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An adviser to the Egyptian president has said that the blame for the current tension and unrest in Sinai has to rest with the terms of the peace treaty...
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The Egyptian ambassador to Palestine, Yasser Othman, confirmed on Monday that Egypt's intention to lift the Gaza siege completely is still on the new President's agenda. "It is an...
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, gave a warm welcome on Friday to a South African solidarity delegation, led by Waleed al-Sa'di from Durban. The...
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Egyptian political parties and groups have signed a document renouncing violence, a move called for by the authorities at Al-Azhar Mosque and University during a meeting they sponsored on...
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Malaysia's Prime Minister, Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib, began a "historic" visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and called on prime ministers of other Muslim countries...
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The former Egyptian public prosecutor, Abdul-Majid Mahmoud, hampered the trials of officials from the ousted regime when they were charged over the killing of protestors and financial corruption, AP...
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The Israeli media has launched a wave of negative reports on the Egyptian economy. Business newspaper Calcalist ran a lengthy report on Tuesday stating that anxiety about the economy...
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Colonel Ahmed Mohamed Ali, the Egyptian army official spokesman, denied the veracity of a report posted on the website of the American newspaper, World Tribune. In an item published...
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The upper house of the Egyptian parliament – the Shura Council – adopted on Thursday the amendments of the Constitutional Court on both the electoral law and the political...
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Engineer Hatem Saleh, Egyptian Minister of Commerce and Industry, confirmed that there is political will in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia to push the development of relations between the...
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Talks between the International Monetary Fund and Egypt have ended without an agreement regarding a proposed loan of $4.8 billion to help Cairo deal with its severe economic crisis....
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Hundreds of Egyptian youths affiliated with Islamist parties have placed the Egyptian Media Production Cities (EMPC) under siege in protest at their 'biased-media coverage', several media sources said. A...
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has said that regarding Palestinian internal reconciliation, he "absolutely does not feel that the Egyptian position is closer to Hamas". "If I felt so, I...
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The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza condemned on Thursday the kidnapping of Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula near to the city of Al-Arish. It also issued orders for...
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The Egyptian opposition could not influence Egyptian public opinion even if all secular and liberal parties were united under a single umbrella, USA Today has said. The Salvation Front...
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Major General Abdul Hamid Omran, President Morsi's strategic expert, has said that the government should not wait until June 30th when matters will potentially be chaotic, but to take...
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Human rights activists in Saudi Arabia have confirmed that the Kingdom's security forces have detained the prominent academic Dr Mohsen Al Awaaji. It is believed that his political views,...
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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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Israel's president has expressed serious concerns about the "disastrous returns" of the clear Israeli support for the military coup in Egypt, Israeli radio has reported. Shimon Peres also expressed...
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In a statement sent on Thursday to Anadolu News Agency, a group of 56 Saudi Arabian religious scholars have condemned the military overthrow of Egypt's elected president Mohammad Morsi....
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Dr Sadaqa bin Yahya, the political adviser to the King of Saudi Arabia and a member of the Saudi Shura Council, called on Egypt, in an interview with Al-Jazeera,...
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Qatari Foreign Minister, Khalid al-Atiyya, called for the release of all political prisoners in Egypt to facilitate a solution to the current political crisis. In a meeting broadcast on...
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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Egyptian army should be allowed to restore stability to Egypt to prevent the deterioration of Egypt's situation into something similar...
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A recent Israeli study accused the deposed Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, of planning to annul the Camp David peace Accords signed in 1978 between Egypt and Israel. The study...
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Sources allegedly "close" to the Saudi royal family have claimed that a number of princes in the kingdom are "upset" at the government's support for the coup in Egypt....
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Israeli officials and experts are expressing disappointment over Washington's decision to reduce military aid to Egypt in response to the events that followed the ousting of Egypt's first freely...
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A Qatari academic has made a personal appeal to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to intervene in an attempt to ease the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Dr. Mohammed Mesfer,...
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The Voice of Russia recently aired an interview with Hugh Miles, an investigative journalist specialising in Middle East affairs who argues that while Egypt is currently experiencing a state...
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The head of the Islamic movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, said on Wednesday that the relationship between the Israeli occupation and the leaders of the military coup in...
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The United Arab Emirates signed an aid agreement with Egypt on Saturday bringing its total support to the Egyptian economy since the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi up to...
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According to Israel's national security advisor Yaakov Amidror, Egypt's military coup led by General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi against the legitimate President Mohammed Morsi has thwarted the rise of Islamic...
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A former aide has told the BBC that just days before the military coup, ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, predicted that he could have been "murdered." Mohamed Hadara said...
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