians to take to the streets in support of the martyrs and wounded. Al-Beltaji...
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News Mohamed Maher Aqel, an Al-Jazeera correspondent in Cairo, has said that ambulances transporting the martyrs and the injured have exploited the absence of organisation committees at the entrances and...
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News Egyptian security forces have launched an operation to disperse pro-Morsi sits in at Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares in Cairo and Giza. Protesters have said that the security forces...
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News A senior Egyptian politician has condemned coup leaders for what he describes as the shameful allegations against ousted President Mohammed Morsi. "It is illogical to accuse the president of...
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News A recent field study indicates that the number of Egyptians opposed to the overthrow of Dr Mohammed Morsi as President has risen to 69 per cent. Only around 25...
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News Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in al-Siwees governorate protesting against the massacres in Rabaa al-Adawiyya and al-Nahda Squares. The protesters closed the streets leading to...
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